Archives West Finding Aid

The collection is composed of one folder containing five handwritten pages of family and local history (no creation date provided), one ledger, one journal and a packet of letters. The handwritten family history includes the family activities from 1835 forward including births and deaths of family members, homes built, the first school he attended, teacher compensation, farm life, treating sick cows, flies at the dinner table, Chinamen workers and the first industrial plant seen by Sisemore (Hanna’s Pottery Plant) in Jackson County, Klamath Falls and Fort Klamath, Oregon. The Board of Trustees journal activities in Linkville cover propositions of road building between 1889 and 1892 along with other town business. The letters Sisemore sent to his wife included his daily activities with weather reports, books he read, and news of neighbors and friends.

Linsy Sisemore’s ledger and payments received on notes are from October 3, 1911 to December 1916. Within these pages are daily entries for individual purchases. A few pages following the ledger payments, Sisemore wrote reminiscences entitled on the front cover of the ledger as “memorabilia pioneer days” written on March 30, 1940. Later pages include an accounting of “cattle bought from” April 1912-September 18, 1912.

The “Journal No 1 Records Board of Trustees” is the record for the Board of Trustees for the town of Linkville, June 5, 1889 - April 4th, 1892.

Letters written to “Ann” or “Ann and Catchetts” dated December 9, 1929 through March 9, 1930 relate to Linsy Sisemore’s daily activities and weather at Fort Klamath, Oregon. When opening the back cover of the tablet, there is a letter to Ella who seems to be the person whom Ann is visiting.