October 5, 1858 - October 11, 1858

1858 Oct 5th This morning cleaning out my
Stable cleaning out Crews Barn etc etc
Cut & Hang all Tobacco next to overseers
700 sticks. overseer Riving Boards for
new Barn on mountain chinking
etc,- Riving Tobacco sticks p^t of day

6th. Rained a little last night & this
morning. put up Hog in pen &
Turned Balance out in woods 18 or
19 Big Hogs & Sows & 27 or 28 Pigs
except Hunts sow & Pigs & shoats in
pasture the shoats to be altered
Daubing mountain Barn etc Buck
went to mill this morning & brot 4
Bags meal carried 2 Turns 4 Bus. corn
for meal at mill & then he halled
wood & Picked out Cotton cloudy &
like for Rain nearly all day –

8th I have been to Cedar Hill 7 & 8 beeting
Cider etc etc, Cutt all our Tobacco worked
on overseers House etc etc & not much frost
This morning If any, all my Hogs up this
morning, we cut Johns’ Branch ne ground at
mountain & mountain fresh ground the 8 Inst.
We have 2 or 3 Barrels of cider for vinegar^{in all}
Sallie came from Fannies this day, they
all came down & Brot her this evening

9th went to meeting at Strait Stone, Daubed
& shingled overseers house nearly halled Rocks
in evening cut down corn & Piled Pea vine [ink spot]

10 went to meeting at at S. Stone

11th Halling up Tobacco & filling Barn in
fresh ground out of Lot filling Crews Barn
with last cutting there & new Barn on mountain
with last cutting at mountain new ground