Snoopin’ with the Snoop

(As with all posts in my Lurkers category, this excerpt contains names of people mentioned in texts that I read. Currently, I am working on “transcribing” my great-grandmother’s travel journals, and this is an excerpt from 1937.)

August 9, 1937 — Speedometer reading – 46999.5
St. Clair County, Michigan

We were up bright and early and ready to leave at 8′o’clock. Pat had told me a couple of weeks earlier that John Robinson had offered to take care of the cow for us and then after a few days he decided the Burse’s might like to take care of her so he asked them and they thought they couldn’t manage it. Then just two or three days before it was time for us to go he said he believed he would ask Fred Burdie as he thought it would be asking too much of John to milk an extra cow in the mornings. Well it was left like that and on Monday morning I went to see if Johnson’s or Robinsons would sell Burses milk for themselves and to feed our cats. Found out that John had been depending on milking her. I came home and told Pat that if he hadn’t had that cow on wheels up and down Griswold Street for the last two weeks we wouldn’t have gotten into such a tangle.

My purpose today as I head off to NC not on I-40 as would be normal, is to stop in Spring City, and see if I can track down where Louis and Eunice lived. According to the 1900 census, they lived in Ward 2, 215B on Jackson Ave. Other close locations via census information are Rhea Ave and East 2nd St. From the tax lists in Rhea County for Spring City Ward 2, their neighbors on the North, South, East and West sides are as follows:
1894-1895 Johnson, street, Henderson, Johnson
1896 (Winnie’s weren’t listed, but Winnie’s were to the West of Henderson, North of Lavender, and East of Murray; Henderson NSEW – Jolloway, street, Holloway, Winne; Lavender NSEW – Winne, Miller, Porll, Griffin; Murray NSEW – Holloway, street Winne, Holloway). Would have been pertinent if I’d have copied down the bordering houses’ borders for all years…

Hmmm, changed my mind. I’m going to stop back in Dayton at the Clyde W. Roddy library, and copy down the locations of the Winnie’s neighbors and then up to Spring City to see if I can place where they lived.