"My Grate Grandfather Thomas came to America before the Revlusion Ware to rais tobaco with others and hoo bought his wife in tobaco and was in the ware under George Washington, don't know who my grate grandmother was, don't know how many children was borned to this union. There was Jacob, John Steve and Thomas my grandfather his wife being my grandmother was Elizabeth Lamb of this union there was five boys and four girls. Haistin, Harden, Fountain, Thomas my father and Dudley the youngest boy. Girls Giny, Matilda, Elizabeth and Susan. Was married in Rockenham County Virginia the home of the Shifflet family. My father married Anny Harden in Ky. to this union their was eight children, Sally, Polly, Cyrena, Hannah, Icy, Milly girls. Boys James O. and Thomas E. Shifflet age 69 date 1909.

This is written and spelled just as Grandpa Shifflet spelled it.
Signed by Bob Austin copied from the diary given to Bob's wife Lola Shifflet Austin."