Ruth Campbell Smith 1925-27 Diaries

My grandmother, Ruth Campbell Smith (1892 - 1972) kept a diary for many years. I am posting her entries from 1925 - 1927 in this blog. Her family included sons Dale (1916 - 2004), Dick (1918 - 1971), Albert (1920 - 1979), and Ned (1923 - 1976), and later daughters Marjorie (1925 - 2010) and Eleanor (1929 - 2011). Her husband was Gilbert (1889 - 1937) and they lived in Indianapolis. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of what it was like to be a housewife and mother in the 1920's.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Wednesday, June 22, 1927

Wednesday, June 22, 1927
Fair, warm

Hung clothes out then called Mama to make arrangements. Uncle Jim came too and had his third stroke of paralysis last night at 3. Still alive but unconscious. Beulah and the kids came over here.

(Aunt Marjorie wrote, "Beulah was Andrew's wife and Uncle Jim must have been his father, grandmother's brother. Andrew was Mother's favortie cousin, of her 31 cousins.)