Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845 March 6th Fanny W Catharine S & Jacob P Graves starts to school to Mr Stanfield this day. F. W. goes at $1.50 pr month the other two at $1 pr mo 20 days to the month pay by the mo counting only the days they go to school-----

This day 6 march all 2 go !School attendance, spring 1845 |!Date |! Notes|Days| |------|-------|-----:|

Friday 7	3 went two days this week	2
" 14	3 went two days this week	2
" 21	2 went 5 days this week	5
" "	F. W. went 2 days this week	2
" 28	3 went 4 days this week	4
Friday April 4	3 went 5 days this week	5
" 11	3 went 5 days this week	5
" 18	3 went 5 days this week	5
" 25	3 went 5 days this week	5

at Mr Stanfields

!School attendance, spring 1845 (continued) |!Date |! Notes|Days| |------|-------|-----:|

May 2	Went all the week 3 5 days	5
" 9	Went 1 day this week 3	1
16	Went 2 days this week	2
" 23	Went 5 days this week 3	5
" 30	F W went 3 days
Jacob & Catharine 2 went 5
June 6	F. W. went one day this week
" "	J. P. & C. S. went 4 days " "
" 13	went 1 day 3 sch	1
" 20	3 went 4 days this week	4
" 27	3 went 3 days this week	3

15th Working on Our Road this morning Digging Irish potatoes & beeting Peaches working oat garden & drying fruit about this time 16th Meeting at S. S. M

17 Went to Court & stayed till Tuesday night the Suit of Moon ags^t me taken out of Court & referred[?]each man paying his Own Cost. Worming & succoring Tobacco

19 began to still again

20 Still treding out wheat ^{& finished}& Digging Irish Potatoes & Drying fruit etc etc etc

21st treading wheat & stilling & Drying fruit

22nd Finished treading wheat & stilling

23 Sunday Rained this evening 2 good showers

24th Sewed turnip Patch Over, & also in garden toping & succoring & worming Tobacco

25. Raining this morning & all night making Baskets, shoeing making for C.S. & spining etc etc Wind cool & from N.W.

26 Succoring Tobacco & Sent to mill in the evening began to Pull fodder in big field

27th Pulling fodder in big field yesterday lent Mr. Crews Lady Jane to go to Mill

28. Beating cider etc etc

29. worming new ground Tobacco & Tying up fodder

30. Sunday - weather seasonable this week cloudy nearly every^{& raining}day

31. Pulling fodder & finished big field.

Sept 1st Pulling fodder & succoring Tobacco

- 2. Phil gone to mill 2 Bags & carried one stack to be sawed into squared edged Plank

3 about Fodder & succoring & worming^tobacco

4 Saving Fodder & in Tobacco

5th Still the same & not done pulling yet, put savining about 8 stacks.

18 Aug 1847 Catharine Spiller started to Pine_ =ville to Miss L Wilson’s School at Pineville Academy. Board at Mr & Mrs Clark @ $7 pr month $10 for Tuition of 5 months - Board & Tuition $9 pr month - fine weather

23rd Too wet to Thrash wet. Succoring & worming & Topping Tobacco on Branches here & at Johns

25 Rained all day yesterday yet cloudy succoring^worming& toping^{ground etc}new Jacob P Graves starts to Mr. Waddel to school @ not quite $1 pr. month for the time he goes.

27 Thrashed out our wheat

30 Cloudy & foggy this morning succoring & topping Tobacco this morning Rained very hard Saturday evening —

31 Talton & Henry put up chimney to House for Jane. began Monday 29 & worked 2½ days & went Home sick

Sep 1st Pulling fodder in fresh ground & cutting Buck Wheat there yesterday alse & Fed went to Mr Hunt to pay for Epp & Allen helping me to thrash our wheat —

2 Pulling Fodder in big field to day Tying up Blade fodder etc etc Ann & Jane in House. Henry at Mr. Lewis^{Raising barn}

3 Worming & succoring Tobacco this morning Henry gone to mill weather good

4 Succoring Tobacco & worming to day.

6 Succoring & worming Tobacco weather^fine

17 Been succoring Tobacco & Finished Pulling Fodder 15th now stacking

1847 Dec. 16th Striping Tobacco - this morning. sent Colo Dickinson for toll wheat for machining 5 Bushels white wheat. Made 99½ Bushels began to snow in the evening & continued till sometime in the might. Snow 8 or 9 Inches Deep where it has not melted

17th striping Tobacco in middle barn expect to finished by 11 oclock - to day weather not very cold, still cloudy

21. began to snow again last night about 11 oclock & snowing yet this morning. about 3 or 4 Inches Deep this morning. no Tobacco down doing but little

22nd Snow from 6 to 8 Inch Deep Swingling flax shoemaking & spining.

24 Shoemaking & spining shelling corn Started Henry & Jacob after Catharine Spiller at Mrs Clarks, come home in night

25. Christmas day cold & cloudy

26. cold etc fun day —

27. Still cold & cloudy went to Mr Lewis’s & Mrs Smith & Mrs Hunts

28. Snowed a little last night but this morning clear & Cold — ReC from Mr. Strickland, Misses Albrights Shernerd etc agent $136 for Hire of Joe & John 1847 tho this Bond was only for $126 they pd. us more because they pd others more, & I this day pd the $136 to Mrs Coleman at Mrs Hunts ——etc——yesterday—

30 Killed Hogs this morning Sent Fed to shop with Cart alse & Ann shrubbing for corn -

31st Cloudy & Rainy taking down ^{Barn of Tobacco}new ground

1849 Feby 9th cleared off & weather moderate malling car^d wood out of new ground

10 clear & a fine day moderate

11 cloudy & like for Rain or snow malling & Plowing, for corn. alse^{corn Land}shrubing

17. Have been malling in new ground & Plowing ½ this day since 11th. Halling wood leaves Hay to granary for seed, & Halled up Oats etc. yesterday & to day burnt Plant Bed in big new ground & sewed & covered it this day

18. This morning snowing weather cold Had 5 lambs & lost 3 to this day -

20 went to Court yesterday 19. qualified as Exec. to Mr ^Jere M^cCullocks will weather cold & Clear snow 3 or 4 Inches^deep shoemaking making swingling flax spining & making Bars etc etc to day sowing clover seed etc swingling fax & spining — cloudy & like for snow

22 Snowed again Monday evening & this morning again snow about 4 Inches deep yesterday & to day striping Tobacco in new ground barn got out our seed Oats yesterday, 3 stacks single

23 Finished new ground barn 12 oclock taking some down in prize barn & shelling corn still cloudy, snow melting

24 striping Tobacco in Prize barn weather moderate snow melting my wife & Cate & Jerry gone to Mrs M^cCullock

26 cloudy & like for Rain or snow. gone to mill malling & cutting Logs for barn - —