Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1848 Sept 30 Cutting Tobacco in big & little new ground & making Tobacco sticks Finished curing 2 Houses Tobacco & about prize Barn at this ^timefair & warm Sent Henry to Mr McCullocks & Exchanged Ten 10 Bus. wheat, as his is whiter than mine, mine is a little mixed, — with red wheat some how cut 625 sticks Tobacco in Lot - Second cutting in big & little new ground [lost in margin] sticks in second yrs ground is sticks, making in all

Oct. 1st Raining this morning & untill nearly 12 oclock, warm weather —

Oct 2 Cut & Hung up to this day 3000 & over. finished cutting in big new ground worming second yrs ground & succoring Halling wood & shoemaking —

3 Halling up old Top stack & stacking straw etc etc Fed shoemaking Sent 125 lbs old Iron to Miles Tuckers & sent Henry to Jno Tucker for 1000 shingles for X saw, worming & succoring Tobacco began to Pull Mountain field corn,

4th Halling Tobacco out of new ground to mountain field Barn & Halling corn home from mountain field

5 Housing Lot Tobacco shucking & Housing corn put in corn house about 13 Bbls

1849 June 12th Went to S. S. M H. to try Tho^s East for stealing Stephen Redgrages oats. got clear from evidence, - Plowed Peas & corn Plowed ^drillcorn second time by middle barn, & below Plum bushes Weeding drill corn next to orchard - Cloudy damp weather -

13. Plowed out Garden Sweet Potatoes cotton Irish Potatoes, begun to lay ^{for tobacco}of[f] Lot. weeding & Plowed fresh ground next to orchard

14. Beding Lot this & thining drill^{Just Plowed} corn

15. Finished Planting Tobacco & Replanted all new ground & little second yrs ground weather warm & moist - Working cotton & branch corn to day Plowing & weeding. Finished weeding cotton this 12 oclock & gone on branch Hot weather about this time —

16 Rained a little last evening. Weeding & resetting corn on Branch where missing. Planting watermellons simbling^Pumpkins Potatoes setting out some Beet, Turnip, screan the seed of which Mr Tucker said came from ^DenmarkDenmark

17 Fine clear weather, Finished yesterday weeding out Branch. Corn, not quite done weeding corn yet. began to Plow Hill next to orchard, second time also next to ¹⁸woods by middle Barn, replanting corn on 19. Branch Lower part, - done weeding & Plowing our corn second time one this side branch & began second time on the other side branch runing 4 Plows, weeding or Hilling up Sweet Potatoes etc - clear weather nights cool, great talk of mad Dogs this Spring. cholera about very much this Spring Mr C. A Hunt Died of it at Independence Mo. on his way to California, - its now in Richmond V^a Extra session Legislature moved to^{to finish}Fauquier Cty

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

1852 Oct 11th Firing our Tobacco very little as its all nearly been cured ——

15th Gathered about 5 Barrels corn Snap Beans Sawing Shingle Blocks - went to Court Housing Tobacco, not much frost & finished monday while I was at Court.

17th Carried 2 Stacks to Yates saw mill^week last for Hh^d staves heading —

20th Carr^d to 2 to Millers 1 to be sawed squared Edged & 1 thro for sheathing Fine weather fannie White here

21 Began to Plow for wheat. Henry gone to Mill 2 Bus. new corn the first we have had On Sunday 17th Oct 1852 Doct ^white Came here to see clemintines Hand & cut it on the back & in Palm of the hand, also —I went to Court monday morning

22 Doct. White came again to see clementines Hand & cut off one of her Fingers, — — Harrowing in Rye cleaning out & draining^flat Plowing for wheat, Fanning out Wheat to sew.

26. we have been Sewing wheat ever since 22nd Cutting up Tobacco stubble. Lila in house 1 day Dr White here to day making 3 times to see clems^hand Mrs smiths Sale, bot 1 Cow cut Reel Carving ^{& fork}Knife 1 Hh^d 2 Vinegar Bbls 1 Box old Irons - etc -

28 29 & 30th we have finished sewing wheat out at Fresh ground. Sewed in Lot & out at fresh ground ^Bus 16½ Cut & stacking corn in fresh ground next to orchard & began to Plow there when it commenced Raining went to Mill a day or Two ago 5 Bus new corn

31st Oct Striping Tobacco at Overseers house none of our Hogs up this morning

Novr 1st Sawing shingles Blocks John Neal here ^sawing- Halling up corn Plowing for wheat cloudy & warm like for Rain,- Jno Tucker & A Faris getting shingles

1852 Novr 2nd Presidential Election this day Very Blustering in the evening & a Thunder cloud came up & Rained a little — we are Housing some corn in morning halling wood Sewed about 2 Bus. wheat next to orchard & bushed it. Plowing for cutt down stalks below the House – Hogs failed^{up this morning} to come began to get up balance of succors for negroes

4th Halled one Log to Yates for him, better one than he sawed for us – he owes a little to boot yesterday we gathered succors began to shoe make & sewing wheat next to orchard — this morning we finished sewing wheat next to orchard Fine weather this morning we are digging Our Sweet Potatoes - Dug about ½ say 50 or 60 Bus.

5th this morning like for Rain & we are ^{our Potatoes}not digging making another Hog Pen, cutting down Corn by Middle Barn to sew wheat - all our Hogs^up

6th Fanning Out wheat spining Federick gone to Mill 4 Bus. Corn 2½ wheat for our flour ^{for Jno Tucker}& 2½ D^o Raining fine weather for wheats that is sewed We have sewed 22 or 23 Bus, & 1½ Bus Rice,

7th Sunday cloudy & moderate weather

8th went to saw mill with another Log to yates choped around stumps etc -

9th Dug Balance of our Potatoes etc

10 Fixing for Lynchg to start tomorrow^morning

22nd, went to Lynchg & to Court. Finished Sewing wheat; pulling away Greens & nearly done shoemaking - began to Grub & Cut in new ground Given Lila Kitty & Lowry a Blanket a p^s also Clem, Sandy & Malissa a Blanket a p^s

23rd cleared off very pretty morning last night cold & Rainy we are grubing cutting & Halling^{to day} wood I am going to Mrs Hunts to see Mrs Coleman