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Hammer & claw. Hatchet.
Paid for it with his wheat money -
First lived in tent - then stay out partly wind lodge & then built house -
Cut wood in Winter - built house in Spring - brought window and doors - door $1.50 window 50 cents. bought in Decatur.

1 corn Cash year ^[[for Gov't.]] now a calf-
6 chicken - bought a hen. 
2 pigs - Sold corn to get them.
Is giving a calf for corn - 
Has bedstead ^[[$3.50]] - one chair - 
Wife helped & helps - 
Lost four children - 
3 died of measels - in one day - 
2 yrs - 4 - and a baby - 7 mos old,