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Linn - Nellie Elizabeth


Autograph Book of Ms. Nellie Elizabeth Linn


 [Nellie was born 26 February, 1880, in Mace, Montgomery County,  Indiana]
 [Note: punctuation, grammar, and spelling not modified in this  transcript]
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Inside cover inscribed: "Nellie Linn, Mace,  Indiana"
Page 1: cover page imprinted: "Autographs"
Page 2: I hope indeed that every one
 Will fill a page as I have done,
 And take the trouble and the time
 To write thoughts in prose or rhyme,
 So that I can whate'er befall
 The names of all my friends recalled.
 Your Friend
 Dec. 25, 1891

 Page 3: Dear Nellie,
 When you are sitting alone
 Reflecting on the past Remember
 That you have a friend that will last forever.
 Your Friend
 Lulu Dice
 March 17 1892

 Page 4: Nellie Linn
 One thing have I Desiered
 Of the Lord that you will seek
 After that you may Dwell in
 The house of the Lord
 All the days of your life.
 Grandma
 Mace Ind.
 May 12th 1892
Page 5: Dear Nellie,
 Ever remember your friend and schoolmate.
 Effie C. McClure
 Remember me.
 Mace, Ind.
 Feb 15, 1893
Page 6: Dear Nellie,
 "Trust to God to weave your thread in-to the great web,
 though the pattern shows it not yet."
 Remember your friend
 Ida Dice
 Mace, Ind
 Mch. 17, 1892
Page 7: As the days are passing by
 And when you are old and gray
 Think of me.
 Your school mate
 Clyde Loop
 remember me
 Feb 16 day 1893
Page 8: Friend Nellie:
 Love no man, not even your brother,
 If girls must love, love one another.
 Your Friend.
 Lena Gaskill.
 Centropolis Kansas
 April 6, 1894.
Page 9: blank
Page 10: Friend Nellie
 When your school days have ended
 And no more this path you trod
 May your name in gold be
 Written in the Autograph of God.
 Your Friend
 Jane
 April - 4 - 6 - 94.
Page 11: Dear Nellie
 There is no excelence without
 great labor.
 Your schoolmate
 Otis Stafford
 Mace Indiana,
 Feb 20th 93
Page 12: Cousin Nellie:
 "Seek ye the Lord while
 he may be found."
 Ever remember
 Your Cousin
 Annie Dice
 Linnsburg Ind.
 May 31, 1892
Page 13: blank
Page 14: Nellie
 While you are young and full of life
 Fret not yourself with petty strife
 But have a nobler field in view
 Choose what is right and that pursue
 John W. Linn
 Mace Ind
 Dec 27th 1891
Page 15 blank
Page 16: Nellie
 Always be good and
 kind and you will have
 plenty of friends.
 One of your friends
 Mrs. D. D. Berry
 July 15, 1892
Page 17: blank
Page 18: Dear Cousin Nellie,
 When I am laid silent in the grave
 And the Willows are well up
 Tis then dear friend and not before
 Find I shall think of thee no more.
 Yours truly.
 Your Cousin
 Ella Richardson
 Remember me
 Thorntown Ind.
 Dec 12th 1892
Page 19: Dear Nellie
 Remember me now,
 Remember me in wishes,
 Remember me when you wash dishes.
 Your friend and Schoolmate
 Georgie Kelsey
 Linnsburgh Ind.
 Feb 19, 1893
Page 20: Dear Nellie,
 Remember me when far, far off
 When the wood-chucks die with the whooping-cough.
 Your friend and schoolmate,
 Maud Hale,
 Mace Ind.
 Feb 21, 1893
Page 21: blank
Page 22: For Nellie.
 True friends are like flowers
 precious but rare.
 False ones are like autumn
 leaves found everywhere.
 Fred M.
 Yankee Town
 Sept-17-93.
Page 23: blank
Page 24: Remember the two deadbeets
 of Mace school when WBW taught
 S G V
 E J M
Page 25: Miss Nellie:
 May blessing fall upon your head
 Like dew drops on an onion bed.
