Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1847 August 6th Raining this morning a little finishing working branch then worming & succoring Tobacco Henry gone to to Glenns Mill with 5 Bus. wheat for flour 2 Bus for Armstead & W^m Myers & 2½ Bus. corn for me — etc etc Lila Spining cloudy warm weather

7 Raining this morning & last night all night spining shoemaking & Picking wool etc

8 a good warm day —

9. Foggy in morning & then fair

10. Cloudy this morning. Toping & worming Tobacco this morning, I am scouring etc etc Fine growing weather - High Fresh in creeks about here very hard Rain A week or Two ago W^m B. Averett of Lynchg & Green Robed the bank. Averett Ran off Green they have in Jail

11th Rained nearly all night ground very wet & Raining this morning cleaning out Stables & Spining etc etc etc

12 Grubed & cleaned up mountain field this day, went to see Ezekiel East sent Island & bot it.

13th Grubing & Cutting in new ground

14 Henry & Fed went to Mr McCullocks to Raise a barn, balance succoring Tobacco 15 Sunday prime weather

16th Toping & Succoring Tobacco

17 Succoring new ground & second yrs Halled polls on Branch

18th Succoring & worming Tobacco scraping out Cotton Patch etc

22 Rained last night, began to Thrash wheat Colo Dickinsons^machineyesterday

23 Rained again & we cant go on ^{out wheat}getting

1847 Dec. 16th Striping Tobacco - this morning. sent Colo Dickinson for toll wheat for machining 5 Bushels white wheat. Made 99½ Bushels began to snow in the evening & continued till sometime in the might. Snow 8 or 9 Inches Deep where it has not melted

17th striping Tobacco in middle barn expect to finished by 11 oclock - to day weather not very cold, still cloudy

21. began to snow again last night about 11 oclock & snowing yet this morning. about 3 or 4 Inches Deep this morning. no Tobacco down doing but little

22nd Snow from 6 to 8 Inch Deep Swingling flax shoemaking & spining.

24 Shoemaking & spining shelling corn Started Henry & Jacob after Catharine Spiller at Mrs Clarks, come home in night

25. Christmas day cold & cloudy

26. cold etc fun day —

27. Still cold & cloudy went to Mr Lewis’s & Mrs Smith & Mrs Hunts

28. Snowed a little last night but this morning clear & Cold — ReC from Mr. Strickland, Misses Albrights Shernerd etc agent $136 for Hire of Joe & John 1847 tho this Bond was only for $126 they pd. us more because they pd others more, & I this day pd the $136 to Mrs Coleman at Mrs Hunts ——etc——yesterday—

30 Killed Hogs this morning Sent Fed to shop with Cart alse & Ann shrubbing for corn -

31st Cloudy & Rainy taking down ^{Barn of Tobacco}new ground

1851 July 18th Hilling up new ground Tobacco Plowing Lots Tobacco - Dry & Hot

19th Plowing & Hilling up Lots of Tobacco, still Dry & nights Hot went to Mrs McC 18th & to see Hester. Sent Fed to mill 2 Turns of corn for me 1 for overseer & also 3 Bushels wheat for overseer —

20 21 & 22nd Clear & dry & nights a little cool

21st 22nd Plowing & Hilling up fresh ground on mountain Sent new waggon to shop again & Mrs Colmans Iron Going to day to Mrs McC. to grastys & Rice & in the route see about machine at Yates —

23rd Thrashing wheat & finished this day - Joel Hubbard machine — fair & Dry — fixing to Thrash at Mrs McCullocks, Keatts machine

24th going to carry the machine to Crew Miller this morning Fed sick yesterday & done ^{the wheat}nothing in choping in corn - finished Hilling up Tobacco [on?]

28th Halling Rock to build chimny to Henrys House still cloudy & like for Rain, wind Blew hard yesterday Sunday — Malissas child a Girl was Born Thursday morning before day Break say Juste after midnight, on the 24th July 1851.

