Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1847 25th Augt. Jacob ^{James Dearing}started to school & this week went 2 days

Sept 3rd Friday went 1 hr week 4 days “ 10 went 4 days 1 hr week 4 “ 17 went 5 days 1 hr week 5 “ 21 went 1 hr day & stayed 12 oclock “ 24 ^{Mr Waddel went to [Corcons?]}went 3½ days this week Oct 1st went 4½ days this week 8 went 2 days this week 15 went 5 days this week 22 went 5 days this week 25 went Monday of this week Nov. 22 went this week 3 days “ 24 went Monday 1 day

1848 Jany 31st Jacob starts to school Feby 4 went 4 days this week Jacob has missed 3 days^{this day} or 4 do to Jerry starts to make up his lost time Jacob miss 1 day more Jery about made up Jacob lost time up to this day Jerry gone to day

[three sentences crossed out diagonally:] augt 30th^mondayTalton at building chimny 1 day &^{began 9 Oclock say little ps} " Sept worked 2 1/2 days & went Home 25 " worked 2 1/2 days on ^{[?] it}& went home Entered on bond — = 1848 May 22nd Jerry 2 days to school 2 23 Jerry 1 day to D^o 1

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

17th Sept⁴⁷ Began to Cutt Tobacco on Johns Branch wednesday evening 15th now Cutting on Spring Branch put up seven stacks fodder & some in house Went to Lynchg Last week & carried 27 ^B 24 lbs wheat & 1½ Bus Corn very wet time, sold wheat for 90¢ corn for 55¢

27 Since the Seventeenth we have finished our Blade fodder, 12 stacks 9 Double 3 Single & finished this morning finished cutting Tops Cured 600 Hundred Stacks Tobacco in prize Barn & Expect to begin to Lot Tobacco this evening, Several of our family have been sick, Jerry sick at this time Doct Thompson has been one visit & 2 Call visits to see him, Now he is mending - Thanks be God Weather warm & no frost yet, -Great deal of Tobacco to cut last week Talton worked on chimney 2½ or nearly

29 Weather a little Cool & yesterday

28 Cut Lot Tobacco 400 stacks - & this day Halling Tobacco in middle Barn & firing new ground & succoring Mr or Elder Joel Hubbards trial at Rices Meeting House this day

Oct 1st Weather warm Cured nearly 3 Houses ^{800 sticks in middle barn} Tobacco & have Cut all but Lot & new ground clean -

Oct 2nd Halling up & stacking Top fodder gathering Beans Peas & snap seed, etc etc, carried the 1st of this week 2 Bbls Corn to mill for meal my wife gone to Mrs Hunts Jerry better

Oct. 2nd weather good & began to stack our tops this 3rd likely for Rain

1847 Oct 4 Stacking our tops Talton here finishing chimney — weather fine^businessfor

5. Housing lot Tobacco this day. —

6th Raining this day —

7 Thundered & Rained nearly all day & in the evening the most sever Thunder & lightening I most ever saw –

8th Turned cooler & the sun shining this morning ground very wet - etc etc

9 Went down with Talton to see Land cutting Our Buck wheat & housed Tobacco Second cutting - weather still moderate Our new ground Tobacco still standing nearly ½ of it.

11 began to Pull fresh ground corn, this morning cloudy & like for Rain, warm, Halled up 5 loads Corn yesterday, made 11 in fresh ground

15 Frost this morning cut all our Tobacco yesterday Hanging & Housing this day

16 sewed second years Tobacco Land in wheat - 3 bushels. Choping round the stumps & cutting off Bushes Housed 20 Barrels Corn

18 Plowing for wheat Housing Load corn fresh ground. Made 25 Bbls Digging sweet Potatoes this morning

19 weather fine about this time,-

23. 59 Bushels cleaned out, sold, in 2 Hh^ds & used together to this day

26th myself & wife & Jacob Jerry & Henry started for Orange went on by the way of Lynchg & Charlottesville had a good trip & got to my Fathers in Orange on Saturday before night. Jacob & myself went to Capt Boxleys on the 9th Nov 1847. We started back for home by the way of Louisa CH