 Your Friend
 Bertha Peterson
 Linnsburgh
 '2 - 20 - 93'
Page 26: Miss Nellie
 Friend.
 Always serve God
 Be good kind and true.
 And there will be a place
 Prepared in heaven for you.
 Your friend
 Edna Kelsy.
 Remember me in the Days of your youth
 Linnsburg Inda
 Jan 25th 1892
Page 27: blank
Page 28: Nellie,
 Plow deep while sluggard sleep
 And you will have wheat to sell and wheat to Keep
 G. A. H.
 Mace Ind.
 April 5, 1894
Page 29: Dear Nellie.
 Compliments of
 Harley Kelsy.
 Linnsburgh Ind
 Feb 19, 1893.
Page 30: Think of me long,
 Think of me ever.
 Think of the fun
 We have had together.
 Walter Linn
 Mace Ind.
 Dec 28th 1891
Page 31: Dear Nellie:
 Love your father
 Love your mother
 Love your sisters
 Love your brothers
 Love your book
 And love your toys
 But do not love the ugly boys.
 Your Sister
 Laila Eliza Linn
 Mace
 Jan 30 - 1901.
Page 32: Dear Nellie:
 Be good and you will
 Be happy.
 Your Cousin
 Leida.
 Mch 6th 1892.
Page 33: Friend Nellie.
 When the golden sun is sinking
 And your heart from care and trouble free
 When of others you are thinking
 Wont you sometimes think of me.
 Your friend and schoolmate.
 Mary Misdo
 Remember me till the last day of judgement
 Mace, Ind. March 5 1894.
Page 34: Miss Nellie
 True love is a golden chain
 That bindeth heart to heart,
 And not one link of it will break
 When lovers have to part.
 Your Friend
 Hallie
 Remember me
 Mace, Ind.
 Jan 25 1892
Page 35: Miss Nellie:
 You ask me to write in your album
 I hardly know how to begin
 For there is nothing original in me
 Except orginal sin.
 Your friend till Death
 Daisy M
 Remember me
 Mace, Ind, Jan. 25 - 1892
Page 36: Miss Nellie:
 Kiss is a noun
 Both common and proper
 Not very singular
 And agrees with both you and I.
 Your Friend Till Death.
 Myrtle Galloway.
 Ever Remember me.
 Mace, Ind.
 Feb 15 1893
Page 37: Friend Nellie
 When days are long
 And Friends are few
 Remember me and
 I will you.
 Your Friend
 John Misch
 Remember me till the day of judgement.
 Feb 20 - 1893.
Page 38: Friend Nellie:
 May your voyage thought
 Life be as happy and free
 As the dancing waves
 Over the deep blue sea.
 Your Friend
 Carrie Reichard
 Linnsburgh Ind.
 Remember me.
 Jan. 23 - 1892.
Page 39: Friend Nellie,
 We are both walking on
 The same road to Heaven
 And if we keep out of sin
 We will have a happy home in Heaven.
 Your Friend
 E. L.
 Mace Ind Feb 20, 93
Page 40: Dear Cousin Nellie,
 Through the Walks of this life
 We all need an umbrella;
 May yours be upheld
 By a handsome young fellow.
 Your Dearest Cousin
 Ethel
 Mace Ind
 June 2 / 92
Page 41: Friend Nellie.
 Round went your album
 Hither it came
 For me to write in
 So here is my name
 Kittie McClure.
 Ever remember me
 Mace, Ind.
 Jan 25 1892.
Page 42: Nellie
 Remember thy
 Creator in the days
 Of thy youth.
 Anna Linn
 Mace Ind Dec 28th 91
Page 43: Friend Nellie,
 Remember me dear Nellie,
 When on these lines you look,
 Remember it was Lena,
 Who wrote this in your book.
 Your Friend
 Lena.
 Mace, Ind
 Apr. 4, 1894
Page 44: Friend Nellie,
 "Few minds ware out,
 most rust out."
