Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1861 Janry 25. cloudy & likely for falling weather

" Janry 26th Rained & hailed last night & this mor =ning Turned cold & snowing & Hailing & about 8 Oclock in morning snowing hard. Finishing striping Tobacco what we have down this morning, & then Mr Chumney will cut me out a pr shoes, double for wet wheather, shelling corn making Brooms etc to day - dreadful weather all this year, & indeed wet all the fall Snowing fast about night & stoped about dark my old sow lost 3 pigs, awful weather, & Keeps snowing allmost every week, or raining, mended Dorans Shoe & Charles, to day, fixed spool frames

27th went to Strait Stone Prayer meeting only 3 there besides myself, Kelley L & Rob^t Yates –

28th Cutting & malling in new ground on Hill next to wheat field, I went to Plantation met Pal coming after me, his mama sick, sent Jordan after Doct Thompson A.W. she has something like flux, cold in her bowls & hope nothing serious he gave her a Blue Pill with some opium in it & recommended oil in a day or Two & eat lite, snow dont melt but little, very disagreeable weather

29th I went to Plantation Malissa only tolerable Cutting malling & get some Logs for granary

30. Getting Logs for Granary I staid at home Lila sick. Sent for Mrs Coleman to see her

31st Covering Kitchen to day all hands, sent to Mill got my bag for overseer his sent is ours standing^Turn Little Henry Sick, Malissa better & nearly well Lila not much the matter with her

Feby 1st 1861. covering Kitchen got along badly yesterday, looks likely for falling weather this morning began to Rain about 12 Halled stack fodder from Peach Orchard Henry

& Mrs Johns & Scared about something etc etc

14th Sent Bob ^^{& claiborne} to old place to Roll Logs Sewing Oats, fencing here to day — Raining a little Sewing Oats, burning Brush etc Fencing in early part of day

15th Sewing Oats & fencing, Nannie & me went up to Mr Moses to day & settled with them & Jacob P. about my trip to Louisa, etc - & they gave me my commission to buy me a horse ^{altho I offered to give it to them}etc I gave Mr Moses my horse Ball I got from W^m Shields; expect to Roll Logs at aspen grove tomorrow; very good weather

16h All hands but Smith & Charles went to aspen Grove to Roll, & I went too & it will push them to get done sent Phil to shop by Pal Smith went to Mill & Chalk Level, clem piling Brush & trash

17th Rained all day I staid at home Fannie W Fitzgerald here cool rain

18th cloudy & like for Rain, Halled up stack Fodder & Oats this morning - very cool 15 or 16 Lambs at Plantation, one stole last Friday night or day did not ^{that is did not finish}roll all the Logs. It began to snow a little about 10 or 11 Oclock & by 12 It Snowed very fast till late in the evening 3 or 4 Inches Deep & real winters day. We halled up 1 stack fodder & 1 stack Oats & began to Hall wood till evening then went to striping Tobacco it has been cold ever since Friday - work in new some this morning

19th Striping Tobacco to day halled up 1 Load dry wood, finished all the Tobacco we had down I went to Mr Hunts Place to have spring branch Ditched We have sent 2 hands to Mr Hunts place to Roll Logs 1 hand to Blanks’s 1 to Allen Scruggs 1 to whitehead & 5 to aspen Grove to roll this spring - snow till [faded] to day - & 1 to Ja^s Kelleys to Roll