Autobiography on Jonathan Davis Jonathan Davis, a middle-class boy at the age of 14, is an apprentice to his father Joseph Davis, a blacksmith. He lives in the town of Rochester during the 1800’s with his mother two sisters and four brothers, all between the ages of 6 months old- 16 years old. Jonathan goes to school from November to April because the other months are harvesting time. He dresses like his father with overalls and boots. Jonathan has been trying to save up money so he can afford to buy a hat for his pa when he has the sun beating on his head when they harvest the crops, corn, wheat, and beans.
His father takes him out of school when it comes time for the harvesting season. All of the family except for his sisters and mother come to help them in the fields. The women in the family stay and clean the house or cook and tend to the babies. Joseph had taught him how to farm starting when Jonathan reached the age of 10, of course at that time he didn’t have the strength to lift the heavy wood so he would carry the water buckets to and from the fields to water the plants during the dry seasons. As an apprentice of his father’s Jonathan would help take orders and clean out the fire until he was old enough and more experienced enough to actually start making the items. Some of the items people would request where horseshoes, and parts for carriages. Shovels or other construction tools used for building had also been made in the blacksmith’s shop too. The men would start their work at around five or six o’clock in the morning and work as late as eight or nine o’clock.
During the workday Jonathan and his father, Joseph, would stop for a lunch break and come home or pack a lunch and eat with the other men from the local neighborhood shops. At dinnertime the guys would come home and the wife would have had set the table already with warm biscuits and soup or a meat. Also the meal consisted of milk fresh from the family cow and freshly churned butter. Tea, water, or beer had also been an option for drinks during the time period of the Davis family. As Jonathan grew up he became an amazayn blacksmith and had married an extraordinharry woman named Maria. He had eight children and they owned his fathers shop together in a very beautiful elegant house in the town center.

Dominique Rattelade