Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1851 Aprl 10th Have been coltering & Hilling Halling Rails at stony point & making up fence Plowing cotton Patch etc Rained Tuesday - (Hester, & Celam,) yesterday etc,

11th Fencing & finished at stony point & Plowing for corn there - cloudy ^{sent Fed to mill 1 Bbl}

12 ^{walked to meeting at Strait Stone on Saturday}Laying off to Plant Corn & Hilling in ^ground new

13th Raining & Hailing a little very cool

14th carried sheep to stony point ground very wet moving Gate making^Lane etc Fencing about House Made Bridge & working on the Hill ^Lains towards Piled Our manure first Last week —

15. Sewed flax Planted ^Sweet Potatoes got 2½ Bus Plowed up Hard spots on Hill & in the evening began to Plant Corn at stony point

16th Planting corn at stony point again - & ground so wet we cant finish there, planting in fresh field,- quite cool weather moderated

17th Hilling in new ground 3 Plows fixing corn ground

18th Planting corn in cover field & at stony point Federick Halling 2 Loads of manure to stony weather still Looks unsettled little cloudy Nearly done planting corn at Mrs McCullocks

19th Planting corn at Stony point & at mountain field & finished at both places Planting this evening Lost at home by Granary, Planting Snaps Pumpkins simblings etc left corner above Gate for Peas; Planting Goober Peas — cleared off not much Rain weather moderate We will get nearly done ^{Planting corn & h}this evening except some wet spots in fresh ground etc etc etc Planted nearly 4 Bushels Corn

21st Very cool wind from N. E. for 2 days Just before^night yesterday wind shifted ^{to S W} & no frost to hurt last night but cant tell how it will be to night,- done nearly planting corn Sweet Potatoes etc etc at Mrs McCullocks, - grown Heifers 3 steers

22nd Turned out this morning 4 young Heifers 2 [m?] the Bull, Bet suckled & Rose 14 in all

1858 June 16th Finished throwing Dirt from Corn Peas etc etc. Plowing & weeding Corn working Cotton & Potatoes Plowing overseers Truck Patches this morning -- my wife gone to Mr Hunts & Carr^d Molassses home she Borrowed of them

17th Weeding corn on hill by Middle old Barn & Plowing left side, Henry sick, began to weed on left side this evening, wheat looks very sorry Oats looks tolerable well at this time

18. Weeding Corn & Plowing left side of Path in field Henry Sick yet fine clear hot day —

19th Sheared sheep Plowing & weeding Corn got over Plowing & Plowing on Branch marked Turned out 9 she Lambs making 29 with the Ram we shall keep,-

20. went to Sunday School Mr anderson gone & nobody attended but Mr Jno W Lewis

21st I went to Court Fayette Clement failed to meet me, I collected money from Anderson for Faris^s Tobacco & Small Rec^d for myself We had a fine Rain Sunday evening & this morning we are replanting Tobacco In evening went to weeding corn & finished Corn & Peas & nearly done cotton, & Hilling up Sweet Potatoes, weeding & Plowing Tobacco in Lot by alse House & by guano yard

22nd Plowing & weeding Tobacco in Lot

23rd Began to Lay by corn 2 Plows Sandy Plowing Tobacco at Crews’s Mr Lain Set me up 2 Tobacco Hh^ds Henry sick, my wife Sallie & Jerry gone to Fannies, weeding Tobacco in Lot yet, - - Foggy damp month

24rd weeding Tobacco in Lot. Laying by corn with Plows, Sandy Plowing Tobacco, I expect to begin to Cut wheat & Rye to day - only cut Lot wheat Finished weeding lots Tobacco

1858 July 2nd Cutting Oats at Stoney pint to day = Halled up Load or stack Fodder This morning – Fodder prime

3rd Cutting Oats this day finished at stoney^pint Cutting up at Chumbleys, fine growing weather

4th Went to Sunday School - good

5th Cutting Oats at mountain this morning Fine weather; a little cooler Mr Lain came this morning to set up Hh^ds to prize Tobacco

6th Rose had a Mule Colt Last night which we call Tom,- Finished Weeding ^freshTobacco ground Tobacco at Chumblys, Mr Lain here yet & has Set up 4 Hh^ds Plowing & Laying by Corn next to orchard Fine weather ———

7th July Sent to Mill this morning 3 Turns 6 Bushels corn for ourselves, 3 Bushels corn for overseer & 2½ Bushels wheat for him; Plowing Tobacco at mountain Hilling up Tobacco at Johns’s Branch,- to day Mr Lain finished yesterday & gone paid him for his work Turned quite cool day before yester= =day 5th Inst,- Turned warm – again

8th Hilling up Fresh ground Tobacco at mountain Laying by corn next to orchard, Smart shower of Rain this evening.

9th Hilling up Fresh ground Tobacco at mountain Laying by corn Plowing Rose till 12 Oclock Cloudy & warm this morning - not done choping Cotton Yet – – – Weighed Out for negroes to Eat this day 108½ lb Bacon, to see how long it will last will begin on it to morrow being the 10th day of July 1858 -. Plowed Rose to day her Colt improves very much fine weather expect to Finish Hilling fresh ground Tobacco at mountain this evening