April 6, 1980 Aunt Estelle wrote

1980  Sunday  Fair to Cloudy.  We went to church.  Janice & Wendi were home.  Ruth & Sandra and Hargus & Thelma visited this eve. 

Footnote:  Janice is her daughter and Wendi is her granddaughter.  Ruth is her sister-in-law, married to Everette who is Estelle's youngest brother.  Sandra is their daughter.  They live nearby. 


Info:  I have decided to go back to writing just the one year at a time.  I think it is confusing and hard to follow when I write two years at the same time.   I will get more information from the birth and death book and record that.   I also have a couple of Aunt Lucy's journals that Norma gave me, so I will get things out of those books too.   Hope that is OK with everyone who takes the time to read. 

From the birth, marriage and death journal:

 March 14, 1977 Howard Ely died in Knoxville (76 years old in June)  Howard married Elsie Moore and had Carol Ann.  She had Edie & Stephen.  Howard married Callie Reasor & was divorced from her after 25 years.

March 14, 1966    Frank, Grace, Burl & G.F. McElroy moved off the ridge down the road.  Sold out to Edgar Bartley.  Mrs. McElroy died Feb. 2, 1969.  Burl had been gone 2 years.  Mr. McElroy died Sept. 24, 1971.  1974, May 8 Burl died in New Orleans. 

March 14, 1984 George Isaac aged 75 died in Roanoke
March 14, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Colliers house burned.  A. T. parents
March 14, 1985  Radious Reasor Short was dead in bed at 4:00 o'clock this morning.  73 years .  Walter Short remarried Sept. 1989 ( I can't tell in the book if it is 1989 or another year.)   Anyway, Nov. 18, 1989 Walter short died in Ky. at cousins with anurasim.