Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

6 Decr 1856 Halled Mr Yates 1 Log & Did not get any meal to day yesterday Sent 2 Bags wheat for flour 5 Bushels Fed alse & Kitty Grubbing Sandy & claiborne cutting stacks & wood - Owe Mr Yates 2 logs now Small = Jordan has not come back yet, ^{about 10 Oclock}Come back Jacob Turning out his Hh^d Tobacco to day etc Bro^t Scantling 1 Turn Chop stuff & 3 Turns meal this morning & evening 1 D^o & left 2 of Corn & 5 of wheat carried another log for Yates in evening & 2 Turns Corn for meal standing Turns etc Sent 2 Logs this evening making 3 trips to day last time 1 for Yates the other for ¾ Square Edged to be divided —

7th clear cool day being Sunday

8th Killed 8 Hogs this morning Cut them out Salted them Grubing & Cutting at new ground Halled up stack fodder this morning Jacob fixed cart shelter etc etc etc

9th Grubing cutting & Halling wood - etc waggon starts to Lynchg to day

15 The last week we have been to Lynchg Carried Jacobs Tobacco & some for me & Turkeys sold the sorry Lugs for $6¾. Turkeys 60¢ round Cut & Grubed while we were gone, & striped some Tobacco in new prize Barn, bot a Carriage & Brought Home from school She came to Lynchg last week say about the 15th decemr 1856 - Did not bring any of her accounts with her

16th Put Plank in Barn Cutting stacking wood Fixing Corn & Cob Crusher to day Malissa, Catharine Fannie Johnson & Nelson I sent up to Fannie W Fitzgerald to stay one year.

Janry 10th Sent Jerry Smith to Chalk Level. Mr Chumney gone to Plantation to make alse coffin & see about her, my wife going to Mrs Colemans to see Mattie who is sick we hear Our folks are cutting & malling wood Henry is Barking ribs this morning & then to cutting wood still cloudy & like for Rain, I am going to Mr Hunts place to sell Bed, bot by allen, & he fail[e]d to comply with turns of sale & then I want to go to aspen Grove to see about burying alse this morning she was buried Mr Chumney made coffin

11th Mrs Hargrave here last night & went home^{this morning} Raising cider house to day clem spining

12th. Mr Chumney looking for white sow this morning, cutting & malling & Halling wood to day cleaning of [f] Plant Beds to Burn, Halled up one Stack Oats yesterday I am going to meeting to day

13. went to meeting House to meeting

14th Hired Fannie & Johnson Fannie to Fannie W Fitzgerald for Valuals & clothes Johnson to Joseph M Moses on same terms all went from here yesterday evening This morning Hailing raining & freezing at night nearly still raining & freezing Bob & Henry making Brooms & claiborne Little Henry at work on Basket Smith picking Cotton Clem spining overseer made [ing] Blades & whitted saw - dolefull weather -

15 no better Rained all night & to day Our Dining room is nearly wet all over water standing fixed it to day shelled Corn & striped Tobacco in prize Barn, sent Jerry Smith|Smith]] to Mill,-

16th Rained nearly all night again, shelling & this morning still cloudy & like for Rain, cleared off