 Your friend
 Mrs. Jennie Biddle.
 Mace, Ind. Feb. 22, 1893
Page 45 Miss Nellie:
 To knit and spin was once a girls employment.
 But now to dress and have a beau is all a girls enjoyment.
 Yours Lovingly
 Anna McCarty
 Ever rem your friend Anna.
 Linnsburgh Ind
 2-15-1893
Page 46: Friend Nellie.
 Be gentle and loving
 Be kind and polite
 Be thoughtful to others.
 Be sure and do right.
 From your schoolmate,
 C. O. S.
 Remember me.
 Mace, Ind.
 2-16-93.
Page 47: Dear Nellie:
 When in my grave I lonely sleep,
 And the waving willows o'er me weep,
 Tis then dear friend and not before
 That I will think of thee no more.
 Your Cousin,
 Elsie.
 Dec 5th 1896.
Page 48: Dear Little Niece
 May you live a Happy, Christian life is
 The wish of your
 Aunt Jennie
 June 2 1892
Page 49: Friend Nellie:
 Love may be blind, but love can see
 That there's plenty of room for too
 On one small chair if they sit with care
 And stick just as close as glue.
 Your schoolmate
 Mammie Thompson.
 Remember the Mace College and me also.
 1892. Mace Ind.
 Jan. 25th
Page 50: Friend Nellie
 Meeting is a pleasure
 Parting is a pain,
 May God protect both
 You and I until we
 Meet again.
 Your schoolmate.
 Minnie Armstrong
 Remember me ever.
 Mace Ind.
 Jan. 25 1892
Page 51: blank
Page 52: Friend Nellie
 May you live a true
 And happy life and make
 Some man a tip top wife.
 Your Sincere friend
 Dora May Hale
 Mace Ind.
 Feb 15 - 1893
Page 53: Nellie:
 Remember the miss
 That scribbled this
 Your siss
 Laila Linn.
Page 54: Nellie
 Health and prosperity
 Your life to cheer
 With every blessing
 On your birthday each year.
 Miss Elsie Meears
 Remember me.
 Mace Ind
 Dec 29, 1891
Page 55: blank
Page 56: Nellie
 Forget me not
 Aunt Lizzie
 Remember me.
 Mace Ind
 Dec 29th 1891
Page 57: Friend Nellie
 Nellie Linn is your name
 Nellie Linn let it remain
 Until you find a nice young Man
 Then change the Linn if you can.
 Your Friend
 Ida Galloway
 Remember me
 Linnsburgh Ind
 Jan 25 - 1892
Page 58: Nellie
 In after years,
 When this you see,
 I wonder what
 Your name will be?
 [annotated apparently later: Manges]
 Chas W. Linn.
 Remember me.
 Mace Indiana
 Dec 26 - 91
Page 59: When you get old
 And rinkled up, just look back
 And think of younger
 Days and that will
 Make you happy.
 Your Schoolmate
 H. E. Linn
 Remember me.
 Mace, Ind.
 April, 5th 1894.
Page 60: As sure as the vine grows
 Around the stump
 You are a big sugar lump
 Yours
 Otis Linn.
 Mace Ind
 April 21 1893
Page 61: Dear Nellie
 y y u r
 y y u b
 i see u r
 y y for me.
 Ethel Loop
 Mace Ind
 1893 Dec. 28
Page 62: I hope indeed that every one,
 Will fill a page as I have done,
 And take the trouble and the time,
 To write a thought in prose or rhyme,
 So that I can whate'er befall
 The names of all my friends recall.
 Nellie [added later: Manges]
 Mace Indiana.
 February 11th 1893
Page 63: Cousin Nellie:
 Ever remember me
 As your friend and Cousin
 Dora Martin
 Sept 17 1893.
Page 64: Nellie:
 Let your motto be, 'seldorie
 Equabil' seldorie Excelbil' [note: difficult to read, Latin?]
 Your cousin
 W.F. Hays
 Grace D. Hays.
 June 2nd 93
Page 65: Nellie remember your little friend
 Nellie Berry.
