I have an autograph book that was given to my grandmother (b. 2/5/1883) by her mother
(Cynthia K. Close Pebbles Craft) on 12/25/1893. I was reading it again and recognized
some names that have popped up on this mail list. So, I thought I would share some of the
autographs with the list. I am including the actual rememberances because they are so
interesting. I hope you enjoy, even if none of the names are of interest to you. Some
are out of date order because I am listing in the order in the book and I'm using the
spelling and punctuation, correct or incorrect.
As a point of reference, my grandmother graduated from the Indiana Common Schools of
District No. 2 in the School Township of Cass County of Greene on June 21, 1901. Her
diploma was signed by Haney E. Cushman, Samuel M. O'Neal, and Levi J. Bauer.
June 22, 1896
Newberry Ind
It isnt the thing you do Nellie
Its the thing you leave undone
That causes the little heartaches
from the seting of the sun
Yours as ever
A friend
T.J. ?satrim
Newberry Ind
Jan 3rd 1894
Miss Nellie Craft
"Walk as though you had a purpose" I command to you these words.
M.W. Schuh
Newberry Ind. Jan 10, '94
Miss Nellie Craft
May your life be one of "peace happiness and prosperity"
Is the sincere wish of
Your Friend
Carrie Shuck
Newberry Ind
Jan 7th '97
Friend Nellie
Deem it not an idle thing,
A pleasant word to speak,
The face you wear the,
Thoughts you bring,
A heart would heal or break
Ever your friend
Harl
(This might have been Harley Nickless, her first husband, whom she married 12/3/1904,
Bloomfield, Greene, In. Harley died sometime before 1911 when she married my grandfather,
in Colorado)
Newberry Ind Jan 17 1894
Miss Nellie
Honnor and obay your
Father and Mother and you
will reap a reward from
them that will be more prechious
to you through life than silver or gold
Amos Musselman
Newberry Ind
Jan 13, 1897
Friend Nellye
Look not mournfully upon the past
It comes not again
Yours
Lula Quackenbush
Jany 10 1894
Miss Nellie Carft
Your Friend
A.R. Shuh
Compliments and Best Wishes of
Nora Slinkard, Newberry
Lula Tansey, Lyons Ind
Latie Mileworth, Lyons Ind
Maggie Dye, Lyons Ind
Feb 1898
Newberry Ind
Miss Nellie
Do good and you will be good
Flora Musselman
Jan 17, '94
Dear Nellie
Life's ocean lies before you. From it you will glean happiness respect and love or
you will gather dissapointment, contempt and misery. Your own actions will determine
which. Now, which shall you chose?
Sincerely
Will Bridwell
2/12/94
Nellie
That the thorns along your pathway may be few is the wish of your friend and teacher.
Nora L. Mackie
Newberry Ind Jan 16th '94
Nellie:
Be satisfied with doing well and leave others to speak of you as they will.
Your Friend and School-mate
Anna Woodhouse
Newberry Indiana
Jan 6, 1897
Nellie
"Showers it be, it seems to me
Tis only noble to be good
Kind hearts are more than coronets
An simple faith than Norman blood"
Lovingly
Grace Fields
Bloomingfield Indiana
January 17, 1894
Newberry Ind
Feb 7, 1895
Dear Nellie
In after years when
This you see I wonder
What your name will Be
Your fiend and school mate
Alice S.
My Dear Friend Nellie
Remember the bird Remember the nest
Remember the one that you love best
Your friend and school mate
Frank Musselman
Learning is better than silver or gold.
Remember me Jan 17, 1894
Newberry Ind
Dear Classmate,
Kindness is the golden chains by which friendships is bound to gather.
Your frind
Jessie Mathews
Jan 13, 1897
Newberry Ind
Jan 13, 1896
Miss Nellie Craft;
That life is longest if 'tis best;
'Tis ours to work, - to God belongs the rest
He lives most who thinks most,
Feels the noblest and acts the best
May your every step be toward the goal of ideal womanhood.
Your friend
Oscar Dye
The wisest man the world e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.
Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears,
Her noblest work she classes, O-
Her 'prentice hand she tried on man
And then - she made the lasses O-
T.J.S.
