Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

30th & 31st Augt. worming & succoring Tobacco Machine came here 31st from Mr Lewis’s about 11 oclock & by the time we got a start it commenced Raining, & Rained a good shower we carried the wheat with straw after we discover=ed that it was going to be wet we then wound up & it Rained sure enough till in^nightthe

1st Sept. ground very wet & the machine doing nothing spining etc etc — Began to machine wheat between 1 & 2 oclock in evening till night put up 4 Stacks straw Kit & Mr. Lewis 3 hands come ——

2 Fannie W. & Cate went to Greenfield Jerry Better than he has been for several days

3. began again to Thrash wheat fine day Kit Mr Lewis s 3 Hands & 2 from Mrs Hunts came & we finished & carried the machine to James Whiteheads got done about night 1½ days Thrashing Our crop wheat

4 alse & Ann gone to Mrs Coleman to Pull fodder & its Turned out to be cloudy & a little rainy, succoring & worming Tobacco Henry gone to Mrs Hunt after 10½ Bushels corn making 4 Bbls lent me — Fanned out some wheat to make flour this morning — alse & ann returned at 12

5. worming & succoring & toping Tobacco on Branch & Lot. Henry gone to Glenns Mill 10 Bus. wheat for flour 5½ Bus. corn for meal. Turned cooler. I am going to Mrs McCullocks & Riceville to day —

6 Pulling Blade fodder after morning all hands my wife went to Mrs Colemans

7 alse gone to Mrs Colemans to Pull fodder worming & succoring Tobacco in new ground Fair & cool this morning ⅓ done Pulling^fodder Mr Myers & Henry getting slabs, Tying up fodder This evening.

17th I went to Court - cold day our folks Plowing 1 Horse Balance in new ground

18th Halling wood with Cart till 12 oclock malling in new ground fine weather

19th malling Lila Plowing - Burning Brush etc alse & Jordan cleaning up in mountain field

20 Halling wood waggon & Cart with waggon myself - Henry gone to John Hunts to Roll logs Balance malling etc etc

21st Raining this morning striping Tobacco in prize Barn trying to done there to day

22 Rained tremendous hard last evening finished striping in prize Barn cleared off in night Sent to Mill 10 Bushels wheat for flour 1 Turn sold overseer for flour & ½ Barrel Corn for overseer also

23rd Moderate weather, malling & sh[r]ubing mountain field Jane sick been complaining for several days

24 malling shrubing & Plowing for corn

26th Jane got out Jane & Lila Plowing Balance Cutting old Logs put Top on Fresh ground Barn

27 Rolled Logs had 2 companies nearly finished, had a fine day clear & warm

28 sent Henry to Mrs Colemans to Roll Logs Jane & Lila Plowing at stony point Balance cleaning out fence Row in new ground Still moderate weather warm etc

March 1st Overseer gone to Capt Fitzgeralds quarters to Roll Logs making new ground fence, ground very wet Henry halling out wood & rails round new ground & to Plant Bed near to it weather cool Winter gone & only one snow the 1st Jany 1 in the whole winter of 1850 & 51

March 2nd tolerable day for beginning of spring my wife Jacob Jerry & Sally gone to Mrs Colemans Cate has been at Mr Fitzgeralds about 3 weeks weeks next monday —

March 3rd Henry gone to Mrs Hunts to Roll Logs Fed gone to mill 1½ Bbls corn ½ Bbl wheat for chop, Plowing at stony Point. Fair moderate weather

1851 Augt 21st Still Cloudy & like for Rain Rained all day yesterday hot put out Mrs McCullocks Tobacco House — made Baskets yesterday & spining — To day Riving slabs & getting Timber worming & succoring new ground Tobacco, —& going to go our Tobacco worming & succoring

22nd Started to the association at Kentuck Meeting House friday saturday monday & friday Rained nearly all the time scarcely finished the business after association, & came home about 12 or 1 Oclock Monday night

26th Still Raining we have been spining making Baskets etc etc yesterday & to day Jobing working on Road about spring overseer cut his foot last friday been in the house nearly ever since, etc —fixing to Raise Barn Give up to Colo Kirby at Laurel Grove at a Bond on John J Bently & his Bro siety for $10 - due several years ago, to have collected by Mr IngRam - Constable

