Datebook 1922: Sunday, May 7, 1922

Overcast, cool & breezy. Arose 8:30 A.M. Breakfast etc. To Church & S.S. Dinner. To Robert Hedden's funeral at T & F's undertaking rooms. To Burnt Hills to cemetery. To E.L. To Scotia with R.E.P. To bed 11:15 P.M.

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Robert Hedden was the brother of Jasper Hedden, both of them children of Fanny Closson, sister of Charles Closson and Joseph Hedden, her husband. Jasper was confined to a hospital, as we learned in an earlier diary. Robert never married, as far as I can tell, and it looks like he was only 45 years old when he died. No mention of why he died in Stanford's diary. I could find no record of his burial or a gravestone.

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son and friend. This is the fourth installment of Date Book, covering 1922 (the first three cover 1919-1921). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1922 to January 1, 2016, for instance--with one entry per day.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford.

And this year, because Stanford moves to Boston when he starts his graduate program at Boston University, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1922

Sunday, May 7, 1922

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