Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1850 Decr 12th Building overseer House chimmy Halling Rocks leaves Oats wood & Rocks about this time Henry making ladder this morning weather more moderate than for several days I have been to Mrs McCullocks Twice a week for nearly a month

14th Gilbert has been here this week building chimny to overseers House worked 3½ or 4 days quite cool all this week finished chimny & House,- Halled Rocks one day to Henrys House —

17th Cutting in new ground after Killing 1 little Beef & 4 of Our Hogs & salting them up all about 380 lbs

18th My Overseer John Owen Jr moves this day - cutting in new ground Fine weather, Cate & Miss Patricks gone to Mr. ^Fitzgeralds Bot of Mr. Fitzgerald some Pork for Overseer^{this day} Bot & p^d Jacob for his Crop of Tobacco $2 & sold Jacobs to Cate for $3.00

20th Sent Toll wheat to Capt Gilberts mill^{by J D Owen} 6½ Bushels good for My own & Mr Neals 6 Bushe[ls] of my own nearly ½ Bush. for Mr. Neal 1 Bush of screan, 3 Bus. corn for meal 2½ for Owen & 1½ for Henry

21st Rented to John D Hunt Our Oak Hill Plantation, for 5 years on following Conditions He is to clear adjoining the field in 5 years 10 Thousand thousan Tobacco Hills ^{each year} fence in & Keeping up all the fencing outside take care of Houses etc etc take care of the spring & give me Twenty Dollars yearly due 25 Decr each year & Should I sell the place & wish him to give it up under 3 years he is only pay $15 a year

22 Miss Patricks gone to Mrs Smiths Cloudy —

23rd Rained last night & came a fair Huricane along here blowed off 1 Tobacco House roof with Tobacco in it blowed down a good deal of fencing & racked our shelter very much.

1852 June 15th Plowing & weeding Corn. Dewing & suning Tobacco —— Finished Shearing Our Sheep this day Weeding part of Our Fresh ground Tobacco

17th Finished weeding corn this morning Finished prizing Hh^d Second quality Tobacco –

18 went to Mr W^m Tuckers & in the evening come up a fine Rain we replanted our Tobacco all over saturday fine time for it Weather warm & growing, Mrs smith very ^sick smith

19th Raining a little to day - Thursday we Harrowed the flat Land again, began to weed Tobacco in fresh ground on ^{2 hands}Thursday

21st Expect to start my waggon to Lynchg in the morning Hh^d seconds Began a little to day to Lay buy [by] corn Planted Peas & sewed Same weeding fresh ground Tobacco Sent 7 Bushels Corn to Capt Gilberts mill to day & could not get it & have to send again

22nd my waggon started to Lynchg this morning with our Hh^d of Tobacco & some for Mrs Lewis Brans. weeding down fresh ground Tobacco, I went to Mrs McCullocks this day —

24th my waggon got back in 3 days weeding down Tobacco in Lot on Branch & lot & replanted over this day I hope for the last time this year

25. Laying buy corn in fresh ground next to orchard. 3 plows, Lila plowing lot Tobacco cutting Rye, wednesday & to day, clear & cool Expect to Begin to Cut Lot wheat to day – planted cucumbers for Pickling & watermellons^etc

26th Cutting wheat in Lot back Garden & by prize Barn, clear & cool nights, weeding down Tobacco in Lots - & bushing new ground —

1st july 1982 weeding lot Tobacco Laying by corn on Branch & next to orchard. seasonable weather

22nd [2nd] Thrashing Rye Plowing in fresh ground toward ^{point laying by}stony weeding Lot Hill next to corn field ———

1852 July 2nd The weather is warm & like for Rain we have taken down our fine Tobacco & on Hh^d besides & expect to prize them tomorrow

3rd prizing Tobacco good in small Hh^d & Big - send 4 Bushel corn nearly 3 Bus. wheat from Mrs Hunts & 3 Bushels Rye we thrashed to Cpt Gilberts mill this day - Plowing next to orchard laid by fresh ground towards stony pint yesterday weeding down Tobacco etc Plowing sweet Potatoes after 12 Oclock 4th In the night Mrs smith Died having been sick about 5 or 6 weeks - clear day Plowing & Laying by Corn – weeding Tobacco ^{up Sweet Potaotes}Hilled

