Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1857 Sept 19th & 20th Went to meeting our folks Tyed up fodder & cutting tops till it rained & wormed & succored Tobacco till night on Saturday Fannie WF. & Kate S & Jeremiah W Graves gave in their experience & on Sunday the 20th was Baptised by Bro Mason, Little Jerry got a fall after carriage & hurt himself very much and sick very Ill & on Monday^{Funeral Preached by Elder JB Hardwick 2nd Saml 12 Ch _{23rd V.}} 21st Died about 2 Oclock

21st. Wormed & succoring Tobacco Cut tops p^t of day

22nd Rained nearly all day carried Jerry to Cap^t Fitzgeralds, worming & succoring Tobacco

23rd Began to Cut Tobacco & attended to fodder at mountain, cleared off very pretty & Mr Hardwick Preached Jerrys Funeral & he was Buried Cutting Tobacco & Hung all Jerrys & Nannies & began to Cut at Johns Branch Cut 950 stacks ^{Johns branch} opened Fodder etc

24th Cutting Tobacco on Johns s branch Henry took all day to go to carry Fannie home stacked only 1 stack fodder - last night

25. Worming & succoring at new ground opened Fodder Jordan gone to mill 5 Bus corn Sandy Cutting scaffold at Johns branch Henry & claiborne fixing new Barn to put Tobacco in

25th Finished this morning cutting & hanging Johns branch first cutting wormed & succored Tobacco at mountain in morning Sent to mill 5 Bus corn for meal, stacked fodder last night & sent Robin & Clay to shop etc

26th moving Tobacco from old prize Barn to new wormed & succored at new ground Sent Fillmore to shop greased horses for snits this day Calf has got his Leg Broke

11th May 1859 Plowing or coltering & Harrowing Corn on far Branch, Replanting there to day I went to Riceville yesterday —

12th coltering & Harrowing & Replanting Corn Mr Chumbley fixing steps at front door fair cool weather, ground getting very dry, have not rain for 3 weeks

13th Bushing wheat & Rye, Picking plant Beds & manuring them, fixing Garden to Plant Greens Weeding Sweet Potatoes, Henry & claiborne Plowing & Harrowing Corn, Mr Chumbly fixing Carriage Tongue, & table,

14 Plowing or Harrow Corn weeding corn in Bottoms on far Branch

15 Bro John D Hunts funeral Preached by Witherington & Hardwick at SStone meeting House this

16. I went to Court, Halling Rock for chimney. weeding Corn etc etc

17th Halling Logs to Mill & Plank from Worsham Mills, Sent Corn Balance planting Peas etc, this morning cloudy & like for Rain

18th Rained Halled 2 Loads ^^stocks to Worhsams Mill & Halled Plank home began to Plant Tobacco

19. Planting Tobacco fine season in fresh ground, Mr Overby here this evening still cloudy & like for Rain -

20 & 21st Finished Planting fresh ground Tobacco little Corner in Lot some by Corn House Planted out Garden in Greens & Planted Some Yam Screan - Beding Lot For Tobacco Planted Sugar Cane in Lot Warm fine weather, weeding Corn to day part of the day, Mrs Hunt sent her Bureau here to day - Bot for Mr Chumbly 2 Bbls Corn 3 for myself & 10 for Bro Hunts Est.