Annie Way Smith pocket diary, 1931

This pocket diary contains more extensive entries that reflect a very stressful and difficult year. Walter Reeve died in January. Annie attended peace meeting and kept an active religious attendance, noting that preachers exchanged pulpits in different congregations. Her son-in-law Bill lost his job. Husband Ed was in poor health but insisted on continuing his medical practice. A report from Aunt Mary O. that she lost money in a Lansdowne bank, Dr. Shields arrived to help the medical practice, but Ed was stubborn and difficult, bedridden when not trying to treat patients. He apparently had a home practice with Annie helping in the office , and she was burdened with caring for sick members of the family at home. Ed died 2 month 29, 1932, described in his obituary in The Friend that "he typified the beloved family physician."