September 19, 1857 - September 26, 1857

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1857 Sept 19th & 20th Went to meeting our folks
Tyed up fodder & cutting tops till it rained
& wormed & succored Tobacco till night on
Saturday Fannie WF. & Kate S & Jeremiah W
Graves
gave in their experience & on Sunday
the 20th was Baptised by Bro Mason, Little
Jerry
got a fall after carriage & hurt
himself very much
and sick very Ill & on
MondayFuneral Preached by Elder JB Hardwick 2nd Saml 12 Ch 23rd V. 21st Died about 2 Oclock

21st. Wormed & succoring Tobacco Cut tops pt of day

22nd Rained nearly all day carried Jerry to
Capt Fitzgeralds, worming & succoring Tobacco

23rd Began to Cut Tobacco & attended to fodder
at mountain, cleared off very pretty &
Mr Hardwick Preached Jerrys Funeral & he was
Buried Cutting Tobacco & Hung all Jerrys &
Nannies & began to Cut at Johns Branch
Cut 950 stacks Johns branch opened Fodder etc

24th Cutting Tobacco on Johns s branch Henry
took all day to go to carry Fannie home
stacked only 1 stack fodder - last night

25. Worming & succoring at new ground opened
Fodder Jordan gone to mill 5 Bus corn
Sandy Cutting scaffold at Johns branch
Henry & claiborne fixing new Barn to
put Tobacco in

25th Finished this morning cutting & hanging Johns
branch first cutting wormed & succored Tobacco
at mountain in morning Sent to mill 5 Bus
corn for meal, stacked fodder last night
& sent Robin & Clay to shop etc

26th moving Tobacco from old prize Barn to new
wormed & succored at new ground Sent Fillmore
to shop greased horses for snits this day
Calf has got his Leg Broke

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fransalman

2 Samuel 12: 23 - “But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

fransalman

Jeremiah Fitzgerald was buried in the Fitzgerald family cemetery at the home of Capt. Edmond Fitzgerald, Fannie's father-in-law.