Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1846 April 4th Planting Snaps & Corn in Garden Sewed flax in second years Ground

6 Sewed Pepper finished sewing oats. Fed Coltering in new ground alse & Mallisa hilling Philip going to mill & shop all day

7. Plowing for corn Coltering & hilling in new ground Phil gone to Mr McCullock after Sweet Potatoe Seed ours all rotten Weather very pretty, ground a little hard Lady Jane Lame - 8 Of our wild hogs come up this morning, (4 out yet,

8 this morning raining, our Tobacco in order prizing short Tobacco & Packing good & fine this day, quite a cold rain soon this morning warm an elegant season

9th Cleared off cool, took all of our Tobacco^down nearly done prizing Lugs & short Henry & Lila plowing for corn, Phil halling manure on Sweet & Irish Potatoe Patch, - have been packing down good & fine Tobacco to day

10 Plowing for corn coltering & hilling in new ground all of our wild hogs up

11th this morning & yesterday warm & cloudy rained a little elegant weather for every thing work the same as yesterday, except in the evening to finish coltering lot at fodder stack

12th Raining this morning Manured our Plant Beds yesterday ([illegible] this day in

1846 April 22nd Planting on side below house Fine weather warm & ground getting a little dry - 3 Swarms bees to this day -

23rd Planting corn on this side Branch

24 Finished this evening Planting Corn all but a little on Branch

25 Cleaning up on Branch & Planted Irish Potatoes in Garden & went to Mill —

26. Tobacco Plants Looks well some leaves as large as a quarter of a Doll. Collard plants plenty Large to set out, -

27. began to prize good Tobacco, manured plant Beds, planted Irish Potatoes & one square Greens in Garden & began to plant cotton, - Breaking up Tobacco Lot by Granary - halled fodder

28 Raining prizing Tobacco finished Planting cotton etc. Fed shoemaking my wife gone to Mrs Hunts -

29. Rained nearly all night ground very wet this morning. making up Cross fence in the field, prizing fine Tobacco & Good to day.

30. Halling & Plowing for Tobacco

May 1st Finished prizing good fine & Lugs this day & nearly done short Tobacco

2 Plowing for Tobacco. Hilling in new ground

1846 May 3rd We went to S. S. M. H. to Mr. J. McH anys & Wm Lovelaces funeral Preached by by Bro Hubbard & Mr McLaughlin Weather fine & good growing weather

4 Coltering on Branch, Hilling in new ground -

5. Coltering on Branch with steers Henry & Andrew Crews Coltering in little second years ground above Granary & in second years land at new ground

6th Finished Hilling new ground 12 Oclock to day 2 Colters on Branch & 1 in second years ground 7th Hilling above granary

7th Began yesterday at 12. Henry finish ing Coltering one way on way^Branchby 12 today Fed Halling out manure to day — Phil Hilling, went to mill to day —

8 Fed Halling out manure Henry & Phil Coltering & laying off second yrs land Balance Hilling of it An Elegant Rain this evening Set out our garden in Greens before the Rain to day —

9th Fencing & Picking mountain Plant Beds & made a beginning to Plant Tobacco this morning in new ground Fly & chintz in wheat, which bid fair for a crop till lately corn sellling at from $3 1/2 to $5.

==1845 Nov 13th Federicks Account==

Date	Note	Amount
Cr by 38 lb Blade @ 3/-	2.19
" 1/2 Bbl in years corn
1 1/2 bushels in years	1.65
1/2 bushel Nubbins	.10
Running Sum	1
paid Fanny White for	$2.94
1845	Bed quilt	50
Dec 27	to cash paid by you on Christmas	50
1846 April 12th	Dr to cash paid for sweet potatoes to Mr McCullock	13
June 2nd	1 quart mollasses	19
Oct 3	3lb bag sugar	38

==Mr Lains Toms Account==

1845 Nov 13	Cr by 65lb Blade fodder @ 3/-	0.32 1/2
"	110 hay @ 0/3	0.43
1/2 Bbl corn @ $3 pbbl	1.50
Dr take off for Halling	12
Due Tom	$2.13

Jeremiah W Graves

Paid in full to Abram 22nd Decem 1845

==Mrs Hendricks Abram==

Date	Note	Amount
Nov 13th 1845	Cr by 179lb Hay @ 2/3	0.65
" "	53lb fodder @ 3/-	0.26
"	1/2 bbl corn @ $3/-	1.50
Halling corn @ hay	0.13
1 Hhd	0.37
Due Abram	$1.91

1846 Sept 7th Weather has been quite wet the past week but now fair & warm We have 2 stacks fodder ready to stack & on days pulled more & have not cut any tops yet

8 Finished pulling fodder & have got 8 stacks of fodder stack & 2 in House & 2 more to stack

9 Cutting tops this day & worming & succoring Tobacco — Doct Miller has been 2 times to see Phil & furnished some medicine came this morning when I did not look for him — Malissa also sick

10 Cutting tops all day & tying them up - in Big field

11th become uneasy & sent for Doct Miller again for Phil he is quite sick

12th Stayed all night & put a Blister on him.

13. Doct Miller has been 4 or 5 times to see Phil & he is quite low

14 Cutting tops & finished succoring

15 Succoring Tobacco - 16 succoring Tobacco & have not cut any Tobacco yet Phil very low — wrote to Fanny W by Bro Hubbard sent her 50¢

16 Phil Died Just before day 17th & buried in evening, weather changeable

17. Succoring Tobacco 18th, weather cool

19. began to Cut Tobacco yesterday on Branch & will Keep on till one get over. finished on Branch & began in Lot to day. Fed gone to mill new corn

20th Callahan Died this morning

21st Cutting Tobacco & this morning wrote to