Author: Dave Robison

[NOTICE: Clem seems to have run the 17th and 18th together here. He crossed out the “8” and overwrote it with a “7”. The story from the previous page seems to continue here, so it seems that was his intent. BUT! Since I’m transcribing, WYSIWYG….In other words, What You See Is What You Get!] We…
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Monday, February 17, 1913 “Lest We Forget” Got up at 6:30 and had breakfast weather was fine and mild we started for Entwistle After we had started about an hour it started to snow and we push the car for a mile or two Arr. at Entwistle at 4:30 20 miles and stayed with Mr…
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[REMINDER: I try to “transcribe” the diary. That means you’ll see it the exact way Clem wrote it, misspelled words, little to no punctuation, etc. Hope you find it interesting!] Sunday, February 16, 1913 “Lest We Forget” We got up at 8 oc and all went to breakfast. I came back to the car Cullerne…
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I’ve got 7 or 8 days of the diary scanned and ready to be transcribed and uploaded. But I also want to mention that I’ve been contacted by no less than 3 “new” cousins this week. All on the ROBISON, ROBINSON, ROBERTSON line and all seem to be interested in family research. But I’m so…
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Just a couple of days ago, I stumbled across Jeffrey Robison’s very elaborate, well structured and highly researched website at which strangely included many of my direct paternal ancetsors AND a link to my own maternal link to Mayflower passenger, John Howland. Wow! I quickly fired off some grave stone photos and offered to contribute…
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Transcribing “Lest We Forget” takes on a new meaning! I forgot!! I know it’s the 17th and I’ve already missed the 16th and I’ll probably miss the 18th! But, I’m with my sister in Upstate New York. Her husband is in the hospital and I wanted to spend a few days with her while everything…
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Thanks, Greg Lovelace! Greg did the research that I should have done… Namely, he was able to find a Wikipedia article regarding a railroad “spreader” that Clem was talking about in a few of his diary entries. Here’s the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreader_(railroad) Thanks again Greg!

I’ll have to do the transcription later tonight or tomorrow. I’m on my way to New York to visit with my sister and brither-in-law and it’s getting late! Stay tuned! Sunday, February 15, 2013 Finally! I’ve got a few minutes to transcribe the earlier post… Here it is: Saturday, February 15, 1913 “Lest We Forget”…
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Friday, February 14, 1913 “Lest We Forget” We got up at 6 Ocl. to met the 8 ocl. train to get the spreader Cullerne was agraid that he might miss the train and looose the spreader because Starry called him down about the work. We left the north yards at 9:30 am and ran to…
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Thursday, February 13, 1913 “Lest We Forget” We went down to Mr Crommons office to see if Starry would come in on the train but he did not show up. We went down to the fraching [?] plant and had dinner and stoke the levels we ran to the north yards they came back to…
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