Pages That Mention Crew Miller
Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 8
July 18, 1851 - July 31, 1851
1851 July 18th Hilling up new ground Tobacco Plowing Lots Tobacco - Dry & Hot
19th Plowing & Hilling up Lots of Tobacco, still Dry & nights Hot went to Mrs McC 18th & to see Hester. Sent Fed to mill 2 Turns of corn for me 1 for overseer & also 3 Bushels wheat for overseer —
20 21 & 22nd Clear & dry & nights a little cool
21st 22nd Plowing & Hilling up fresh ground on mountain Sent new waggon to shop again & Mrs Colmans Iron Going to day to Mrs McC. to grastys & Rice & in the route see about machine at Yates —
23rd Thrashing wheat & finished this day - Joel Hubbard machine — fair & Dry — fixing to Thrash at Mrs McCullocks, Keatts machine
24th going to carry the machine to Crew Miller this morning Fed sick yesterday & done the wheatnothing in choping in corn - finished Hilling up Tobacco [on?]
28th Halling Rock to build chimny to Henrys House still cloudy & like for Rain, wind Blew hard yesterday Sunday — Malissas child a Girl was Born Thursday morning before day Break say Juste after midnight, on the 24th July 1851.
29th went to Colo Smiths Plantation & to Mrs McCullock a little shower rain after I got home & in the night it rained again Smartly, my the tooth achwife got
30 Cloudy & like for more rain, We are Replanting our 2 Lots & fresh ground to day - plants from Capt Fitzgerald quarter
31st Replanting in second yrs ground nearly done will get done soon this morning A Fine Rain last night, & still cloudy J D owen went to Colo Dickinsons to get an overseer place this day
augt 2nd now gone to Mr Watson Wamacks on same business
— 11 now gone to Wm Tuckers I don’t Know what for