Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

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

Mr C J Williams P.O. Lebanon Russell Cty V^a

12th Sallie & me went to meeting SS –

13th E. H Doss left Plantation soon Saturday morning somebody told me he left Friday evening & gone way over in campbell, for which I charge him $5.00 Covering our Carriage House here coltering & Hilling Second years ground, I went to Aspen Grove Likely for Rain about his time corn Seems to come up badly fleas has eat the Tobacco plants very much wheat looks tolerable

14th Took down our Lugs here this morning, finishing covering Carriage House, Hilling fresh ground Plowing up for corn on Low grounds to day

15 Jacob P Graves gone on to CH to Start to war it with old Lincoln, great confusion in Our Country every thing unsettled Sent Henry to Aspen Grove & claiborne to Hall Logs We are Planting Corn this morning a little p^s on Low ground, cutting slate tree fixing Scare Crows Hilling in second yrs ground, Nannie going to CH to day

16th Henry Halling Logs from aspen Grove vz 1 Large one Hart to pay for palings sawed 2 for weatherboarding & 17th Halling again &

17th Halled up stack Oats & fodder this day Carried 12½ Bus. corn for meal & 2½ for overseer here & halling Logs – again here Hilling yesterday & to day Halled 5 good Hart Long Logs to Millers for weatherboarding & halled 1 Big one to pay for palings besides the 5. Chumbly went to Chalk Level to day, Hilling Henry began to Plow Corn, replanting corn this evening – cloudy & cool

[faded]Corn here Henry Plowing [faded] Simblings