Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1865 March 9th Buried Lucinda looks like Rain again making new ground fence. Sent Bacon to Depot [...ns] Tax in Kind.

10. Went to S. Stone fast day

11th Went to CH. about getting provisions for Gen. Lees Army 12th Stayed at home fine weather Roads Very muddy & Deep

13th Started to get provisions for Lees army gone all day & expect to go tomorrow

Burnt Plant Bed in new ground

Plowing & halled Rilas after 12 March

Fine weather roads drying [unclear]

15. Been out again on same

Went to plantation brot. up 20 Bus seed Oats some short corn for hogs Some [.er..] Grsss seed to sew. Some cabbage & went to Mount Airy.

Began to sew Oats to day.

17th Rained this day Sewed some Oats & Halled Rails

1870 May 16 Plowed Potatoes Irish & Corn by Patch Plowed Nannie Patch Planted Cotton to day Broom Corn Watermelons Simblings & Cucumber Clear pretty weather hired Mary Smith to day Clabe Ditching in lot

17th I went to Mr Hunts place & shop Keatts coltering Sam Hilling just began to Clabe Corn back & finished Ditching Charles Cut Hay picked up & burning roots in new ground & fresh Nat will chop out our corn by Irish Potatoe Patch

18th Coltering new ground finished 1 way & begun Second Way. Charles & Nat getting roots all day off new ground began to Hill in fresh ground

19. at work in new ground coltering rooting etc I went to fix fence around mountain field for my cattle went to Mr Woodings & Lewis's

20th Turned 6 young Cattle in mountain field marked Millys calf that makes the 6th Jacob Cut sooks Calf this morning & marked it beautiful weather at this time & warm, Clabe & his wife & Lucinda here hilling to day & Nat has been there all day - this evening he is hilling with them thundering nearly ^day all Very Warm day. Rained Twice this evening ^{a very little}but

21st Beautiful growing morning tolerable clear & warm Clabe Hilling new ground Charles Coltered fresh ground yesterday Claborne did not Come to Hill Saturday to day Charles did not quite finish plowing fresh ground above Granary Sam replanting corn Keatts finished coltering new ground & laying off I went to Coltering in corn Doron plowed his watermelon Patch & my Potatos & Plowing in Corn all day throwing dirt from Corn

22 Sunday Beautiful day and very warm Very warm Growing weather to day -