Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

18 Aug 1847 Catharine Spiller started to Pine_ =ville to Miss L Wilson’s School at Pineville Academy. Board at Mr & Mrs Clark @ $7 pr month $10 for Tuition of 5 months - Board & Tuition $9 pr month - fine weather

23rd Too wet to Thrash wet. Succoring & worming & Topping Tobacco on Branches here & at Johns

25 Rained all day yesterday yet cloudy succoring^worming& toping^{ground etc}new Jacob P Graves starts to Mr. Waddel to school @ not quite $1 pr. month for the time he goes.

27 Thrashed out our wheat

30 Cloudy & foggy this morning succoring & topping Tobacco this morning Rained very hard Saturday evening —

31 Talton & Henry put up chimney to House for Jane. began Monday 29 & worked 2½ days & went Home sick

Sep 1st Pulling fodder in fresh ground & cutting Buck Wheat there yesterday alse & Fed went to Mr Hunt to pay for Epp & Allen helping me to thrash our wheat —

2 Pulling Fodder in big field to day Tying up Blade fodder etc etc Ann & Jane in House. Henry at Mr. Lewis^{Raising barn}

3 Worming & succoring Tobacco this morning Henry gone to mill weather good

4 Succoring Tobacco & worming to day.

6 Succoring & worming Tobacco weather^fine

17 Been succoring Tobacco & Finished Pulling Fodder 15th now stacking

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