MONDAY, October 6. Stop at Daniel Thomas’s; dine at Jacob Thomas’s; visit Solomon Garber’s; and have night meeting in Dayton. Stay all night at Dr. Abraham Sager’s.
TUESDAY, October 7. Attend a love feast at the Old meetinghouse. Stay all night at John Bowman’s above Harrisonburg.
WEDNESDAY, October 8. Go to see my old friend, Joseph Funk, and succeed in bringing about a better state of feeling on his part toward me. He became reconciled. He had been somewhat ruffled in his feelings by my “Strictures and Reply” to his published writings on baptism and feet-washing. Dine with him; then home.
SATURDAY, October 11. Meeting and love feast at the Lost River meetinghouse. Stay all night at Celestine Whitmore’s.
SUNDAY, October 12. Meet at the Lost River meetinghouse. In council Moses Myers is elected speaker. Stay all night at John Basehore’s.
MONDAY, October 20. Dine at John Fulk’s. Have night meeting at Jesse Mitchell’s. Stay there all night.
TUESDAY, October 21. Have night meeting at George Cowger’s. Stay there all night.
WEDNESDAY, October 22. Morning meeting at the widow Henkel’s. Night meeting at George Kesner’s. Stay there all night.
THURSDAY, October 23. Forenoon meeting at Isaac Judy’s. Stay all night at Manasseh Judy’s.
FRIDAY, October 24. Go to John Judy’s; then to D. Henkel’s and to Solomon Hours’s, and back to John Judy’s, where we have meeting. After preaching we repair to the clear water of Mill Creek, and I baptize seven persons. Stay all night at Jacob May’s.
SUNDAY, November 2. Meeting at our meetinghouse. I this day baptize ten converts, whose names follow: David Rhodes, Daniel Zigler, George Moyers, William Fifer and wife, J. Crist and wife, Mary Whisler, Rebecca Trissel, and Katy Showalter.
SATURDAY, November 15. Council at Green Mount. Benjamin Funk and W.C. Thurman regularly elected and put in as ministers of the Word.
SUNDAY, November 16. Meeting at the Plains meetinghouse. Harrison Daugherty and Anna Prophet are baptized by Samuel Wampler, while I go and baptize Harvey Elger.
WEDNESDAY, November 19. Go to Katy Mullen’s. Her sister Diana and her mother are both buried in one grave at Rader’s church. Jacob Stirewalt and I speak on the occasion from Rev. 14:13. Age of Diana, fifty-three years; mother, seventy-one years.
FRIDAY, November 21. Preach the funeral of Mrs. William Hevner in the Gap. Age, seventy-first year. A kind and good mother in her family, and a friend to me has she been.
THURSDAY, December 4. Go to Henry Neff’s; draw money for the brethren; go to Harrisonburg and to Solomon Garber’s.
FRIDAY, December 5. Council meeting at Beaver Creek meetinghouse. Daniel Thomas is ordained. Stay with him all night.
SATURDAY, December 6. Come to Harrisonburg; fix matters of business with the Confederate government agent; pay over money for the exemption of brethren. Come home; cold day.


