April 12, 2024
1902 Handwritten Diary, Beers, Walton NY- Passes away, Dau Writes of His Death
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The author did not write his name in this diary, but after some detective work and research, I learned that his name was Chester Beers. He lived with his wife Ida and 15 year old daughter Clara in Walton, Delaware County, NY. Mr Beers was a farmer and employed a hired hand to do most of the heavy labor. One of these was Will Anderson, who is listed in the census as living on the farm, and who Mr Beers wrote of having in his employ for 7 years. Mr Beers and his family lived a typical turn-of-the-century rural lifestyle. He wrote about his and his family's daily activities in this diary. He wrote of attending the grange meetings, attending social functions such as a show at the school house, weddings, deaths, election day, the phone line going in, working on the highway, the Walton Fair, local fires in which a woman was burned as well as horses, paying 5.00 for his hired hands teeth, trips to town to sell his farm products, paying 7.50 for a course of study in arithmetic. The author loved to fish, and people boarded at his farm in fishing season. Mr Beers had some sort of ties to Brooklyn NY, but I was unable to figure out exactly what his relationship was to the people there that wrote to him. What sets this diary apart from the ordinary farm diary of that era is the fact that Mr Beers passed away after several days of illness on
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