Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

[…] 1866 Sewing wheat choping around […], where wheat sewed, nannie & me [w]ent to S. S. meeting Bro. Lacy Preached & accepted the care of the Church 1867 to Preach Twice in the month, - Bro Glass did not Come

11th went to S S meeting Bro Lacy Preached

12th. Sewing wheat & finished up here by near Barn. Cutting down Corn in corner next to woods going to Stoney p[o]int for wheat —

13th Halling up Corn & Henry preparing the Same but did not get it ready. I went up to Jerrys,Ned Cobbs Came to Ditch 6 by 2½ or 3 feet deep & wide I find him new Ditch I am to give him 10 Cents a yard old Ditch cleaning out & straitening 4 Cents pr yard I find him 3 or 4 of spotted Sows Pigs in Pasture or gone one I have never Seen them Since I turn them out, 3 Black & 3 Yellows one Comes up

14 Shucked out some corn & put away our Greens & seed cabbage

15. began to Cut down Corn at mou tain Spring & it rained nearly all day I went up to Blanks s to measure corn rained & throwed us out –

16 Made Hog pen & got wood little Henry Sick. all day I give him medicine I went up to Blanks’s & finished measuring corn cloudy & like for rain,

17th Cutting down & piling Corn at mountain spring

18 I went to meeting S.S. Mr Smith preached

19. I am going to court, Henry went to Mill^{for himself} Cutting down corn at mountain field –

20th I Come home Tuesday night Halling up & Pulling of corn to day etc. Billy at work

[2]1st Piling & Halling & Pulling of Corn from mountain field Billy & Ned here Miss M Neale [J]ames Shields delivered Corn borrowed to day 

[…]r 30th Did not finish shucking corn […] got up, cleared off quite cold this morning

Saturday 1 Decr 1866 Housing corn all day & did not finish till after night housing what we shucked friday

2nd We stayed at home all day

3 Shucked & housed Corn & finished what we had halled up cloudy & like for rain

4th. Rained last night hard, Cutting & Halling wood & then pulling Corn & Halling – up cleared off very pretty

5 Halled up 2 Loads Corn yesterday & 4 Loads to day. ^{making 6 Loads} I went to Starkey after that clear pretty weather

6 Cutting & Halling Corn 4 Loads to day making 8 Loads, Sent Henry after my Sole Leather to ^Starkeys

8 Finished Halling up Corn about the 8th Getting some wood halled up some fodder

10 Invited some hands to help me shuck Corn Several came Mr E G L did not help at all Mr Starkey Came & John Keatts

11th Shucked again & finished Mr Starkey Mr Marshall came & finished a little in the night

12 put away shucks getting a little wood & Housing Corn to day – Cold weather sent $30 by Mr Bybee to Lynchg to buy Guano 2 Doz Eggs 1 Bus flax seed & 2 Turkeys to sell & lent him 2 new Bags

13th Finished Housing Corn, made about 60 Bb^ls good & 12 Barrels nubbins & got 1 Load wood Put 3 Barrels good & 7 or 8 Bb^ls nubbins in big Corn House on Hill & after getting all I lent out got 65 or Barrels good Corn in House on Road. all shattered & 4 Barrels nubbins in Granary marked 7 Pigs 1 got out not making marked & Put up 1 Hog more in garden to Kill & 1 Pig for House pig

[…] 27 Very Cold & windy I went to […] C Keatts & Rented that Land to him & [re]turned home, Henry not here to feed wind from N West

28th Very Cold day & wind from N West

29th Cold & cloudy not so windy this day & like for Snow or Rain to night I have not engaged hands for next year for myself nor Mr Hunts place

30th cloudy & like for falling weather

31st Snowed last night about 2 Inches Deep Jerry stayed here last night

1st Janry 1867 Still cloudy & snowed a little I went to old place to day & settled with Bybee for Lynchg Trip in Decmr

2nd Snowing this morning my hogs has not been up for Several days major Boler Came ^{here to live}

3rd Major Boler Came here yesterday & set in for the year 1867 $91.25 to day we done nothing but feed Cut wood etc Henry & family left here yesterday Snow about shoe Deep, disagreeable weather found my Hogs yesterday & they Came up this morning - cloudy weather

4 cleared off & very pretty dayMajor is Halling manure out of my stale in Garden to day snow melted some engaged with Mr H Dalton to live with me this year to move tomorrow

5. I went to old place hired Tom & Jordan for this year to work there major Cut up wood & shucks Cold day

6 Major went home, more moderate weather

7 Major Cutting in new ground Mr Dalton moved here 1 Load this evening Wyatt Hunt came here night is to work 2 or 3 months at $8 pr month, Richard & myself fixed door to Shelling room & Gate next to my stable weather more moderate

1833 my ²³⁸ wife was sick better than a week about the middle of May a little after I had a severe spell & one the 31th May the same month Fanny white was taken sick & she still is very sick June 1st 1833 = Doct White came to see my wife 2 or 3 times in 1833 & he came to see Fanny white about Twice and the last of Feby 1835 he came once to see ^{once [ma]} & came to see my wife the 6th march 18[35] she was taken sick on monday night 2nd March 1835, On Friday the 6th he came in the snow about ½ leg deep stayed all night next day went to Mr Lewis s came back about 10 Oclock at night stayed all night again Sunday 8th w[ent] to Mr Lewis again & from there he we[nt] to Mr Beacons wife & came back to my house on Monday 9th stayed Tuesday & till Wednesday about one oclock & went to Mr Deacons again, came back to my House on Thursday evening stayed all night & till about one oclock Friday & left – Snow nearly gone –

Doct Rawleigh White D^r 1835 To JW Graves D^o June 1st To 6 Barrels Corn @ $2.50 $15.00 1836 Janry Doct White came once to See Fanny White & Louisa Sometime last Summer Jany 2 ¹⁸³⁶ Doct White came yesterday the 1st to See Henry - left this evening came once more to see Henry making 2 Visits 1836 Oct 11th Doct ^R White D^r To 1 Pied steer $20