Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
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Charles Latham
31 May 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATE: 1954
PROVENANCE: Judith Van Camp, Montpelier, IN, 17 May 1995
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: None
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0474
Mattie Murle Tharp Pugh (born ca 1881) lived in Montpelier, Blackford County, Indiana. She married Ott Pugh, who predeceased her, and had eleven children. In 1954 she was active raising chickens, selling eggs, cultivating a garden, collecting salt-and-pepper sets of which she had nearly 140, making rag rugs, and helping her church. For church bazaars she made hundreds of footstools by padding and covering tall metal oil cans.
Source: Materials in collection
This collection contains one item, a photocopy of the diary of Mattie T. M. Pugh for January to mid-November 1954. The diary begins with the statement that it is her first. She filled the page for each day, and rarely ran over. Most days began with housework. She had numerous visitors, but found time to watch television, especially wrestling matches and Arthur Godfrey. She does not seem to have had a car, but made trips to Hartford City and Lafayette. There are occasional references to current events, mainly disasters, but none to politics.
MAIN ENTRY: Pugh, Mattie Murle Tharp, 1880-1975
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Pugh, Mattie Murle Tharp, 1880-1975--Diaries
Women--Indiana--Montpelier--Diaries
Rural women--Indiana--Blackford County--Diaries
Women--Indiana--Montpelier--Religious life
Montpelier (Ind.)
Blackford County (Ind.)
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