Autograph book of Minnie Wickliffe of Zanesville, Indiana, 1890s-early 1900s. Owned and transcribed by Cathy Burnsed, cathy@gardenour.com Grammar, punctuation, and spelling are as they were written 100 years ago. If you can correct a misspelled name, please email me. _______________________________________________________________________________ Autographs. _______________________________________________________________________________ No 1th 1891 Zanesville Ind Minnie W Long may you live happy May you be marry who You please and live neighbor to me from your Friend D. P. (written in ink - "Dave? Pratt") _______________________________________________________________________________ Dec. 25. 1890. Zanesville Inda. There was a time I knew you not. but now you shall not be forgot. then sence we knew each other well Let us in Truth and Frendship dwle. Minnie Wickliffe. _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Ind feb 3th If you get there before I do Look out for me Im a comming to Rember me Yours truly as a friend and Homer B. Hartz? school-mate. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ossion Ind Dec. 3rd 1899 Friend Minnie Remember me early. Remember me late. Remember the wired gate. N. M. P. _______________________________________________________________________________ Nine Mile Ind June 3, 1894 Friend Minnie: Life is a school of Preperation Each day we make a recitation Death ends the term without vacation Then comes the hard examination Your Friend W ? Bufink? _______________________________________________________________________________ Friend Minnie 1891 Love no man not Even your brother If girls must love, Love one another. Ever your's and a true friend L. Mc. B. Forget-me-not. (written in ink "Lollie McBride ? Lolly Gloss ?") _______________________________________________________________________________ Ossian July 13th 91. Cousin Minnie, If the world be worth thy win- ning, I think, O think it worth enjoying: Ernest Cotton. [Colton?] _______________________________________________________________________________ Friend Minnie. Jan 8th 1891 Remember me The sea is deep And so is the ocean. Just think of me. When you take a notion. from your Schoolmate Lutie Walker _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Inda Friend Minnie - January 8.-1891 Remember me when years have fled, And I am numbered with the dead Where the green grass, and flowers shall wave Above your school-mate's lonely [lovely?] grave. Your dearest Friend Dell. Shipler Remember me. _______________________________________________________________________________ Oct. 11th 1896 Happy may you live Happy may you be Mary who you Please and live a neighbor to me Rember me. Nathaniel M. Prough _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesvill Ind Jan. 30. 1891 Friend Minnie In the golden chain of Friendship regard me as a link From a Friend Ira Wickliffe Remember me. _______________________________________________________________________________ Oct 11th 1896 I wish you Health I wish you Wealth I wish you money in store I wish you Heaven After Deat I cannot wish no more Compliments of Dottie Woods _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Indiana Jan 26th 1891 Friend Minnie May you kind friend be ever blest With friends selected from the best And in return may you extend The gem of love to every friend, Ever Your Friend Mary Peck. _______________________________________________________________________________ Sister, Dec 17-1899. In the meadow's of heaven, Blosson the lovely stars. The for-get-me-not's of. Aangle's, Mae _______________________________________________________________________________ Jan-8-1891. Friend Minnie. To knit and spin was once a girls employment But now to dress and have a beau Is all a girls enjoyment "Ever Yours" T?ardie Sean__? [or Scan__?] _______________________________________________________________________________ Jan 18 1891. Friend Minnie Some friends may wish you free from care, others joy and wealth, some friends may wish you blessing arare long life and perfect health, my wish for thee is better for than all others have given Jennie Wright. _______________________________________________________________________________ January 18-1891. Friend Minnie Forget me not forget me never Untill the sun goes down For ever, From a S. Mate Callie Zion Remembe me _______________________________________________________________________________ Dec 17, 1899. Sister Minnie Roses are red and vilots blue Vinegar is sour and so are you Goldia Wickliffe _______________________________________________________________________________ Friend Minnie. To morrow May be Never Willie Earl Zanesville Indiana _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Ind. Mar. 16. 93 Friend Minnie. You ask for some thing Origional, But where shall I begin, For there is nothing Origional in me, Except Origional sin. Yours truly Lilly Redding. Yours truly. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ossian Ind. July 1 91. Miss Minnie: When things dont go to suit you, And the world seems upside down Dont waste your time in fretting, But drive away the frown. Your friend Harriet Wilmington _______________________________________________________________________________ Minnie Wickliffe Zanesville Inda. Presented Christmas 1890 [written in ink "By my Dad & Mother"] _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Inda. Dec. 27th 1890. Friend Minnie. I wish you health. I wish you wealth, I wish you gold in store. I wish you heaven after death I cannot wish you more. Eva J. Peck. _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Inda. Friend Minnie A day for toil an hour for sport but for a friend life is to short. Your School mate Jesse Peck. _______________________________________________________________________________ Friend Minnie Though hills and seas Divide us and my face No more you see remember That twas a little friend That wrote thes lines to the[e] Your school mate Otis F.? Tusselman? [Otis Fadusselman?] _______________________________________________________________________________ Compliments =========== of ==== Your Friend =========== =========== W T Bufink ========== ========== Nine Mile ==== ==== Ind. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ossian Ind. July 1st '91 Friend Minnie. Over our hearts, and into our lives, The shadows will sometimes fall, But the sunshine is never wholy dead, And Heaven is shadowless over head, And God is over all. Your Friend. Nan. M. Cotton. _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Ind. 19," 91," 10," 21." Miss Minnie; As I look through your album today, To see what others have done; All I have to say Is, -- Remember the winter of '91. Your Teacher. W. H. Thornburg Montpelier Ind. _______________________________________________________________________________ Oct 22 1891 Friend Minnie. If you want your fellow to take you home. Be sure and go where he is alone. From a friend and school mate C. R. Hartup Remember me _______________________________________________________________________________ Ossian Indiana Aug 20-1896 Friend Minnie Remember me in some far of land Remember the writing of my hand And when the grave shall be my lot Remember me when I am not Compliments of a friend Bertha V. Huss. Remember me ever _______________________________________________________________________________ Bluffton Ind. Oct. 20/'02. To my dear Cousin. Heaven is not reached at a single bound But we build the ladder by which we climb From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies We mount to its summit round by round. From Your Hossier Cousin Jenny Arnold. _______________________________________________________________________________ Zanesville Ind. Miss Minnie When you think think aright When you spark have a light When you get married hug him tight And not before for it haint right. From a friend schoolmate and neighbor Dora Forget. me. not. Minnie [Calling card with handwritten "Dora Peck"] _______________________________________________________________________________ Nov. 21. 91 Zanesville Ind. Never trouble trouble Till trouble troubles you Your Friend. Charles Peck _______________________________________________________________________________ [on last page, near seam:] "Last Least and Your Unknown Pickwick." _______________________________________________________________________________