Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1870 March 22 My Young steers Bushing in Oats — — — I went to Wm McHaneys after Dinner this evening — —

23 Fixing ground & all hands planting Potatoes Irish, Plowing Garden weather tolerable Nannie & Sallie gone to Mr Woodings Beautiful weather to day wind from NW

24 Sewing oats by Owens Barn Bill plowing

25 Sewing Oats again to day I went to old place & Whiteheads Store this evening planted Peas Beets & onions etc Mr Pringle came here 24th Inst. March & Grafted 30 or upwards of apple slips from Mr Kelleys & 6 or 8 dwarf Pears & 2 slips July apples here in this tree on hill towards Bridge corner of yard

26 I went to Millers Mill to day carried 6 Bus wheat for myself a BBbl flour ½ Bbl wheat lent Rich^d Carr^d 2 Turns 1 Bbl corn for us meal 1 Turn for Keatts of corn & one for Sam of corn for meal got it all, & brot it Home, Keatts & Sam went to Jennings Lains to help Roll Logs, Rained Very hard all the evening, -

27th Stayed at home Ed went to Jacobs to day

28 29th Burning Log Heaps this morning Little cloudy this morning then Sewing Oats part of the day

30 Sewing Oats & will get done all we have got out this evening

31st Raining all day Halled up stack oats on Hill got out pt of them & put balance in cutting House to feed on Keatts got my waggon & mules gone after wheat straw at Shields to feed the cow he has

Aprl 1st Cloudy ^{Keatts went home to striped his toba before night too} all day Striping Tobacco Sam & Ben

2 striping Tobacco Sam & Ben helping Raining

3 Raining a little all day ground Very wet I wrote 3 letters this week 1 to Jonathan Graves Clifton Hill [Mo?] 1 to Alo[n]zo Hunt Lynchg & alice Hunt

1870 April 4th I went to old place waggon started from there with Load of Lugs Jesse Kelley with waggon to Lynchg gave him $2 for toll he carries Butter & $183 Dollars for C A Hunt & to get his Rec^tfor $192 34/100 Letter written to Rucker Ha[nner?] & Snead to sell load Tobacco sent Statement & money - back by Jesse J Kelley - Sent for allum water for Mattie Herrings for Sam Gilbert & 1 No 12 oven top Jacob P Graves Carried Sam $50 Note to Lynchg to See if it was good, & get some Snowed & quite cold to day wind very cool Striping Tobacco all hands Sam & Ben too

5 Halling wood & Rails out of new ground to day Waggon & cart & Hauled till night cloudy all day Jere. H Graves sent Ed & Buggy down for Nannie Mott Sick all night of the 4th April 1870

6th Plowing corn land to day Keatts & Ben Keatts Laying off & Bedding for corn still cloudy Sam Caroline & Nat Raking leaves in new ground to day weather more moderate I am here by myself Bob came here last night

7th Plowing for corn again to day

8th All hands Sewing oats 3 Horses & steers to day Beautiful weather yesterday & to day raking & Burning leaves in new ground yesterday look like planting corn now

9th Sam & Keatts Plowing Keatts 2 mules on Sam next to woods Halled up 1 stack fodder this morning, I went to S S meeting no Preaching nothing heard from Jeres & Nannie since She went up there Rained this morning but few people at meeting Still cloudy

10th Raining this morning & quite cool

11th Striping Tobacco all day Sam & Ben helping

12th Finished striping Tobacco in new prize Barn this morning & hung it up & Sam & his family went to the Circus at Whitehead Store Keatts