Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1852 Novr 26 Raining all day striping Tobacco Federick gone to mill 5 Bus. Corn 3 Bush. wheat alse malissa & Kitty spining – weather moderate

Decr 2nd Finished shucking all our branch Corn & old Land Have all the fresh Land where we sewed wheat here at home to get up now fine weather for it

3rd Raining this morning & Turned Cooler making Baskets & shoeing making –

4 Halled up wood & Housed Corn in evening moderate clear day - 5 went to S.S. M House to hear Br. McLaughlin ¬

6 Killed 2 Hogs this morning. Pulling off Corn & Halling up, Fair moderate day

7 Halling up Corn in the evening clouded up & Rained a little so that we shucked no corn

8. clear fine morning, sent Fed to Mill 5 Bus. Corn & 2½ Bus wheat for J. Tucker Trying to finish Halling up corn this morning then for shucking & Housing —

16th Finished Our Corn last monday & this day its raining last night it Hailed quite cool Cut & Halled wood yesterday,- to day we are shoeing making Baskets etc etc

21st Finished Halling stalks next to orchard & sewed the wheat there & next to [illegible] clearing cloudy & Raining this day. we are striping tobacco weather warm; not quite done Grubbing this side of branch where we are clearing —

22nd Grubbing & Cutting, Finishing sewing wheat where stacks is in field, but not finished halling stalks Jacob & Lowry halled wood for Mr Neal ½ day

5th Kill our Hogs 3 or 4 days ago It has been Raining nearly all this^week only clear 1 day last monday very wet time indeed Have not seen the sun for several days

1853 Jany 5. It has been raining most all this X & one or Two Jany came in & night before last it rained & snowed very bad night Henry sick all this week & all have bad colds etc.

1859 Decr 12th Mr Fox came again to Dig well & his Horse, came about 12 Oclock - Mr Chumney went to store & staid till Evening I went to Fannies to see Arch, chumney at work on stables Henry & claiborne with Fox Digging well, weather moderated some, Henry bro^t from Mill 1 turn wheat Meal, for us & chumneys Turn Corn meal = Bot of Mr J Tucker 1565 shingles bro^t by Mr Blanks paid him to day for them, - -

14¹³ Come to water in well this morning & began to wall in about 11 Oclock, & got it walled about 10 feet. chumney fixed rafters to day & Halled 2 Loads Sand in evening & took till night, pretty cool day — Mr Fox has been here one day & a half to night

14th Working on well to day all hands Since morning, got a little over ½ wallked Mr Chumney Halled up Some Oats p^s Stack this morning & then framed bottom sills etc, I went to aspen Grove & little after the Cross Cut Saw, — Still cloudy & like for falling weather. Cothran has burnt 3 plant Bed, one of which next to Mr Lewis one road we have part of it. = they are plowing down there

15. Finished walling in well, to night Halling Rocks all day got to the Top I halled 8 Loads myself before dinner, & 4 or 5 afterwards –

16th working on well Layed down Stills, Hewed Corner Post. Plates etc chumny been nearly all day getting the Pieces, Layed the floor this evening have done nothing to stable this week, but my Horse to Nannie to day sent Phil to Yates Shop shod before, bot 536 Shingles of John Tucker pd him 2.15 cents for them

17th desperate morning doing nothing raining & freezing wind blowing hard etc etc.