Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

24th Put out Our Second rate Tobacco Toping over & worming next to Whiteheads In evening Came up a tremendous hard rain wind & Gust washed away all fencing Blew down some for me took us till night to fix up again

25 Jerry & Henry Came home from Lynchg bringing 6 Bags Guano 1000 for aspen Grove sent the waggon on right off

26. Sunday Jerry went to association at upper Banister Carried the Letter from Strait Stone Church & $5 in money Doct Thompson came over to day Sunday to Mr Bybees children as he told me himself

27th Halled up Fodder & 1 stack Oats & then Henry went to mill & got flour from yates & gone down to aspen Grove to Load & start to Lynchg again with 2 Teams & all the Tobacco from there I Carr^d Jerry to Chalk Level to live this morning for 12 months for $50Picked up & halled 1 Load apples, now Toping & worming Tobacco —

28 Started to Lynchg & carried Sallie on to School at Hollins Institute, worming & succoring Tobacco Rained very hard again Finished Carrying the Tobacco to Lynchg from Aspen Grove made only 5442 lb & sold for $290 & some Cents Expense in halling $16 & some cents overseer part $39.11. Settled with him for Tobacco & oats made 1859 & Oats made 1860 I Bot for moses, & he asked off & I took them myself I have paid for them &

Wednesday 25th May 1836. It commenced raining & continued on cloudy & raining More or less and on the 6th day of June being Monday it commenced raining very hard and that night Such a rain fell as never has been Known in this part of the Country Mr Millers Mill Saw Mill & Cotton machine & several other ^houses washed away one colt drowned, Doct Whites [unclear] & and the under work of his Mill Some washed away so that he cant grind meal Whiteheads Mill dam broke, Gower Keatts Mill house & all gone - Degarritts all gone, Patricks, shanks, gone - all I have yet heard from Banister Brid[g]e gone Stinking river Bridge gone -

1837 February the first & last Jany is fine & warm we have sewed 3 plant Beds Two on my Spring branch & one John’s spring branch —

Tuesday 7th February 1837 - = 1839 July 13th It is said that powdered allum say 1 Table Spoon full will purify a Hh^{d of water}& make the ^water good to Drink - to a Tub full of 4 Galls 1 Tea Spoon full will purify the water & make it good_{News paper Herald}

1842 Novr 30th Hailed nearly all night the 29th & till nearly 12 Oclock this 30th Novr 1842 about shew [shoe] Deep - = myself & Lady went to Lynchg in this month,-