Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1859 March 3rd Sent to Mill for overseer Brought Turn meal for us left his there we Thrashed Out one stack Oats

4th Mr Roby quit on acc^t of no coal about 3 Oclock Halling leaves wood Claiborne malling Covered Potatoe Patch halled leaves in Big lot & Corn field, I went down to Yates Mr Lewis’s & aspen Grove, fine windy day My Boar gone Two or Three weeks –

5. Winding & Cleaning Oats to Sew. Henry laying off Corn Land claiborne beding Fencing etc etc Mr ^W Chumbly & Balance This day Swapted off Rose with Tom Owen for a Jenny named Jane & her Jenny Colt. Jenny about 4 yrs old little Colt about 4 or 5 months old,– jenny is a female donkey

6th. Beautiful day & all gone to Edge Hill to meeting but myself,- weather moderate

7th Jonathan Dawson came here very tight last night & stayed all night, very sick from it - This morning about light it commenced raining all morning till 12 then we were Shelling Corn & fixing plows & Harrow to Plank Corn, in evening pulled down & Halled old shop to burn etc etc etc Jacob left this evening with Mr Moses,

8 Nanny & Kate Sallie & negro Catham went to Doct Thompsons got some teeth drawn & ^wewere fixing overseers Garden etc till night

9th Finished overseers Truck Patch this morning Squared barn Logs & Plowing for Oats in big Lot fine weather

10th Plowing for Oats & fencing Began this morning to Sew Oats, Jacob commenced Plowing this morning. Here fine weather I went yesterday to Aspen Grove gave out

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}