Pocahontas Dec 25 1885
Dear Wife
  Please except this
as a token of my love
Your affectionate husband

    Jas M Harned

Sister Della
We may write our names in albums
We may trace them in the sand
We may chisel them in marble
With a firm and skillful hand
But the pages soon are sullied
Soon each name will fade away
Evry monument will crumble
Like all earthly hopes decay
But dear friend there is an album
Full of leaves of snowy white
Where no name is ever tarnished
But forever pure and bright
In that book of Life God's Album
May your name be penned with care
And may all who here have written
Write their names forever there
              Your Sister
                Dora
Carlyle
Ill Aug 23,
1890

Friend Della
Remember me when death shall close
My eyelids in there last repose
When summer winds shall gently wave(?)
The flowers that bloom on my grave
		Your True Friend
		  Rosa Boyer
Feb 13th 1890

                December 6th 1891
Remember thy Ceator in the days
Of thy youth
		Yours Rspectfuly
		John W. Harned

                        Feb. 9, 1886
Some friends have wished thee free from care(?)
Others joy and health
Some have wished thee blessings rare
Long life and constant health
My wish for thee is better far
Than all thy friends have given
That when thou leavest this world of ours (?)
Thy soul may rest in heaven
		Ever your friend, Lizzie Fl(?)
Greenville Ill.

                Donnellson(?) Dec 6, 1891(?)
Dear Cousin
  As ripples follow a boat at sea
So may happiness follow thee
		Cousin Edna(?)

                Carlyle Ill Aug 15th 1890
Dear cousin
	This world is full off trouble but now(?) 
you see
that land of peace and pleasure
and always happy be
		your loving cousin
Minnie B Walker

July 4th, 1902
Dear Friend
A place for my name in your album
A place for my love in your heart
A place for us both in heaven
Where true friends never part
		L A Coco(?)

                Vandalia, Ill.
		Feb 14, 1891
Cousin Dell,
If in your stroll among the woods
A pretty flower you chance to see
And if its a forgetmenot
Its emblem please except for me
		Your friend
		Ella Crouch

Dell,
What (to) write in your album for
critics to spy
For the learned to laugh at? No not I(?)
		Your cousin
		Emma Locey
Carlyle Ill
April 19, 189(?)

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Compliments of
Your Cousin
Cliff Creel

                Pocahontas Ill
		Feb 27 1898
Dear Cousin:
	Remember me
when far, far off, where the
wood-chucks die of the
whooping cough
		Your cousin
		M. R. Kirkham

(?) Dell Harned,
		With many
well wishes for your future
welfare and happiness, I remain
your friend
		D. R. Wilkins MD
Pocahontas Ills
	Dec 6th 1891(?)

                Pocahontas, Ill.
		Nov. 2, 1901
Dear Mrs. Harned;
	Some roses are red and some are blue,
Always paddle your own canoe.
	Your True Friend,
		Hubert

                Polnser(?) Ills Dec 6. 91
		Colnser(?)
Dear Cousin,
  They that trust in the Lord
shall be as Mount Zion which
Cannot be removed but
Abidith for ever.
		Your Cousin
		A. E. McKaig

                Pocahontas, Dec 30th, 1885
Dear sister:
Dora Kirkham is my name
Illinois is my station Bond co. is
My dwelling place and heaven is
My expectation, Your sister
		Dora Kirkham

Dear(?) Dell    Mary M Harned

Lord of thy life, thy guide, thy friend,
Whose love shall last till life shall end
Through Times dark wilderness of years
Conduct thy steps, control thy fears.
		Cornelia McAdam(?)
Pocahontas, January 23rd, 1886

                Vandalia, Dec 6th 1890
Accept my best wishes
		J. A. Donald

Pocahontas Ills
	September 6th 1886
My darling niece
May thy days in this life
be bright and happy
and at death may you
have a home in heaven
in the (?)
Rosemary Shafer(?)

                March 13th 1887
		Reno Ills
Dear Cousin Dell,
As the sent of roses
pure so will my love
for the endure
	Ever your loving cousin
Sadie H Davis

                Smithboro Ill
		July 4th 1902
Dearest Friend
You asked me to write
Ah what shall it be
A token of friendship
From Laura to thee
Your Loving daughter
Laura

                Pocahontas, Ill., Jan. 17, 1886.
Let not friendship be like the rose, to sever,
But, like the evergreen, may it last forever.
	Your true and kind friend
	  Kate Spillkey

              Pocahontas
		Jan 2nd, 186
Dear Sister
May your life be ever joyous gay and
happy and the future ever bright before you
	Ever Loveing
		Edith File
		St Louis
                Missouri

Dear Dell,
May thy darkest hour in
Life be well lighted with the
Sunshine of contentment

Emma Donnell January 17th 1886

                June 17th 1891
Dear Cousin Dell,
He who ascends to mountaintops shall find
The loftiest peaks most  in clouds and 
He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below
			(Byron)
	A sight judgement
Draw profit from all things we see
		Shakespeare
	Your loving cousin
	Mrs W. M. Taylor
	Heagastown Ills

                Vandalia Ill 7/24/91
Dear Cousin Dell
How sweet twill be as evening
If you and I can say
Good shepherd we've been seeking
The lambs that went astray
Hert(?)-sore and faint with hunger
We heard them making moan
And lo! we came at night-fall
Bearing them safely home
	Yours Very Truly
		?

