Rain in A.M. Dried up in P.M. To college 8:00 to 2:30. Down town. Bowled at Star. Stayed home in evening. Studied. Father to Albany with Levy Moss. To bed 11:30 P.M. Thankful.
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Stanford spends a lot of time bowling in 1919. He must've been a very good bowler, as much as he practiced!
Trying to track down Levy Moss, who was evidently a friend of Stillman's, I found a man by that name who lived at 47 Vley Road with his wife Ella and their daughter Julia, her husband Severine Edmunds, and their daughter Hilda. He was a carpenter, born around 1858. Probably he is the same Levy (AKA Levi) who lived in Glenville in 1870 with his father, who was a farmer there. In 1880 he had his own farm in Glenville, where Thomas and Charles Closson were also farming at the time, and Stillman was still living with his father and mother. Mr. Moss's farm was not near the Clossons, judging by the distance between their listings on the census for that year. Now, why Stillman was going to Albany with Levy Moss, I have no idea!
Curiously, as I was looking at the listing for Thomas and Sabrina Closson in 1880, I saw that living with them was an Elizabeth Myers and her son, John, who was three years old at the time. Elizabeth was listed as the granddaughter of Thomas, and John as his great-grandson. And they did indeed live next door to Mr. Bub, mentioned in a previous post. This John is only three in 1880 and could not be the John I was speculating was the John Myers of the journal, since that John was born in 1864 or so. I'm pretty certain the older John Myers is the right one, since his wife's name fits. Is he related to the Myers who is Thomas's great-grandson? If so, the connection with the Clossons I was guessing at in the earlier post is obviously closer than friendship!
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