Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1853 July 26 Fixing waggon off to Lynchg – – Sent by waggon to Lynchg 2 Bags wool to Car^d to Mr Cobbs, weighing 1 Bag weighing 12 lbs fine 1 D^o 27½ lbs Grass, & 10 Doz Eggs for Henry to Sell prizing another Hh^d to day working & Hilling up new ground Tobacco - showery warm weather Cate started to Lynchg, lent her xx $

30. waggon got back last Evening in 3 days from Lynchg cloudy every day this week Hilled up new ground & weeding down 2nd years ground, wormed Tobacco this morning Rained all night last night Still cloudy. we are firing Tobacco Haling heaves Shrubing & Cutting & butting House Logs for barn, Lost my Bull & young Pink lately & one of young steers Suk one sick last week & we gave it a dose of Castor Oil & it got well, I am now going to try it with Buck my young steer – cleared off this evening

31st Beautifull morning clear & fine weather Henry sick yesterday & to day

augt 1st worked Celam to Buggy made Hog pen Plowed & worked Lot Tobacco put out all of Our Tobacco this morning

2 Put Tobacco in house prizing & finished about this 3rd augt & started the waggon to Lynchg cutting house Logs Finished working out Fresh ground Tobacco & Grubbing in fresh field Fine rain the day we started to Lynchg

6 got back Safe & sound Sold Tobacco for $7½ . 10½ . & 13⁷⁵ but weighed light cloudy & like for Rain. top over new ground Tobacco last wednesday

[…] 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 

1866 Novr 21st Jerry delivered 1 Cart Lo[ad …] evening 4 Bub^ls borrowed of me, Mr J M[…] Moses got my yoke steers from Jerrys yesterday & is to give me $50. for them to be paid in 6 months,

22nd I went to Mrs McHaneys to appraise property nobody Came & came home & went to Mill Carried 1 Bb^l Corn & 1 Bushel Wheat, got all & my plank & Hh^ds staves there Carri^d 2 axes for Mr Yates to [unclear] & carried the steel too

23rd Killed 6 our Hogs weighed 850 lb pulled off some Corn, Jordan helped

24, Salted out Hogs Killed Halled up Corn & finished from mountain & pulled it off fixed Bars at Cow pen etc

25 I went to meeting at Rices

26. Cutting down & Picking up Corn Little Henry pulling off about 10 Oclock that is at the stack I went up with Cart to Cedar Hill after Bellows anvil Hammers etc etc to fix up shop & to old place to see Bybee but he was not at home clear pretty weather - Jerry & Sallie went up to Kates Sunday evening & Come back this night, Ned not here to ^day

27th Halling & pulling off Corn -

28th Halling & pulling off Corn Smith here yesterday & to day - to help get up Corn Ned Ditching & cleaning out Ditch from Spring —

29 Finished pulling off Corn at stack & began to shuck Corn Raining ^{to night}a little I went to old place to see about Brandy again & divided it & it come down in the morning - warm weather for the time

30th Shucked Corn to day Fannie & Catherine helped us to day