Newberry Ind
Friend Nellie
Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.
Yours
Ethel Townsend
Newberry, Indiana
My friend Nellie
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angles.
May your deeds on earth Shine forth as the stars of heaven.
Yours as ever
Ethel Slinkard
January 9, 1896
Newberry, Ind. Mar 26, '94
Sister Nellie:-
May their be first enough clouds in your life; To make a beautiful sunset.
Your Sister
Iva
Newberry, Feb 5 '98
Dear Friend Nellie
How sad to part from those we love
When not prepared to meet above
Your friend
Win Hornbeck
Lyon Ind.
Newberry Ind
Jan 22, 1895
Dear Little Name-sake
Good deeds shine as brightly on earth as the stars in heaven.
Your friend
Nellie Nugent
Newberry Ind.
Friend Nellie
Some may wish you pleasure,
And you may think them wise
My wish for you is better for,
"A home beyond the sky".
Your friend
Homer Faucette
Jan 10, 1897
Newberry Ind, Jan 10, 1896
Dear Friend Nellie;
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant for you to be when he thought of you
first, then I can feel that I have helped to do a noble work.
Sincerely your teacher and friend,
Stephen Slinkard
Every tean is answered by a blossom,
Every sigh with songs and laughter bless
Apple blossoms upon the breezes toss them
April knows her own is content
S.W.S.
(This one and the one above were on the same page and the initials are pretty much the
same, perhaps they were written by the same person.)
Newberry, Ind.,
Nellie -
"Of all sad words of tongue are pen,
The saddest of them it might have been."
Every Yours,
Jewett E. Fawcett
Jan 8, '96
Jan 5th 1896
Nellie
There is a silver lining to the darkest cloud
Your friend
Anna Keith
Newberry Ind.
Nellie
Seek not mornfully upon the pst
It comes not again
Is the sincere wish of your friend
Grace
Newberry
Nellie
Remember the afternoon we wennt sleighriding
Essie Shively
Jan 23 1895
Newberry Ind
Jan 11, 1897
My kind friend
I would that thus, when I shall see
The hour of death draw nigh to me,
Hope, blossoming within my heart,
May look to heaven and I depart.
Bryan
Yours
Estella Armstrong
God is always love
Miss Nellie Craft:
Truth is ever on the scafford, and wrong forever on the throne.
But fear nothing and hope in all things as the Right alone may do securely every hour the
thrones of Ignorance and ancient Night lose somewhat of their long usurped forever.
Yours
Mary T. Owen
Jan 8, 1897
Newberry Indiana
Jan 13, 1897
Dear Friend: -
Remember me when far away,
And only half awake; remember
me on your wedding day,
And send me a piece of cake.
Your friend
Marnie F. Woodhouse
Newberry, Ind.
Dearest Nellye,
When you get old and ugly
As girls always do.
Remember you have a friend,
Thats old and ugly too.
Yours forever,
Isabelle
Jan 8, 1896
Ever Remember
Jack
Newberry Ind.
Friend Nellie
In each life, however lowly,
There are seeds of mighty good.
Still we shrink from souls appealing
With a timid "If we could." -
But God, knows all things
Judgeth the truth is. "If we would."
Ever your friend
Maude E. Fawcette
January 11, 1897
January 8, 1897
Dear Nellie
As jewells incased in a Casket of Gold.
Where the richest of treasures we hide
The finest of thoughts be deep and untold
Like the gems that are under the tide.
Lovingly
Clovis Fawcette
Newberry Indiana
Newberry Ind.
Friend Nellie -
Tomorrow will soon be
to-day for us; if we make
the day we live in now,
the best we can , we need
not fear for the to-morrows.
Your Friend
Ana Sherwood
Newberry Ind.
Nellie: -
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his sypress trees:
Who hopeless lays his dead away.
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play:
Yours
???? Baker
Jan 8 '97
newBerry, Ind
Jan 13, 1897
Dear Nellye,
Remember care dear Nellye
When on this page you look
Remember it was Flora,
Who wrote this in your Book.
Your Friend and School-mate
Flora
Feb 11, 1898
Ever remember.
John