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Cloud County (Kan.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 2 Records:

Diary of Maude Egbert

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS B77
Overview Five-year diary kept by Maude (Mrs. C.J.) Egbert of Clyde, Cloud County, Kansas. The diary provides a regular accounting of her life as a farm wife during World War II. Activities or events she notes typically include sewing, entertaining and visiting friends and family, cooking, house cleaning, canning, personal health, some farm activities (like threshing), acquiring a swarm of bees, creek and river flooding, and the weather. Throughout the diary she calls her husband "Dad." Later...
Dates: 1943 - 1948

The wind always blows in Kansas

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P737
Overview

This family history and memoir by Melba McAdams Mayo, born in Clyde, Kansas in 1920, contains recollections of her childhood in Clyde as well as anecdotes from the lives of her Mittelstaedt, Oelker, and McAdams family ancestors as residents of Clyde, Kansas in the 1800s and the early 1900s.

Dates: 1970