Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

24th Put out Our Second rate Tobacco Toping over & worming next to Whiteheads In evening Came up a tremendous hard rain wind & Gust washed away all fencing Blew down some for me took us till night to fix up again

25 Jerry & Henry Came home from Lynchg bringing 6 Bags Guano 1000 for aspen Grove sent the waggon on right off

26. Sunday Jerry went to association at upper Banister Carried the Letter from Strait Stone Church & $5 in money Doct Thompson came over to day Sunday to Mr Bybees children as he told me himself

27th Halled up Fodder & 1 stack Oats & then Henry went to mill & got flour from yates & gone down to aspen Grove to Load & start to Lynchg again with 2 Teams & all the Tobacco from there I Carr^d Jerry to Chalk Level to live this morning for 12 months for $50Picked up & halled 1 Load apples, now Toping & worming Tobacco —

28 Started to Lynchg & carried Sallie on to School at Hollins Institute, worming & succoring Tobacco Rained very hard again Finished Carrying the Tobacco to Lynchg from Aspen Grove made only 5442 lb & sold for $290 & some Cents Expense in halling $16 & some cents overseer part $39.11. Settled with him for Tobacco & oats made 1859 & Oats made 1860 I Bot for moses, & he asked off & I took them myself I have paid for them &

1860 Sept^8th9th went to meeting myself — — 10th worming ^{Mrs Hunt gone to CHouse} & Succoring Tobacco I am stilling again making 1½ days cleared off cool JCT been Twice to old place

11th Stilled again to day, Pulling fodder next to Whiteheads, stacked up 4 & a p^s stack last night fine Blade fodder —

12th Pulling again to day & stilling Sent to Mr J.P. Lewis for Bacon yesterday

13th Finished daubbing in night last night worming & succoring Tobacco to day. Tying up Fodder etc cool weather —

14th cool this morning worming & succoring this morning Tying up Fodder etc etc I am going to Plantation to day — to see Doss this went to see Doss saw Mr Waller he told me Doss was going to live with him, went to yates Cris Lanes & Plantation made a proposition to Cothran to Live there again & give him till Tuesday morning to decide -- We have 11 or 12 stacks Blade ^{here & 19 at Plantation}

15th Stayed at home all day riving boards prizing Tobacco Stacking fodder etc etc clear pretty weather —

16th Mr Doss Came here this morning & told me he intended to stand to his contract, & never said or thought of being off or disappointing me

17th Lucy & Mr Faris s Jack I dont go to Court to day Raining & we are working in our Tobacco prizing & taking down etc Raining moderately al day —

18th Fanning out our wheat, made about Bus. here sewed 9, Rained all day —

1860 Sept 19 Mrs Hunt come from CH this evening gone about 9 days – Killed Lamb Turkey etc prizing Tobacco Halled some from barn on road - wormed & succor’d in evening -

20, Jacob & his wife & Company came here yesterday^{to day married 19th Sept 1860}stayed all night here yet he is - here yet Jacob _{to Mary James Monroe} married

21 him & his wife here balance all gone

22nd Cutting Tobacco over next to Cap^t Whiteheads Stacked 2 stacks Blade fodder prizing Tobacco Clems & Arch child a Girl Born to day - Sent for Mrs Stanly & p^d her fine weather now

23rd went to meeting at Strait Stone

24. Pulling fodder & finished cutting Tops stilling Halled Tobacco to prize etc warm weather —

25. Stilling cutting Tops prizing Tobacco etc

26. Stilling went to plantation riving boards for Barn wormed & succored Tobacco & tied up Tops & finished this evening

27th Halling up Tobacco & Housing & worming & succoring over putting in Barn on Road cloudy & like for rain Did rain 2 showers, Riving Boards for for Barn, my cattle sick at aspen Grove lost my red Bull & a cow with young calf sick one milch cow sick here,

28. Firing House Tobacco working on Barn, worming & succoring Tobacco one of our Milch cows Died & one at aspen Grove overseer milked Died also

23rd Sewing wheat Pulling corn putting up apples & Irish Potatoes etc, Halling up 4 Loads out of upper part of Lot & shucked last night - warm weather ————

24 Bob went down to Mrs Hunt bro^t her Loom & Bureau & got some hops Sewing wheat next to Cap^t whiteheads choping around stumps where we sewed wheat in fresh ground & cutting down & Pilling stacks - I went to Barksdale Hubbards & Dawsons & aspen Grove collected for Grasty - - etc - swapted Horses with John shields to day gave him Charly & Lucy for his Gray Horse John & $5 to Book [Boot]

25. went to W^m H Wallers for Grasty - Finished sewing wheat next to Whiteheads fixed Gate pulling Corn & Halling wood.

26. went to James McHaney|Ja^s W McHanys]] for Grasty. pulling & Halling corn & stacks out of Lot. began to Plow & shuck corn in evening - I went to old Place for Jennings

27th Court Martial held here to day, my wife & Mrs Hunt gone to Fannies & Kates Sewing wheat in Lot Shucked out corn putting stacks in stable loft - & housing corn,- fine weather —

28th my wife came home I went to Strait Stone Pray meeting & to Plantation

29th Mr Cothran Sent the waggon up & I am this morning cleaning out stables, getting pieces for chimney Bob is cutting wood sent Jerry down after Bet & a p^s cloth to Miss Neals to weave, sewing & Harrowing in wheat in upper part of Lot - to day fixing to start to Lynchg in evening. Raining some -

30. 31 1 Novr 2nd D^o working on chimneys Daubing Houses Cutting etc raining all the time this week.

1861 Janry 16th Halled 2 Loads of Tobacco out of new Barn to new Barn to strip & then went to getting Boards Henry went to mill Carr^d. 1 Turn ^Corn for overseer Bro^t. back slab plank or puncheons for overseers kitchen & 1 Turn meal for us 1 there now I hunted sow^{but did not find her}

17th Fine morning Mrs ^Hunt & Bob going to CH - getting slabs & wood to day I am going to plan^t to day - to see how they are coming on — Cut down corners of Cider House & sawed out door. My White Sow come up this evening with 5 Pigs very likely & good Looking –

18th Raining this morning began to Hew p^ss for Carriage House & Granary & Rain stoped us & we went to striping Tobacco

19th Cutting Malling & Halling wood to day

20th. Went to Sam worshams to see about hog & its mine, come by old place to see them there, etc staid at home balance of day

21. went to Court. done nothing hardly – Hewing p^ss for Carriage house & Granary Sent Henry for Hog & got him home

22nd Hewing Plates for Granary & logs –

23rd Hewing logs for Granary cleaning up new ground on Road, Ditching next to Whiteheads 4 feet & 2 feet Deep @ 6¢ both prongs. cold cloudy day & like for snow in the evening it did snow smartly —

24th Horrid morning - Raining & freezing this morning. snow not Deep, striping Tobacco clem spining - sale day at Mr Hunts place my old Sow had 4 pigs lost 2 of them ¬– Milleys Calf about 6 weeks old – cloudy all day ^snow did not melt much no Sale but few poeple next Striping Tobacco

25 Henry haled wood Harry malled rails & helped him Load, balance striping Tobacco clem spining I went to Mrs Fitzgeralds to see her & Jacob