Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1861 Janry 25. cloudy & likely for falling weather

" Janry 26th Rained & hailed last night & this mor =ning Turned cold & snowing & Hailing & about 8 Oclock in morning snowing hard. Finishing striping Tobacco what we have down this morning, & then Mr Chumney will cut me out a pr shoes, double for wet wheather, shelling corn making Brooms etc to day - dreadful weather all this year, & indeed wet all the fall Snowing fast about night & stoped about dark my old sow lost 3 pigs, awful weather, & Keeps snowing allmost every week, or raining, mended Dorans Shoe & Charles, to day, fixed spool frames

27th went to Strait Stone Prayer meeting only 3 there besides myself, Kelley L & Rob^t Yates –

28th Cutting & malling in new ground on Hill next to wheat field, I went to Plantation met Pal coming after me, his mama sick, sent Jordan after Doct Thompson A.W. she has something like flux, cold in her bowls & hope nothing serious he gave her a Blue Pill with some opium in it & recommended oil in a day or Two & eat lite, snow dont melt but little, very disagreeable weather

29th I went to Plantation Malissa only tolerable Cutting malling & get some Logs for granary

30. Getting Logs for Granary I staid at home Lila sick. Sent for Mrs Coleman to see her

31st Covering Kitchen to day all hands, sent to Mill got my bag for overseer his sent is ours standing^Turn Little Henry Sick, Malissa better & nearly well Lila not much the matter with her

Feby 1st 1861. covering Kitchen got along badly yesterday, looks likely for falling weather this morning began to Rain about 12 Halled stack fodder from Peach Orchard Henry