Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 3, Book 7

1876 Sec^r 11 Let W^m Graves have my axe to cut with this morning

1877 Feby 7 Mde a bargain wth John [East] to build [some] a houses on Creek $125, March 20 Jacob went from from home [nomon] [yesterd] [?] One day last week & [staid] & staid all night [drikin] moved on the 14 day of november 1876 on Strait stone creek [1877] Jany 29 ^bot two Hogs from Lewis Yates at two dollars a piece Feby the first hung up our meat 28 hams and midlings put hogshead eleven shoulders and one [jole] in box

1876 Novr 24^th Hogs House 3 Killed this morning Socky weighed 167 [lbs] 1 Do Do 95 1 Do Do 115 377 [lbs] 377 [lbs] Hogs Killed [6] [Dec] 1876 Dec^r 6 1 Hog 121 [lbs] 1 Do 105 1 Do 147 [lbs] 1 Do 140 1 Do 127 1 Do 126 1 Do 120 888 ________ 1265 1879 Jan^y 18 Hung up 14 Hams Hung 13 shoulders midling - 13 Do Do 14 Joles 7

1876 Novr 28^th Weight of Jacob Graves Hogs [6 ??] numbers weighing of Hogs 1 Hog. 98 [lbs] 1 Do 84. 80 262 1 Do 73 1 Do 87. 76 236 ________ Salted in Box in [Lumber] 498 House _________ 1877 Feby 20 Bacon took down & in Box for on in Box Smok in Smok House 6 midlings 5 shoulders 3 Ham in Hh^d 4 midlings 6 shoulders for Plantation [???? & [sell] up Stairs to Sell 17 Hams

1879 March [25] sewed clover seed [in] peach orchard and lot we [bished] in booth.