I have an autograph book that was given to my grandmother (b. 2/5/1883) by her mother (Cynthia K. Close Pebbles Craft) on 12/25/1893. I was reading it again and recognized some names that have popped up on this mail list. So, I thought I would share some of the autographs with the list. I am including the actual rememberances because they are so interesting. I hope you enjoy, even if none of the names are of interest to you. Some are out of date order because I am listing in the order in the book and I'm using the spelling and punctuation, correct or incorrect. As a point of reference, my grandmother graduated from the Indiana Common Schools of District No. 2 in the School Township of Cass County of Greene on June 21, 1901. Her diploma was signed by Haney E. Cushman, Samuel M. O'Neal, and Levi J. Bauer. June 22, 1896 Newberry Ind It isnt the thing you do Nellie Its the thing you leave undone That causes the little heartaches from the seting of the sun Yours as ever A friend T.J. ?satrim Newberry Ind Jan 3rd 1894 Miss Nellie Craft "Walk as though you had a purpose" I command to you these words. M.W. Schuh Newberry Ind. Jan 10, '94 Miss Nellie Craft May your life be one of "peace happiness and prosperity" Is the sincere wish of Your Friend Carrie Shuck Newberry Ind Jan 7th '97 Friend Nellie Deem it not an idle thing, A pleasant word to speak, The face you wear the, Thoughts you bring, A heart would heal or break Ever your friend Harl (This might have been Harley Nickless, her first husband, whom she married 12/3/1904, Bloomfield, Greene, In. Harley died sometime before 1911 when she married my grandfather, in Colorado) Newberry Ind Jan 17 1894 Miss Nellie Honnor and obay your Father and Mother and you will reap a reward from them that will be more prechious to you through life than silver or gold Amos Musselman Newberry Ind Jan 13, 1897 Friend Nellye Look not mournfully upon the past It comes not again Yours Lula Quackenbush Jany 10 1894 Miss Nellie Carft Your Friend A.R. Shuh Compliments and Best Wishes of Nora Slinkard, Newberry Lula Tansey, Lyons Ind Latie Mileworth, Lyons Ind Maggie Dye, Lyons Ind Feb 1898 Newberry Ind Miss Nellie Do good and you will be good Flora Musselman Jan 17, '94 Dear Nellie Life's ocean lies before you. From it you will glean happiness respect and love or you will gather dissapointment, contempt and misery. Your own actions will determine which. Now, which shall you chose? Sincerely Will Bridwell 2/12/94 Nellie That the thorns along your pathway may be few is the wish of your friend and teacher. Nora L. Mackie Newberry Ind Jan 16th '94 Nellie: Be satisfied with doing well and leave others to speak of you as they will. Your Friend and School-mate Anna Woodhouse Newberry Indiana Jan 6, 1897 Nellie "Showers it be, it seems to me Tis only noble to be good Kind hearts are more than coronets An simple faith than Norman blood" Lovingly Grace Fields Bloomingfield Indiana January 17, 1894 Newberry Ind Feb 7, 1895 Dear Nellie In after years when This you see I wonder What your name will Be Your fiend and school mate Alice S. My Dear Friend Nellie Remember the bird Remember the nest Remember the one that you love best Your friend and school mate Frank Musselman Learning is better than silver or gold. Remember me Jan 17, 1894 Newberry Ind Dear Classmate, Kindness is the golden chains by which friendships is bound to gather. Your frind Jessie Mathews Jan 13, 1897 Newberry Ind Jan 13, 1896 Miss Nellie Craft; That life is longest if 'tis best; 'Tis ours to work, - to God belongs the rest He lives most who thinks most, Feels the noblest and acts the best May your every step be toward the goal of ideal womanhood. Your friend Oscar Dye The wisest man the world e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O. Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears, Her noblest work she classes, O- Her 'prentice hand she tried on man And then - she made the lasses O- T.J.S. Newberry Ind Friend Nellie Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed. Yours Ethel Townsend Newberry, Indiana My friend Nellie Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angles. May your deeds on earth Shine forth as the stars of heaven. Yours as ever Ethel Slinkard January 9, 1896 Newberry, Ind. Mar 26, '94 Sister Nellie:- May their be first enough clouds in your life; To make a beautiful sunset. Your Sister Iva Newberry, Feb 5 '98 Dear Friend Nellie How sad to part from those we love When not prepared to meet above Your friend Win Hornbeck Lyon Ind. Newberry Ind Jan 22, 1895 Dear Little Name-sake Good deeds shine as brightly on earth as the stars in heaven. Your friend Nellie Nugent Newberry Ind. Friend Nellie Some may wish you pleasure, And you may think them wise My wish for you is better for, "A home beyond the sky". Your friend Homer Faucette Jan 10, 1897 Newberry Ind, Jan 10, 1896 Dear Friend Nellie; I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant for you to be when he thought of you first, then I can feel that I have helped to do a noble work. Sincerely your teacher and friend, Stephen Slinkard Every tean is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter bless Apple blossoms upon the breezes toss them April knows her own is content S.W.S. (This one and the one above were on the same page and the initials are pretty much the same, perhaps they were written by the same person.) Newberry, Ind., Nellie - "Of all sad words of tongue are pen, The saddest of them it might have been." Every Yours, Jewett E. Fawcett Jan 8, '96 Jan 5th 1896 Nellie There is a silver lining to the darkest cloud Your friend Anna Keith Newberry Ind. Nellie Seek not mornfully upon the pst It comes not again Is the sincere wish of your friend Grace Newberry Nellie Remember the afternoon we wennt sleighriding Essie Shively Jan 23 1895 Newberry Ind Jan 11, 1897 My kind friend I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven and I depart. Bryan Yours Estella Armstrong God is always love Miss Nellie Craft: Truth is ever on the scafford, and wrong forever on the throne. But fear nothing and hope in all things as the Right alone may do securely every hour the thrones of Ignorance and ancient Night lose somewhat of their long usurped forever. Yours Mary T. Owen Jan 8, 1897 Newberry Indiana Jan 13, 1897 Dear Friend: - Remember me when far away, And only half awake; remember me on your wedding day, And send me a piece of cake. Your friend Marnie F. Woodhouse Newberry, Ind. Dearest Nellye, When you get old and ugly As girls always do. Remember you have a friend, Thats old and ugly too. Yours forever, Isabelle Jan 8, 1896 Ever Remember Jack Newberry Ind. Friend Nellie In each life, however lowly, There are seeds of mighty good. Still we shrink from souls appealing With a timid "If we could." - But God, knows all things Judgeth the truth is. "If we would." Ever your friend Maude E. Fawcette January 11, 1897 January 8, 1897 Dear Nellie As jewells incased in a Casket of Gold. Where the richest of treasures we hide The finest of thoughts be deep and untold Like the gems that are under the tide. Lovingly Clovis Fawcette Newberry Indiana Newberry Ind. Friend Nellie - Tomorrow will soon be to-day for us; if we make the day we live in now, the best we can , we need not fear for the to-morrows. Your Friend Ana Sherwood Newberry Ind. Nellie: - Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his sypress trees: Who hopeless lays his dead away. Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play: Yours ???? Baker Jan 8 '97 newBerry, Ind Jan 13, 1897 Dear Nellye, Remember care dear Nellye When on this page you look Remember it was Flora, Who wrote this in your Book. Your Friend and School-mate Flora Feb 11, 1898 Ever remember. John