Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

Cartersville etc & arrived home Saturday night after dark^{the 13th Nov}& found all well & doing ^{staying at Mr Overbys all night}well being from home about 3 weeks. Sewed 19 or 20 Bushels wheat in Johns’s field ^{& all} while we were gone^{sewed 6 Bus.}, Our friend Mr John G Lewis attended to our business while we were absent all the little growth cut in our new ground

15th began to get up Our Corn —

16. puling up Irish Potatoes & Greens this^day weather very good Henry & Jacob gone to mill —————

22, Shucking & Housing corn most of last^week this morning Killed Bull,

24th Rained all night last night & most of the day yesterday. Striping Tobacco & shoe making - Killed a Beef Harry monday

22nd Let Mr. Myers have 81 lbs weighed about 375 lbs have not finished our corn yet —

Dec 1st Rained to day & nearly Halled up all Our Corn - Shoemaking & Spining etc etc —————

2nd Rained all night & this morning Striping Tobacco & shoemaking

Dec 6 Last Friday 3rd Fed went to shoemaking at Mrs Hunt shucking & Housing our corn & finished this day & began to put up Our Turnips

8. Killed 6 Hogs this day & began to cut big growth in new ground & Grubbing & Halling wood

11 Striping Tobacco, been cutting big growth in new ground 2 days [unclear]. weather warm, & cloudy let Mr. Crews have ½ Bus. salt for 100 lbs fodder to salt his Pork

13th Striped Tobacco, cloudy & Rainy

14 Striping D^o & Cloudy & Rainy

1850 March 13th Plowing & mending up Log Heaps Windy & moderate - weather

14th Raining this morning took down some good Tobacco & Pack it in Hh^d 10 Layers Sent Jordan to mill Halled up 1 stack Blade fodder - opned all our good Tobacco. & Finished prizing all our Lugs Plowing for corn, Fed etc Faned out Oats this morning & then he went to cut ^{Logs in new ground etc}House

15. Finished Cutting House Logs & began to sew oats by Janes House

16. Prizing Tobacco & took down good Tobacco in Prize Barn. Turned out Lugs & short & put good Hh^d Tobacco under Prize Mr Crews nearly ½ this day —

17. Rained nearly all day I went to Mrs ^Hunts

18. cloudy & moderate weather prizing^{Mr Crews} good Tobacco ½ day Henry gone to shop with waggon Balance of them forking up manure in cow Pen

19. Plowing for corn Halling Barn Logs at new ground & cleaning up for coltering cleared off & fine weather manured Plant Beds Halled leaves to Stables & began to sew Oats again at 12 Oclock, windy day.

20 Sewing Oats Halling out manure on Sweet Potatoe Patch cleaning up new ground

21. Raking & Burning leaves in new ground Sewing Oats, Hitched Logan yesterday to Plow & he Plows elegantly cloudy all ^weekthis

22 Halled up Stack Oats this morning Logan [rioting?], Balance Sewing Oats Began to colter in new ground. Hewing gate Post etc etc etc.

1851 June 13th To Day went to Mrs McCullocks not done weeding there yet a fine Rain this day about 12 Oclock Capt Fitzgerald & myself looking at Mr. Sam^l Fitzgerald’s Land where Crews lives Replanting Tobacco here this evening – Fresh ground On mountain ——

14th Replanting Tobacco this morning fine ^weathergrowing then Plowing in corn at stony pint & weeding Tobacco Plowing up & planting Turnip Patch in Tobacco & Plowing Pea Patch & Turnip Patch Cutting Rye at Mrs McCullocks this day & finished Laying by first planting Irish Po[ta]toes Plowing in corn not quite done weeding corn at Mrs McC — no Rain There friday, quite ^ ^cool this ^{Plowed Celam to day}evening

15th quite Cool & Clear Kate gone to Harmony

16th A little shower this evening went to Court weeding down lotts of Tobacco - Plowing at stony pint - etc Halled up Stack 17th of Fodder this morning — Red, Suck & Rose had calves lately 1 Heifer^only

