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.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Sunday, November 13, 1927

Sunday, November, 13, 1927
Fair – warmer

The boys went to Sunday school. I went to church. Daddy stayed home and kept Marjorie. She coughed so bad last night. After dinner we sent the boys to the show and took Marjorie and went to see Anna’s new baby, Wilma Jean.

(Apparently they didn't think Marjorie was contagious!)

2 comments:

trần minh an5:05 AM, November 13, 2008
happy to you !!!
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Eleanor9:29 AM, November 13, 2008
Marjorie was sick & took her to see a brand new baby? And she was a doctors daughter. Maybe they didn,t quite understand how germs passed around. We would have asked her not to come
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