Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

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 Oct 4 Stacking our tops Talton here finishing chimney — weather fine^businessfor

5. Housing lot Tobacco this day. —

6th Raining this day —

7 Thundered & Rained nearly all day & in the evening the most sever Thunder & lightening I most ever saw –

8th Turned cooler & the sun shining this morning ground very wet - etc etc

9 Went down with Talton to see Land cutting Our Buck wheat & housed Tobacco Second cutting - weather still moderate Our new ground Tobacco still standing nearly ½ of it.

11 began to Pull fresh ground corn, this morning cloudy & like for Rain, warm, Halled up 5 loads Corn yesterday, made 11 in fresh ground

15 Frost this morning cut all our Tobacco yesterday Hanging & Housing this day

16 sewed second years Tobacco Land in wheat - 3 bushels. Choping round the stumps & cutting off Bushes Housed 20 Barrels Corn

18 Plowing for wheat Housing Load corn fresh ground. Made 25 Bbls Digging sweet Potatoes this morning

19 weather fine about this time,-

23. 59 Bushels cleaned out, sold, in 2 Hh^ds & used together to this day

26th myself & wife & Jacob Jerry & Henry started for Orange went on by the way of Lynchg & Charlottesville had a good trip & got to my Fathers in Orange on Saturday before night. Jacob & myself went to Capt Boxleys on the 9th Nov 1847. We started back for home by the way of Louisa CH

Cartersville etc & arrived home Saturday night after dark^{the 13th Nov}& found all well & doing ^{staying at Mr Overbys all night}well being from home about 3 weeks. Sewed 19 or 20 Bushels wheat in Johns’s field ^{& all} while we were gone^{sewed 6 Bus.}, Our friend Mr John G Lewis attended to our business while we were absent all the little growth cut in our new ground

15th began to get up Our Corn —

16. puling up Irish Potatoes & Greens this^day weather very good Henry & Jacob gone to mill —————

22, Shucking & Housing corn most of last^week this morning Killed Bull,

24th Rained all night last night & most of the day yesterday. Striping Tobacco & shoe making - Killed a Beef Harry monday

22nd Let Mr. Myers have 81 lbs weighed about 375 lbs have not finished our corn yet —

Dec 1st Rained to day & nearly Halled up all Our Corn - Shoemaking & Spining etc etc —————

2nd Rained all night & this morning Striping Tobacco & shoemaking

Dec 6 Last Friday 3rd Fed went to shoemaking at Mrs Hunt shucking & Housing our corn & finished this day & began to put up Our Turnips

8. Killed 6 Hogs this day & began to cut big growth in new ground & Grubbing & Halling wood

11 Striping Tobacco, been cutting big growth in new ground 2 days [unclear]. weather warm, & cloudy let Mr. Crews have ½ Bus. salt for 100 lbs fodder to salt his Pork

13th Striped Tobacco, cloudy & Rainy

14 Striping D^o & Cloudy & Rainy

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

1848 Jany 14th Sent 1 Log 10 feet long for Hh^ds staves & also 3 Bushels wheat for flour, & after 3 Bags meal & 1 chop for cows Burnt last night cutting in new ground Jerry Smith on his hands etc etc.

15 Finished Cutting little growth in Small new ground this day - cloudy

16 Raining nearly all day this day

17 Cutting big growth on side Path going to Kings place - cold & cloudy

18. cutting in Ditto ———

19 Cutting & Halling wood Sent Henry Monday 17th to Mr Hunts for Iron to put on waggon wheels,

20th Cutting wood to burn plant Beds above our House & gone after waggon at shop weather Cold but fair, N my D. gone to Mrs^Coleman

21 & 22nd Burnt & finished plant Bed above House, Largest one

23rd Beautiful day Sunday

24 Cutting up old Logs in new ground began to mall, treading out Buck wheat, cloudy & like for Rain 4 of our sows has 22 Pigs this day

25 cloudy this morning, sent Henry to mill with 20 Logs, Balance striping Tobacco sent 3 Bbl corn 2½ Bus. Buck wheat & ½ Bus ^{for Homminy} Finished striping new ground Barn done all but prize Barn - wood etc

28 Halling leaves & malling, piling

29. Malling, piling wood & Plowing weather windy & moderate

30 cloudy & cold - like for Rain or Snow.