 July 13, 1892
Page 66: Nellie
 When the golden sun is setting
 And your mind from care is free
 When of other you are thinking
 Will you sometimes think of me
 Dasa E. Mears
 Remember me.
 Mace, Ind
 Dec 29, 1891
Page 67: Friend Nellie
 When you get old and cannot see
 Put on your specks and think of me.
 Your Friend
 Dollie Pattan
 Feb 21, 1893.
Page 68: Compliments of your Cousin
 Myrtle Hunt
 Mace Ind.
 Dec 30 '92.
Page 69: Friend Nellie
 Remember me when
 This you see for I am
 As happy as a bumble-bee.
 E. J. Misch
 1-15-1893
Page 70: Always strive onward and upward.
 Yours,
 H. Freeman.
 Schoolmate
 Mace, Ind
 Feb. 15, 1893
Page 71: Cousin Nellie:
 Accept compliments of your Cousin
 Allie.
 Remember Saturday night, Sept 16.
 Sept. 17, 1893.
Page 72: While you are full of life
 Fret not yourself with petty strifes
 But have a nobler field in view
 Choose what is right and that pursue.
 Uncle Abia Martin
 Forget me not
 Mace
 Jan 24th 1892
Page 73: "He must upward still and
 Onward who would keep abrest to Truth"
 Ward B. Walkup
 This 4-5-1894.
Page 74: blank
Page 75: Friend Nellie
 Remember me early
 Remember me late
 Remember your schoolmate
 Rena Sharp
 Mace Ind Feb 20 1893
Page 76: Friend Nellie,
 Upon these pages pure and white
 Let none but friends presume to write
 And may each line so freely given
 Direct the reader's thoughts to Heaven.
 Your Friend
 Blanche Finch.
 Linnsburgh Ind.
 Feb. 16 1893
Page 77: Friend Nellie
 When you are sailing down the stream of time
 Always paddle your own canoe
 Is the wish of your friend
 Lulu Loop
 Remember me
 Mace, Ind.
 Feb. 20 1893
Page 78: Dear Friend:
 When your days on earth are ended,
 And no more this hath you trod,
 May your name in Gold be written,
 In the autograph of God,
 This is the earnest wish of your friend
 Meory C. Mount.
 Linnsburgh Ind.
 March 17 1892

 Names included in the Autograph book (in the order they  appeared):
Nellie Linn
 Lulu Dice
 Grandma ?
 Effie C. McClure
 Ida Dice
 Clyde Loop
 Lena Gaskill
 Jane ?
 Otis Stafford
 Annie Dice
 John W. Linn
 Mrs. D. D. Berry
 Ella Richardson
 Georgie Kelsey
 Maud Hale
 Fred M
 S G V
 E J M
 Bertha Peterson
 Edna Kelsy
 G. A. H
 Harley Kelsy
 Walter Linn
 Laila Eliza Linn
 Leida ? ("Cousin")
 Mary Misdo
 Hallie ?
 Daisy M
 Myrtle Galloway
 John Misch
 Carrie Reichard
 E. L.
 Ethel ? ("cousin")
 Kittie McClure
 Anna Linn
 Lena ?
 Mrs. Jennie Biddle
 Anna McCarty
 C. O. S.
 Elsie ? ("cousin")
 Aunt Jennie ?
 Mammie Thompson
 Minnie Armstrong
 Dora May Hale
 Laila Linn
 Elsie Meears
 Aunt Lizzie ?
 Ida Galloway
 Chas W. Linn
 H. E. Linn
 Otis Linn
 Ethel Loop
 Nellie Linn
 Dora Martin
 W.F. Hays
 Grace D. Hays
 Nellie Berry
 Dasa E. Mears
 Dollie Pattan
 Myrtle Hunt
 E. J. Misch
 H. Freeman
 Allie ? ("cousin")
 Uncle Abia Martin
 Ward B. Walkup
 Rena Sharp
 Blanche Finch
 Lulu Loop
 Meory C. Mount
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