        Pocahontas Ills March 1st 1886
Dear sister
Softly down lifes
Ebbing tide may our vessels
Smoothly glide, and anchor
Side by side in heaven
	Your little sister
		Della Kirkham

        Oskaloosa Kansas
	June 20th 1896
Your Cosin
	C(?) W Kirkham

        March 13th 1887
	Reno Ills.
	Dear Cousin Dell
Friend-ship
Like sweet music
	pealing
Far o'er the blue sea
Oft comes o'er me
	stealing
Sweet memories of the
	Ever your Loving
		Friend
		Ida M Davis
Remember me

        Pocahontas Ill Jan 17 1886
Friend Dell
	May thy path bestrewn with
flowers
		Anna Spillsey

        Pocahontas Ill
		Jan 20, 1886
Remember me when years have fled
And I am numbered with the dead
And not a stone is left to tell
Where lies your friend that loves
You Well
	Kate Ellegood

April 5 98      Etta Kirkham
		Greenville Ill

Vandalia Illinois
		Sept 12th 1891
Dearest Dell;
May bright with hopes thy future be,
May friends prove kind and true to thee;
Neer by misfortunes wintry blast
Thy dawn of life be overcast;
May love and joy be ever thine
And peace upon thy pathway shine
And when through with Earthly trials
That your soul will rest in Heaven
is the wish of your loving Cousin
		Emma Creel

                Vandalia Ill.
		Feb 14th 1891
Cousin Dell,
When you are sitting all alone
Reflecting on the past
Remember that you have a friend
That will foever last
		Ever your friend
		Arril(?) Crouch

Feb 27 98
Dudleyville Ill
Dear Aunt
Some write for fortune
Some write for fame
I write just to sign my name
Jimmie Harned

        Smithboro Ill
	July 4th
My Dear Mrs Harned
Some wish you wealth
Some wish you health
Some wish you gold and silver(?)
I wish you heaven
After death,
What could I wish you more
Laura Craig(?)

Friend Della
Pleasure is a flower that 
Fades
Remembrance is its last
Perfume
Your Cousin	O C Justice
Carlyle Ill
Apr 20 90

        Carlyle Ills
	April 20 1890
To Mrs Della Harned
May Joy and happiness
your days attend
But ever trust in Jesus
For he is your friend
	Your uncle(?)
	W H Walker

        Pocahontas Ill
	January 1st 86
Sister Dell,
Wishing you a happy
New year. I remain your
brother(?)
	Louis Harned
	Carson city Nev

        Carlyle Illinois April 25th
Dearest Dell
As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path 
Advances	
May that side the sun upon
Be all that ever shall meet
Thy glances
	Your loving cousin

Dear Dell,
May life be to you one
long bright summer day
	Your Cousin
	Ena Justice
Carlyle April 20, 1890

        Pocahontas Ill
	Nov 1901
Friend
May heavens choisest blessings
shine
Forever both on the and thine
	Your Friend
	Mayo Mollet

Carlyle Ill. Sept 25th 1891
Farewell my child farewell
Adieu Farewell to thee
and you my dear child
Farewell farewell to you
Your mother is gone and we are left
the loss(?) of her to mourn
But may we hope to meet with her
with Christ before gods throne
	John Kirkham

Carlyle Ill
			April 19, 1890
	Art and Tact(?)
Intelligence and courtesy not
always are combined
Often in a wooden house a
golden room we find
	Sincerely yours
	Minta(?) K Locey

                June 18, 1891
Dear Cousin Della
The little flower that opens in the
meadows lives and dies in a season;
but what agencies have concentrated
themselves to produce it? So the human 
soul lives in the midst of
Heavenly help.
	Ever your cousin
	Leillia(?) E Creel

Dear Cousin Dell;
Time flies and draws
us with it. The moment in
which I am speaking is
already far from me
	Affectionately
	Cora Locey
Carlyle Ill
April 19, 1890

        Pocahontas Ill Mar 9/86
	Dear cousin
Love many, trust few,
and always paddle your own canoe
	Your cousin
	Terry

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	Pocahontas, Ill
	Dec 6th/91
Dear Dell
In memory wreath please
one bud for me
	Your sister
        J H Wilkins

 (inside back cover)
Uncle Lue Harned came back Oct 31 1911
after being absent for 26 years