5. went to Rice before day about mrs smiths coffin got up Rye & some wheat put out Tobacco Plowing Corn, & began to cut Oats this day

6. Cutting Oats mrs smith Buried - clear day

7th Cutting Oats this day - weeding down new ground Tobacco clear fine day & getting quite dry & very Hot Finished Cutting Oats this day & Halled up Tobacco Out of new Barn, to prize Barn & suning it

8th Trod Out 1 floor wheat, suning balance our Tobacco Lila etc plowing Henry & balance assorting & prizing good & fine Tobacco, clear & fine day so far, very warm

13 Plowing nearly done laying by corn –

14th Fine shower Rain last evening weather Replanted Tobacco this morning

15. Last Evening ^{Major & Mrs Grasty & Mrs Wooding to come here tomorrow}Powerfull Rain & wind & some hail, wind Blew down great deal of our fencing not quite done prizing our good Tobacco etc, This morning cutting Trees out of Road putting up fencing etc. — —

17th Rained all night last night, fine growing ^{about this time} weather Finished yesterday Plowing fresh ground Tobacco & Finished prizing our Tobacco not quite done - halling Our wheat up oats out in^stacks

19th Fine Rains about this time we are Hilling up fresh ground. Tobacco plowing p^s corn below House

1857 May 8th Sent Sandy to Doct Whites Mill 8 Bushels Corn for meal after awhile we shall start them to Hilling — & Coltering in new ground fair weather at this time

9th Coltering & expect to get done first way in new ground to day Henry Croping for them to Hill, Sandy Halling Rails for yard today & then plowing for Jerry & Miss Neal & Plowing Pea Patch, fine weather weather 11th May 1812 It snowed 4 Inches Deep fruit trees in full Bloom & did not hurt any thing much In 1836 Spots in the Sun & I am told frost every month of the year in some places in 1812 Easter the Snow full 1 foot Deep. In 1823 17th april snow fell 18 Inches Deep In 1848 snow fell early in June, light In 1856 22nd april It snow, smartly In 1857 It snowed smartly in april & the coldest windy & wettest spring I ever saw, now 9th may & we have not finished planting corn & many persons have not planted much, the rains & freshet has been uncommon, Yates Dews Gilberts Millers Mills out of fix & Dams broke & also Worshams, - Tobacco plants very small & every thing very backward - -

10th Sunday went to Sunday School fine day

11th uncovered Plant Beds this morning & will manure shortly, Hilling at new ground laying off mountain field to Plant Corn, fine weather, Planted Pumpk =ins at mountain field — coltering at new ground croping — Finished Planting mountain field & Planted all over we had planted there Raining this evening Just before night Planted pumpkins & simblings at mountain Halling croping at new ground Halled rails for Mr Crews Plowed up Cotton Patch Potatoe Patch etc etc.

31st July 1857 Went to Riceville fine day Hilled up Fresh ground at Johns’s Spring –

Augt 14th Sent to Mill to day 3 Turns Corn 1 Bus wheat for me, Grubbing on Branch Sent this day to Cap^t Geo Gilberts mill 2 Bags seed Cotton to Pick 42½ lbs & 45 lbs 4 Bus. Corn & 1 Bus wheat for me 42½ 45 89½ 22 Finished working Lot — Rec^d the Cotton

16th went to meeting Settle Preached This day Fannie White & myself sent Jacob P. enclosed in a letter $25 a p^s making $50 for him to come upon & put in the offices at Chalk Level On Monday the 17 of August 1857

17th cloudy & like for Rain, cleaning grass off Plant Bed &- expect to cover it up close on road, Jordan & Sandy toping Tobacco over,-

18th Showers but very late they have been shrubing fixing, plant bed & Ice Ponds etc-

20 Sent up to Fannies to get out wheat wrote to Mr Baily about Buggy Finished in ½ day Henry Sandy claiborne Buck Little Henry & 2 Horse. Balance of our folks succoring Tobacco Tobacco gathering primings etc machine brot Home this evening,

21st Toping Tobacco shrubing on branch saving primings, I went to association come back Saturday went again monday morning. Pleasant Grove in Campbell,- dry weather

22nd Same work making mountain fence

23 Stayed at home

24 went to association folds shrubing fencing & Tying up primings like for Rain

25th Fixing to machine wheat fixing at lot