Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1851 Janry 13th Burning Plant Bed by new ground next to Mr Neals - my wife gone to Mrs Hunts Fine weather about this time ———

14th Burnt Plant Bed at House & sewed it Kentucky Bull face Tobacco seed & white mustard seed sewed - in that one The one below new ground Big Brittle [Glen?] & Mr McCullocks sort mustard also same sort Tobacco seed sewed on mountain Fine weather this day going to have Land surveyed for W^m Waller ——^failure

15 went to Dan^l Johns Sale bot 5 Boxes wafers 1 stretcher 1 wheat sieve 1 whip 2 slates

20th been cutting in new ground waggon & Cart Halled wood saturday, Thursday & friday— Plowed Tobacco Lot etc nearly done grubbing Henry sick in House with Jaw ach

24 Sold to John D Hunt a Tract of Land adjoining him containing 195 acres more or less for $600 payable in 1, 2 & 3 years from this day $200 in each paym^t & carriage & Harness cover & Rench[wrench] etc. for said land rating the carriage & Harness at $190 making $790 for the land 195 acres more less right to be made & Bond given shortly as pr Rec^d given him for $1 in p^t of D^o pr Rec^t———cutting & Plowing etc etc

27 As pretty weather as I ever saw this time in year Plowing & Cutting in new^ground

28th Tooke down some Tobacco in Prize House tho not much cleared of windy & Cool this morning

29th quite cool windy weather cutting & Plowing

30 cant Plow waggon & cart Halling wood, cutting^{in new ground} Tremendous cool at this time & windy—

31 still cold Halling Rails around mountain field & fresh field this day Lila breaking flax cutting in new ground overseer broke his axis

Feby 1st very cold weather, cutting in new ground Henry Halling Rails & wood Fed gone to mill 1½ Bbls wheat for us ½ Bbl for flour ½ Bbl Corn for us & ½ Bbl for overseer

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 wheat}nothing 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 ach}wife 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 W^m Tuckers I don’t Know what for

Sept 3rd Owen gone to Logans D^o D^o

1857 July 11th. Choping in corn Laying by at stony pint Painters Painting on top of House, cloudy & like for Rain- Nannie complaining with tooth ach etc

16th Nannie sick now with Bowel Complaint Rainy fine growing weather

17th Cutting Oats to day & Plowing corn at mountain field. Hilling up & working Tobacco at new ground Halled up last stack Oats Nannie has been sick for nearly 10 days - -

august 1st 1857 - choping^corn Stoney pint Corn to day - Sent Jerry Smith to shop with Fillmore to be shod Jerry my son gone to P.O. Henry Painting Top of carriage & Jerry Painted^Gates Sandy finishing Harrowing Corn to day -

2nd went to Sunday School went to Mr Dews & mrs Hunts

3rd cloudy, fixing to go to Lynchg, going to Carry Fannies Tobacco, Balance triming out wheat yd this morning & then Hilling up new ground Tobacco Fixing for Lynchg going after machine carr^d Load for Fannie wool carr^d to Card 1 Bag fine Bag & all 16 lbs 1 D^o Coarse D^o 17½ wool Left in Lynchg 33½ lbs to be Carded augt 57 —pRec^t

7th augt 7th we have been to Lynchg car^d a Load of Tobacco for Fannie Fitzgerald, & Bro^t wheat machine Home from Mr Whittemore cost with Band $154.48. pRec^d warranted for 12 months,- our folks has been Hilling up new ground Tobacco Toping it & shoeing making for ourselves. to day after we got home went to toping fresh ground Tobacco, left machine at Fannies

1857 July 10th W^m Williams came last night one more Horse, Raining this morning & doing but little Warm fine growing weather If the ground gets wet,- Killed Lamb to day - cleared off but little^rain Finished Halling up fresh ground on Johns Branch choping in corn nearly done laying by fresh field with Plows gone to stoney pint to day at 12. runing next to corn —

11th Painting top of House to day in evening Came a very hard Rain some Hail & a real Gust,- Blowed down our fencing — etc etc

12th went to Sunday school little rain this evening Nannie Jaw & tooth swelled very much this week I was sick yesterday myself

13th Replanted Tobacco this morning our Plowing Corn at Stoney pint choping & Hilling up Tobacco at new ground Fine day my wife gone to Mrs Hunts

14th clouday this morning finishing Painting top of House - Plowing corn working new ground Tobacco fine weather ——

15th Rained last night & cloudy & like for Rain this morning began to cut Oats Fed & clem at new ground To make Paste to put paper in a room a little allum, & Gum arabic,

16th Cutting Oats to day Abram Crews here Sandy Plowing Fed at new ground Painters done about 9 Oclock & started Paid them $45

17. 18. 19 Hilling up Tobacco Cutting Oats & Plowing in corn. 19th went to meeting & Sunday school

20. 21. 22. 23 working new ground Tobacco went to Court Halling up wheat & finished cutting Oats 21st Mr Overby & his wife here & children etc etc etc

1840 June 10th My Wife Died with Consumption, Funeral Preached the 11th from 14th Chpt & 13 Verse Revelations by Elder G. Dickinson - On the 29th June 1840 My wifes Sister Susanna D Mills & her Husband Andrew L Mills came out to Pttsy^a but too late to see her sister, stayed 5 days & set out for Louisa her Fathers where they now live & have done ever since they were married -

=Very Wet Summer 1840 - & spring Wheat sorry oats good corn promising etc etc.

= On the 1st day of april 1842 JW Graves was taken with Rheumatism & did not ^get well till Harvest & indeed was not well then, but in the Harvest field on 25th June 1842 where they were cutting of wheat & on Saturday 25th had a grum =bling tooth^ache most all day at night my Jaw Prevented me & my wife from sleeping one wink next morning 26th I got Mr Neal to draw my tooth & I was then taken with a rising under my Jaw & on my throat which was near brot me near my grave & its now 26th day of July & I believe it will rise again. May God have mercy upon me & us, JW Grave_{26th July 1842}