Samuel Jones Melvin was my great-grandfather.

He kept a daily diary starting on January 1, 1861, when he was only twenty-two years old. He wrote in this diary every day for fifty-one years.

His final diary entry was made on June 2, 1913, when he was seventy-four years old. This entry ends mid-sentence and was never completed.

He died seventeen days later on June 19, 1913.

This picture was taken some time in the early 1900s.
Galbraith Melvin was my paternal grandfather.
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