List,
I have my grandmother's, Lenora (Nora Williams) Hiatt, school autograph book dated
from 1891-1893. At that time, friends wrote poems when they signed these autograph books.
An example would be: "Remember me early, remember me late, remember me ever your old
school mate". My grandmother would have been 13 years of age in 1891 but I do not
know the name of the school. She was living in Lynn, Randolph Co., IN with her mother,
Nancy Priscilla (Chamness) Williams, Downing, Dailey, (Nancy married three times), her
step-father Lewis Irvin dailey, half-brother Raymond Dailey, brother Charles Williams and
sister Grace Williams.
The following, without the poems, are the signers with dates and places, when available.
Hope this will help some people to place their ancestors in ths time frame. I am listing
in order in which they are in the book and as written. Much of the writing is very
faint.
1. Oct. 1891 - Nellie C. Legelley (sp)
2. January 22, (18)92 - Remember: To be good is the mother of to do good., Your friend
and teacher,
P. T. McLellan
3. Jan. 31, 1892 - Ava Beard
4. Bessie Baxter
5. March 16, (18)92 - Maurie(sp) Johnson
6. Lynn, Ind. - Grace S. Horn
7. March 17, (18)92 - Elsie Chenoweth, Lynn, Ind.
8. Lynn, Ind., Jan. 18, 1892 - Rolla Lewis
9. Lynn, Indiana, March 17, 1892 - Mary Roberts
10. Winchester, Ind. Oct. 13, 189(?) - Lela Kimbero (sp)
11. Lynn, Ind. January 16, 1892 - Mary S(unreadable)
12. Winchester, Ind. - Bess G.
13. Feb. 3, 1893 - May Blatt - Lynn, Ind.
14. Lynn, Ind. 8-19-1893 - C. Williams (possibly brother Charles)
15. Remember that as ye sow also will you reap. Try to sow good seed every day. I reap a
rich reward in
Heaven is the wish of Minnie, your Teacher Boul-(unreadable). Probably Minnie
Bowen.
16. September 189(?) - Olive E. Ludy (sp), Winchester, Ind. Randolph Co.
17. March 17th, 1892 - Nellie Starkims (sp)
18. July 9, 189(?) - Deane Kendall
19. Jan. 22, 1892 - Lora Woody
20. Oct. 24, 1891 - Stella Pierce
21. Lynn, Ind. Winchester, Ind. October 16, 1891 - (Grace) (?), Miss Lenora Williams,
Minnie Bowen (sp)
From your Teacher
22. Your school mate to my sister, Grace Williams
Linda Hiatt Fullerton