Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1861 May 6th began to Bed Cotton Patch halled some wood & scattering manure a little Raining in evening too hard to work out Mr Chumney & Bob in shop nearly all day Pinting 2 colters, pinting 3 Harrow Teeth etc mended Poker making Some Staples etc 5 Staples mended 1 clevice & pin, fixed 3 other Harrow Teeth, sharpend 4 H Hoes made some lap links mended up our Traces mended some time ago 2 Swingletrees put Iron on etc pinted 2 colters sometime ago. Mr Yates shod my mare Hester before & steeled 2 H Hoes for Cedar Hill making some lap links etc.

7th Putting up Scare Crows claiborne halling wood Chumney at work in shop this morning - fixing Cotton Patch Plowing Potatoes Beding Garden for Greens etc cleared off but very cool clary had a calf a few days ago, Planted some greens & Potatoes & did not begin to Plant Cotton Henry planting his corn. I went to aspen Carried Salt there to day –

8th Planting Irish Potatoes for late use Planted Cotton Broom corn & Sugar cane, water mellon Mus. mellon & cucumber simblings Greens, Peas etc etc Plowing up Tobacco Lot, getting wood etc etc

9th Mr Chumney & bob fixed prize beam this morning & at work on Carriage House, Henry & Washington at work coltering Second yrs land balance hilling let Mr Chumney have 2 Bundles Oats to feed Horse at his house Sent 1 Bushel Wheat for me to day

10th I went Patrolling last night nearly all night Plowed Irish Potatoes & Planted Some more Greens Coltering in fresh ground & Hilling Raining Beautifully to day doing some work in shop making Brooms, clem cooking –

11th Fine weather Mr Chumney & Bob at work on Carriage House balance Plowing & Hilling I am going to meeting –