27th Sent 2 Hands to Mrs McCullocks to Raise Tobacco House, clear & cool, our folks spining & Pealing fruit etc etc Mr owen made Jerrys & Sallies shoes —

28. worming &succoring & Toping Tobacco, fixing Logs to Raise House tomorrow I went to CH for Lucy Ann & my wife went to Mrs Hunts

29 Overseer has gone to mill to get Corn of Mr Miller I sent 3 Bushels wheat got^{to be ground like corn} Mr JD Hunt 2½ of our own wheat for flour, & 1 Barrel Corn for myself,- we finished the Barn yesterday & Covered it in & fa[?] up the Door Toping succorig & working out fresh ground clear & Cool -- this morning etc —

1851 Augt 29th my wife going to Mr Fitzgeralds to day I made a Bargain with Mr Johnson Farmer to do carpintinters work for me getting shingles & fixing carriage & Ice House at 3/- pr day

Sept 1st clear & warm finished this day working our fresh ground Tobacco, Toping & worming & succoring too & this evening working out Garden Henry working all day on new Barn - overseer made Jacobs shoes & also last week Sallies & Jerrys – –

3rd began to Pull fodder a little yesterday Daubing & fixing Barns, Owen gone - Henry sick clear & fair I went this evening to Mrs C. JF.^{to Mr F} AW. & _{gone home by 9 ^Ocl}

4 cloudy & like for Rain, Henry in house yet Toping at from 5 to 8 leaves worming & succorig over at this time - etc I am going to Mrs McC to day after Kate she has been there several days

7th Fixing to day scaffolds drawing shingles going to machine attending to fodder etc Mrs McC wool weighs gross 43 lbs cloudy & like for Rain

9th covered shop & Barn worming & succored Tobacco at home at Mrs McC I expected they were fanning wheat, went up there to measure etc & behold they were at work on their carriage House

10th Pulling fodder here ^ ^{^in fresh field-}& there fair & clear

11th Jobing this morning, then Pulled down mountain field fodder got a^done little after 12 Oclock, worming & succoring Tobacco over there gathering Peas spreading flax Tying up fresh field fodder in evening —

12 Pulled fodder at old House place at stony point worming succoring & toping & Tying up Our Blade in evening — I am sick Mrs Hunt went home this morning

18th Decr 1851 Owen moved yesterday very cold weather only set up one Hh^d, new ground near House — very cold on the night of the 18th this night some person broke in my Smoke House drawed the Staple & opened the Door Only taking out Our flour Tub & something like ½ Bus flour & 1 Hogs Head. thats all we ^{back bones & spar Ribs}miss except some

20 Clear & Cold, Halling wood & cutting Jacob & Jordan gone to mill 2 Turns wheat carried leave one of them have the other ground into flour & get one Turn corn meal at mill – –

21st cloudy & cool day Jacob went to Mr Fitzgeralds

22nd This morning snow about 4 or 5 Inches Deep Rained last night & hailed & then snowed all in house to day making brooms spining etc etc —Picking cotton —

23rd Cutting in new ground Some spining Sewed Our Lots back of Garden & by prize barn & Granary in clover seed Timo= =thy & Herds Grass seed – —

24th Cutting in new ground Snow melted but little very cold I am going to Mr Franklins & to see Mr Smith & Dove about the rent of Mrs Clements childrens Land -- etc etc —

24 & 25 Went up to Mr Franklins for Lucy Ann to see about her negroes they are sick 2 of them then I went to Smiths & Doves to Rent the Land to Dove took his Bond & to collect of Smith & Dove got no money at all, stayed at Mr Fitzgeralds

24th at night & come home in Rain 25th in evening

25 Still Raining & Turned warmer

27 Still cloudy & like for Rain or snow, Jacob & Jerry gone to Mr Fitzgerald

29th Still cloudy & like for Rain weather more moderate, Nannie gone to Mrs Colemans & a few days ago to Mrs Hunts, Sent Jordan for my papers —