Memorandum of an agreement made with Geo. Cothran this 17th June 1851 to wit I sell Mrs Sarah W Colemans Old Barauch to Said Cothran for forty Dollars, the said Geo. has already agreed to repair a waggon for said S W Coleman for $14. makes a Large waggon Body, which body is for Mrs E McCullock for the sum of $10 Plank a body for said Graves for 1.50, making 25.50 worth of work & get more work If possible for said Cothran on a/c said Trade, & whatever Balance may be Due of the $40 the Said Geo. Cothran is to pay said sarah w Coleman at Christmas in money — — very cool at this time

18 - went to Mrs McCullocks finished weeding corn set up Hh^d for Mrs R McC cut little Lot wheat prizing Tobacco & working out Truck Patches etc very cool yet

1853 Jany 5 Spotted Sow had 7 pigs^{only 4} 2 or 3 days ago the one come from Mr. Fitzgeralds has pigs but we cant find her have been hunting for her 2 or 3 days – ^{she came up with 8 Pigs –}to day we are halling wood grubbing etc. yesterday we striped Tobacco,- sow came up with 8 Pigs.

8th we have been Halling wood Cutting etc

12th This week we have been cutting & Halling wood^etc yesterday we began to Plow & Hall Leaves in Johns field Balance is cutting wood for Plant Bed at mountain, This morning its Raining hard & began sometime in night & we are all striping Tobacco in overseers House. finishing whats there about 12 Oclock We have finished Grubbing out new ground —

15th Striping Tobacco in Middle Barn yesterday & to day, not quite done the Barn back of Garden Snowed Thursday night about 4 or 5 Inches deep for the first this winter, Jacob & Cate to see Mr Fitzgerald who is Sick as well as myself I have sick for 2 weeks to day taken several doses Pills & 2 doses strong medicine one of Calomel last night. Halling out Straw for cattle this evening, Mr Crews helping to assort Tobacco @ 12^Ocl. Who I have engaged to help when he can @ 2/3 pr day Sent Jordan to store for Papers letters & a bottle of Castor Oil for me —

22nd The past week I have been sick all the week, they have Burnt one Plant at mountain Field cut in new ground Burnt Brush halled wood etc etc they striped Tobacco one or Two days in middle Barn. to day cutting Jacob ^{& Lowry} gone Abram Neals to hall wood, cloudy & like for snow or Rain, 23rd Tolerable good day

24th cloudy & like for falling weather & we are striping Tobacco in middle Barn till 12 oclock then stoped cleared off They went to cutting in new ground —

25 Put straw in cow Racks yesterday, we are all hands cutting to day, my wife Jerry & little Henry gone to see Mr Fitzgerald to day etc

1853 Feby 24th Sent Henry to Farris s mill with 16 Bushels Corn for meal, got back at night I went to Mrs McCullocks & to Farris s mill myself & had blind Tushes Knocked out his Hest[ers] & celams mouth - went by mount airy & got 11 lbs Bro sugar @ 11¢ 4 lbs D^o @ 6¢, Knife ⅙ 1 Bottle or vial Mr Mustang, ⅙ 1 tooth Brush 1 /- in all $2.21

25th Began on the meal from Farris s mill this morning 26th some cutting Halling wood. Malling 26 Some cutting for wood malling & Plowing Put up part of our new ground fences Sewed all our plant Beds over except the last we Burnt., cloudy & like for Rain.

27th Rained a little – cleared of in evening

28 Saml Fitzgerald came to Survey Land where Mr Crews Lives with Mr Jno J Corbin only come out 277 acres in all, 138½ for me & same for E. Fitzgerald. Rained a little, Our folks Striping Tobacco & prizing Hh^d Lugs. –

March 1st mr Corbin divided Land & we choped the Line,- Still striping Tobacco & prizing Lugs. Halled Tobacco from Mountain Barn to Overseers House to ^be striped very windy & cool this evening –

March 2nd My Son Jerry starts to school to Mr Boswell, we are cleaning out Granary this morning putting chaff in pen halling corn to Little corn House etc etc, Halling wood malling. Swingling flax. & cleaning out my stable - Tolerable good weather prizing Hh^d Lugs, put Jacobs Lugs in Hh^d 9⁵⁷ lbs lent for a flour Bbl I givepay him for 100 lbs what I get in Lynchg—

5 we have striped Tobacco one or Two days this week plowed some malled cut stacks to sew oats & to day & yesterday we cut down Pines for a Barn, prize Barn, quite cool