Home Alone

February 7, 1937  We went to church.  Mama and Anna stayed home because Mama did not feel well.  We had a strong south wind with lots of dust.  We were home alone.

Since it was Sunday, Cornelius and his children Mary, John, Henry, and Elmer went to church.  But his wife Margaret was sick and stayed home with little Anna.  Again there was a dust storm that would have blown lots of dust into the house.  They put wet rags around the windows, but the superfine dust still managed to blow into the house.  It drifted like snow along fences and around buildings.  It would have been so discouraging to fight the dust every time the wind blew, and in Meade it blew often.

But most remarkable – they were home alone on a Sunday.  No one came over to visit and they went nowhere.  It was so unusual not to visit that Cornelius had to note it in his diary.  You can almost feel the sadness in his words.