Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1852 July 2nd The weather is warm & like for Rain we have taken down our fine Tobacco & on Hh^d besides & expect to prize them tomorrow

3rd prizing Tobacco good in small Hh^d & Big - send 4 Bushel corn nearly 3 Bus. wheat from Mrs Hunts & 3 Bushels Rye we thrashed to Cpt Gilberts mill this day - Plowing next to orchard laid by fresh ground towards stony pint yesterday weeding down Tobacco etc Plowing sweet Potatoes after 12 Oclock 4th In the night Mrs smith Died having been sick about 5 or 6 weeks - clear day Plowing & Laying by Corn – weeding Tobacco ^{up Sweet Potaotes}Hilled

5. went to Rice before day about mrs smiths coffin got up Rye & some wheat put out Tobacco Plowing Corn, & began to cut Oats this day

6. Cutting Oats mrs smith Buried - clear day

7th Cutting Oats this day - weeding down new ground Tobacco clear fine day & getting quite dry & very Hot Finished Cutting Oats this day & Halled up Tobacco Out of new Barn, to prize Barn & suning it

8th Trod Out 1 floor wheat, suning balance our Tobacco Lila etc plowing Henry & balance assorting & prizing good & fine Tobacco, clear & fine day so far, very warm

13 Plowing nearly done laying by corn –

14th Fine shower Rain last evening weather Replanted Tobacco this morning

15. Last Evening ^{Major & Mrs Grasty & Mrs Wooding to come here tomorrow}Powerfull Rain & wind & some hail, wind Blew down great deal of our fencing not quite done prizing our good Tobacco etc, This morning cutting Trees out of Road putting up fencing etc. — —

17th Rained all night last night, fine growing ^{about this time} weather Finished yesterday Plowing fresh ground Tobacco & Finished prizing our Tobacco not quite done - halling Our wheat up oats out in^stacks

19th Fine Rains about this time we are Hilling up fresh ground. Tobacco plowing p^s corn below House

1855 July 18th Jacob started to Meadsville to to School, Weather dry & Hot, we laid by our Corn about this time Plowing & Hilling up Our Tobacco Henry has been sick nearly a week & several of Our family – nearly got every thing clean about this time

say 26^th Fine Rain yesterday. I was at Mrs McC. settling withem them went to Court House last week & got my acc^ts settled by Comm Banks & it took nearly 12 Hours Halled up Our Oats this week, turn Out very well 5 stacks at mountain & nearly 5 at stony pint worked out our Branch Tobacco Potatoes Cotton etc etc this week fine weather about this time,

27 Plowing & Hilling up Tobacco at stony pint Killed Lamb etc etc at this time

28th Fine shower Rain this evening Finished Hilling up Tobacco at Stony pint Hilling up fresh ground & lot & Plowing it,– fine weather Mrs wooding etc etc here to day

30 Henry & Jordan Hewing sills for Corn house balance hilling up Lot by stable, Sandy Plowed at Mr Neals p^s up this day cleaned out Ice house hot dry weather –

31– Hilling up our new ground Henry gone to Lynchg for Capt Stephen Clement I find myself he gives me $8– for the hh^ds If it weighs over 1200 lbs grows he is to pay 3/9 a hundred four all over, carried a parcel for one of capt clements negroes to pay 3/9 pr 100 lbs

5 Two or Three Showers of Rain the Past week & a fine Rain to day, choped in Corn got timbers for Corn house etc top our Tobacco yesterday – Henry got back Thursday

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