Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845. April 9th Remarkable dry & very cool --- Henry Clay has the Distemper very bad --- Moons Negroes cut his wifes throat & very near Killed her On the 8th April every thing Killed almost Beets & all the fruit Killed

11th. Commencing planting corn in mountain field Weather rather warmer but very dry & Windy no appearance of Rain

12 Still dry & little cool, planting corn ^^{& Snaps} by Malissas House Very Smoky Weather - Planted Sweet Potatoes

14th Planting Corn at Stony Point Looks a little like Rain, weather a little cool, great deal Smoky weather

15. Still Planting corn at Stony Point it looks something like ^rain Weather moderate

16 No rain faired off dry & Hot. Planted Corn & Snaps back of Garden this day Fed Halling Rails to make Tobacco Lot by Henrys House, Marked my Calves & Turned all out this morning Still very Smoky

16th Planted all our corn except where the ground is too hard to break up

17 Hilling & colter New ground

1845 May 8^th Cleared of[f] very cool & Windy - Began to Plow corn at House & Mountain field. Hilling second year ground -

9th Replanting corn at Stony Point, Finished Plowing mountain field first time today. Morning & nights very cool - 9 Finished replanting corn Planted Peas in new ground every Saturday in may

10 Began to Hill again. Planted out Tomatoe Screan, Finished prizing Tobacco run Coulter next to cotton

13 Planted little new ground Tobacco Cloudy & Rainy this day

15 Rainy day we planted nearly all our new, Turned off very cool Plowing corn at Stony Point

16 Very cool Hilling Second years Ground & Plowing corn

17 Plowing at Stony point Finished Hilling Second years ground, Thinning corn here at home

19 began to Weed Corn & Plowing over corn Second time, Mr Moons Negroes condemned to be hanged Worked Out Garden Plowed S. Potatoes & Harrowed Cotton, Returned from Lynchg to Sell Tobacco. Tuesday 20th May 1845