Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845 April 30th Prizing good Tobacco - Cloudy & like for rain, but dry & Hot Had no rain to Do much good fine middle March - Hilling on Branch

May 1st this morning look a little like rain --Planted one square Greens this morning Small Shower of Rain at night

21 Planted out our Garden in Greens,Plowing up Cotton Patch Rain almost gone dry & cool this day after shower last night; Finished Hilling little new ground on branch

3 Planted cotton & Irish Potatoes

4 Sunday Rained at night. Went to association, Planted Water Mellons, Potatoe Pumpkin etc on 4th Inst

5 replanting Corn on Mountain Manured Plant Beds, Rained, Borrowed 5 3/4 lb bag & all of Sugar of Mrs Ephraim Lewis this day

6th Still cloudy & Raining this morning prizing Tobacco, & Fed Shoemaking

7 Started Lugs & short Tobacco to Lynchg by Mr Montgomery, began to Plow on mountain field Hilling second years ground

Got $ 7 1/2 and $10 - for our Tobacco, On 23rd at night it rained & on 24th we finished planting our new ground & second years - began on Friday to weed corn at stony point. finished at Home, replanted cotton the 24th, Bushed the oats & wheat 23rd

26th returned by Malissa 5 3/4 lb Bro. sugar to Mrs E. Lewis this day I am sick. We are weeding corn.

30th May 1845. Engaged with Mr John R Taylor to paint our house, inside and out in a nice style for the sum of Forty six dollars. I furnishing the Paint as pr bill.

31 May 1845. Smart frost last night see it on the fences & am afraid many things are killed. weather cool indeed & tolerable day —

June 2nd. weather moderated Quite dry frost singed good many things & in some places corn killed to the ground — goard very simbling etc but smartly & cucumber very nearly all killed. Tobacco plants grow slow got 15 or 20,000 to plant yet.

1849 august 19 quite cool this morning. my wife gone to Mrs McCullocks & Catharine S to go to school with Mildred Ann E. McC they Board her for nothing Milly stays here some & so change about, cloudy

20th Milly Ann E. McCullock starts to school to Mrs Walkup same Terms as Catharine S. Raised Henrys House & Forage House near stable Succoring & worming Tobacco this day —

21st Henry & Fed gone to Mrs Lewis to Raise Barn Succoring & worming Tobacco etc etc as Hot a day ^{& night} as I ever felt in my life I think some little appearance of Rain in ^{but did not}evening

22nd clear morning a little foggy in South Topping Tobacco worming & succoring This day Fanny W. went to charlotte with miss Ruths & Jno D Hunt, started last Thursday -- still Hot Mr Martin a clock Doctor stayed here last ^night fixed clock in sitting room gave him a $1- for it

23 Worming Tobacco & Grubing in new ground Henry Hewing down Barn & this House A fine Rain in evening, Lila ^{after morning}spining

24. Same work to day. nearly done grubing

25 Fanny W. returned from charlotte worming Tobacco this morning Shrubing corn field. Henry halling Rails for hog pen

26 went to association Buffaloe clear hot day

27 Henry sick, shrubing corn field

28 worming & succoring Tobacco, & toping Henry still in House clear & dry - Jerry had Crofe Croup last night very^bad,

29. scraping off wheat yard this morning worming & succoring Tobacco. clear & dry Toping tobacco. - went to Mrs Colemans to Hillfield to see Mr East.