November 9, 1941 (Sunday)

HAS EDNA GONE HUNTING?

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Edna did make a small note at the top of the page on this day. I can't quite make out her writing but I think the last two words are "at church." If you can decipher the first two words please comment and let me know what you think she wrote.

My dad has a supposition about why Edna went silent in her journal for several days.

"It is November. My grandparents used to go on hunting trips in November."

That would stand to reason. Just a couple of days earlier on November 7, Edna made note of a trip North.

Henry + I and Alex and Edwina went to Shirley [Goffeys ?] this evening to see if he is planning to go North with us but he can't tell til next week for sure.

So, a trip was on the horizon but her comment that their potential traveling companion wouldn't be able to let them know until next week makes me think that the trip is still a few days off.

Perhaps Edna was busy prepping for the trip and that is why she isn't keeping up with her journal at the moment. It will be November 25 before she records details about her daily activities again.

In other journals, Edna faithfully records details of their trips north. She must have accidentally left her diary behind when they did depart on their hunting trip. I imagine, if that was the case, that she was a bit perturbed with herself for doing so.

November 8, 1941 (Saturday)

BLANK PAGES

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Life and work have kept me from posting the pages from Edna's journal since August. Just when I get started again, Edna goes on hiatus. November 8, 1941 begins a long span of empty pages in her journal. Life and work must be keeping her from writing in her journal.

I will post the blank pages as each day happens because they tell a story, too. But, I will also use this time to get caught up with the days I missed from August through now.

November 7, 1941 (Friday)

WINTER ARRIVES IN EARNEST

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Well winter is here

in earnest. 4 in of

snow on ground and still

snowing by spells to -

night.

Henry + I and Alex

and Edwina went to

Shirley [Goffeys ?] this evening

to see if he is planning

to go North with us

but he can't tell til next

week for sure.

Henry went on Right of

Way to-day,

Mrs. Lewis Boulard

died this after noon.

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Edith (Warner) Boulard was not yet ten years old when she moved from New York to Michigan in 1865 with her parents. At the time of their arrival, Bowne Township was not much older than Edith herself. According to her obituary her family settled "in what was at that time mostly virgin forest."

Edith married Lewis Boulard on February 22, 1876, one day after her 19th birthday. Lewis had just turned 21 earlier that same month. Together they had three children; Percy, Jesse and Ethel.

On March 3, 1931, ten years prior to her death, Edith's husband Lewis passed away. Edith and Lewis are buried next to one another in the cemetery in Bowne Center.