Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845 August 2nd - Another shower Rain We are pulling up fence where the ^windwind Blew down last night, & toping Tobacco & Expect to Sew Turnip Patch this evening - put up steps at chamber doder^door this Branch Camp branch So called as high as I ever saw it in my life

3 good showers Rain about here today

4. Sun shng shining grubing & cutting on Branch, Halling manure to turnip Patch & Rails for Hog Pen

6th Yesterday Rained moderate and we Rep =lanted the Lot at Lilas House & the granary Lot & began to Hill up Lots & new ground - Fed shoemaking Henry cutting on branch alse breaking flax Phil gone to shop

9th. Hilling up new ground Tobacco Plowing Greens in Garden

18th. The weather has generally been seasonable since the 1st August. Working Out Garden this morning. Went to Lynchburg 13th & 14 to get Paints to Pain[t] House,-

21. Rains every night or day & sometimes both machine got out Mrs. Hunts, wheat woodings machine Wrote to Mr Taylor Painter to come the 15th & do our work.

1866 Janry 22nd. Malling in new Gro[und …] wood when he Came back from the [ …] & flour went mules & wagon, - roads very [ …] 2 Blocks to S. Stone meeting House for Step[s… ] Doors weather has moderated very much,

23rd, Janry 1866. Have been malling to day & Halling wood out of new ground, made dog House to day Jerry Came down to day moderate day & no rain or snow.

24th Raining this morning & nearly all night quite a day of Rain & cold, cloudy & dark, making Bars & getting off Sorghum Seed - cant do much –

25. Rained nearly all night, a little freese this morning Ben Raking up manure cleaning Out Stables Balancing malling to day – Pride going to Cap^t Wooding to see Something about going to School to new London, heard nothing from Cap^t Wooding about the school

26th malling in new Ground Ben raking up manure then cutting up trees in new ground tolerable day I went to Cedar Hill old place & Rolands to see about makings shoes for Pride, Bybee gone to Motleys Carried all the Cotton to have Picked Jerry at home at new ground I bro^t home filling some bottles my Tin Box, Varnish & foot a[?],– lent Jerry Bill I rode his Horse home

27 Still Cloudy & like for rain or snow, Pride & me made 6 Hens nest, finished malling, halled out straw 2 days this week, the sun not seen 3 days not seen much cloudy nearly all the week repairing Gear House nailing on Boards

28th clouday day did not see the sun

29th. Snowed Saturday evening & night weather moderate Began to clean up new ground in fresh field Sun shining to day, young Sow in Granary lot had 5 Pigs Sunday morning very littely the Large young sow bro^t from Cedar Hill has been sick 4 days I think she is a little better this morning

30th. Shrubing p^s new ground in fresh field, snow nearly g[one]

30st Halling Leaves 2 Teams to day

31st Shrubing in new ground in fresh field runin[g] 1 Double Plow to day –

upon the Shucks Snowing yet stoped snowing about 12 or 1 oclock Snow 3 or 4 inches Deep

Feby 6th Sam hauling wood in evening for himself & me some I expect

— 7th. Snow about 4 inches deep very cold tolerable clear & cold this morning

8th. Cutting in new ground all day & I went to Mr James Kelley - Nannie _{& Bro^t Joe with her}come home yesterday

9th Striping Tobacco in old prize Barn Millard W left & did know when _{to strip Richards Tobacco}he would return

10th. Hauled Straw this morning & 1 Stack fodder Cutting in new ground, to day & trying to finish snow nearly gone Did not get done Cutting in new ground I went to Mount Airy to day to get P. Pints

11th. I went to S S Meeting

12 Rained all night & Raining this morning

13. Cloudy this morning Cutting rail lumber On Out Side fence next to Mr Lewiss Martin Broke his axe to day Raining to night Joseph Richard son here Come home with Nannie last week I went to Mr Woodings to see Liza sick & then went to burning brush with Lewis

14th. We all Striped in old prize barn nearly done Striping all Sam has there Snow about 3 inches deep with hail Very Sloppy & disagreeable to day

15. Striped all we had in order & Went to Richards Barn & Striped a little thats Was down & in order = finished by 12 oclock 16th & then went to Cutting in new ground cleared off & weather moderate

17th Friday Nannie gone up John R Whiteheads Edd carried her Joe Our folks are Cutting Rail Timber in John's ^(field Rained & Hailed a little Dark night

18th Raining tremendous hard ever since about day Break this morning then cleared off