29th went to Colo Smiths Plantation & to Mrs McCullock a little shower rain after I got home & in the night it rained again Smartly, my ^{the tooth ach}wife got

30 Cloudy & like for more rain, We are Replanting our 2 Lots & fresh ground to day - plants from Capt Fitzgerald quarter

31st Replanting in second yrs ground nearly done will get done soon this morning A Fine Rain last night, & still cloudy J D owen went to Colo Dickinsons to get an overseer place this day

augt 2nd now gone to Mr Watson Wamacks on same business

— 11 now gone to W^m Tuckers I don’t Know what for

Sept 3rd Owen gone to Logans D^o D^o

1852 Sept 1st Engaged Bud Faris to Rive & draw shingles & find himself at Two Dollars a Thousand to be paid in wheat & Vinegar or something else.

2nd Went to Colo Dickensons Chalk Level for Mrs McCullock & to CH for Capt Fitzgerald & myself etc fine Day ———

3rd worming & succoring Tobacco & cut 23 stacks out of new ground that was firing

4th worming Lot Tobacco & finished & went in fresh ground Jordan Lowry & claiborne, Fed alse Sandy & Kitty sawing from 10 OC till night Henry went to Raise Barn at Doct Walkups Lila & Jordan Plowing at mountain field Something bit Pompeys fore Leg Swelled very much Stoped him @ 1 OC put Pain Killer on it & at Bathed it in mullin ^{cloudy all night Rained & also day}& [P?] top etc

5th fair & clear quite cool this morning Pompeys Leg Better ^7th got Better & Kate got ^weddingto F Holys

9th Rain Rain, Rain, nearly every day & we have a good deal of fodder on the ground & we have cut about four Hundred stacks in new ground ^{& to day Rained nearly all day}spining making Baskets etc etc

10th Spining Basket Making & mending Cates shoes Rained all night last night & this morning Bud Faris geting shoes & J. Tucker has got a few

11th cloudy & like for Rain this morning we are Beeting apples for vinegar,- Bet, one of our Milch cows Died Some time ago, Passing Blood seeming to be her complaint, last evening another cow Mary Died in same way Passing Blood. also one of our sheep Died in clover lot,- Very wet weather, & like to be so this morning cows are at mountain field where Mary Died

12th Strait Stone meeting Did not Rain this day & turned rather cooler & wind from N.W at night quite cool Fannie W & M F. here

1854 Jany 28th The past week nearly the whole of week been at Mrs McCullocks with Surveyor Graves & Commissioner Dividing Land & the 7th of next is the sale & Division of the negroes of Jeremiah McCullock Dec^d we have a cold & part of the week wet, Our folks have been Cutting & striping Tobacco, Henry began to Hew down Barn but Did not finish, He is gone to mill this day to Millers 1 Bbl wheat for meal 3 Bushels of D^o for chop & 1 Bbl Corn for mean – Turned very cold last night, & is so to day

30th Halling wood waggon & Cart alse & Kitty stacking wood. Fed & Sandy Cutting, Jacob getting shingles – clear pretty weather – –

Feby 3rd Burnt^{& sewed} Plant On mountain & Covered it, Snowed a little

4th Halling wood waggon & Cart,- Turned quite Cold, went to Mrs Hunts to day

= 8 Rained nearly all day striping Tobacco nearly done prize Barn, finished yesterday Hewing down Barn nearly Burnt & sewed yesterday & the day before plant Bed in the Stash —

14 Since the 8th had sale & Division of Land & negroes at Mrs McCullock Paid E D Johns for his Int. in Jer. Eliza [?] & Elizabeth McCullock Jr Est. as refereed by Jno F. Patrick for me & Colo V. Dickinson for Mr Johns, Mr James M Fitzgerald attended to it for me Plowing for Corn malling in new ground This day striping Tobacco in prize Barn & trying to finish Raining to day 8 Lambs to this day - etc etc