Comments on: Without Purse or Scrip in Texas: 26 August – 10 September 1901

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:59:27 +0000

Although the Holmans were perverting Baptists.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:58:48 +0000

Sleeping three in a bed. My goodness.

After the civil war, but definitely the same language. Sigh. He would have been right at home with my Holman ancestors, who were using that word as a casual reference in the late 1920s.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:35:24 +0000

New York, Texas! Well, I’ll be darned!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:46:15 +0000

Ardis, I fell behind on reading this series a few weeks ago and have been playing catchup the last few days. I haven’t commented much but wanted to let you know how great this is. I’m constantly amazed at how similar these diary entries read to those of the 18th century Methodist itinerant preachers I’ve been going through lately.

By: Chad Too

Chad Too — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:26:13 +0000

…so of course I had to go back a year in his journal to see where our good Elder was on the fateful day. If I read properly, I think he was in Gum Springs, near present day Longview.

He mentions the wind blowing really hard, followed by rain. That makes perfect sense if he was upwind to the east of the storm center.

By: Chad Too

Chad Too — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:18:39 +0000

It didn’t occur to me until now that this is Elder is serving in the period of the Galveston Hurricane and it’s aftermath; our Elder visiting on the one-year anniversary. I can only imagine what destruction he saw even one year later, and of the tales the Elder Huntsman who actually weathered the storm could tell!