Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1855 Augt 5th Johnson is very Sick Doct Thompson has been to See me once for bleeding at nose & Johnson once very Sickly times about & good many Dying with Typhoid Fever etc etc – Fine growing weather at this time Lost Our bull sometiming lost at Capt Fitzgeralds plantation – got a letter from Jacob to day – Fine Rain this evening & to night

6th Plowing up Turnip Patch expect to sew it to day Put 3 Basket fulls of Guano on it Firing Plank cleaning out wheat yard sawing off Corn House Logs etc etc

7th working Out Johns branch Tobacco hand weeding etc sawing shingles clocks - cloudy & like for Rain —

8th Henry arnold & Bro. at work this morning @9/- pr day - on my granary shed etc worming Lot Tobacco this morning choping Tobacco on John’s branch, halling up Timbers for Corn house barn sho[e] making makers shop etc etc –

9th cloudy & like for Rain Henry & Jordan Halling up Timbers for Granary & Tobacco House sewing Turnip Land On Johns s Branch yesterday choping Corn this side of Branch Towards Orchard

10 Rained in evening, worked out Lot Tobacco, Toping new ground in evening

11 Tobacco Toping in new ground & Johns Branch Finishing Hilling up Lot– like for Rain, –– went to John D Hunts & Capt Clements to day to see about machine Plowing & Hilling up 3rd years land next to Orchard, did not quite get down with Ho[lost in margin]