Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 1, Part 5

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Puzzle 237 I have to plant a Grove to obtain the Girl I love, this Grove I must compose of nineteen lines on nine strait lines & on each line, five lines must be placed Or I never shall see my true loves face Ye sons of art come lend me your aid, to satisfy this curious maid

[line drawings of two six-pointed stars answer Jeremiah M. Graves

1840 Dec. 1st or 2nd I started to Orange & Louisa to see our relations first night got to Charlotte CH. started early next morning Friday about 12 Oclock it commenced snowing then rainling & hailing got to Farmville that night Saturday morning still hailing & then raining & freezing traveled to Couplande there On Sunday morning (still snowing) but the stage [ ?] that Ja^s River was Frozen across & I could not cross I Then returned home where I arrived Tuesday following Spending 7.61 in my Trip JW Graves

1833 my ²³⁸ wife was sick better than a week about the middle of May a little after I had a severe spell & one the 31th May the same month Fanny white was taken sick & she still is very sick June 1st 1833 = Doct White came to see my wife 2 or 3 times in 1833 & he came to see Fanny white about Twice and the last of Feby 1835 he came once to see ^{once [ma]} & came to see my wife the 6th march 18[35] she was taken sick on monday night 2nd March 1835, On Friday the 6th he came in the snow about ½ leg deep stayed all night next day went to Mr Lewis s came back about 10 Oclock at night stayed all night again Sunday 8th w[ent] to Mr Lewis again & from there he we[nt] to Mr Beacons wife & came back to my house on Monday 9th stayed Tuesday & till Wednesday about one oclock & went to Mr Deacons again, came back to my House on Thursday evening stayed all night & till about one oclock Friday & left – Snow nearly gone –

Doct Rawleigh White D^r 1835 To JW Graves D^o June 1st To 6 Barrels Corn @ $2.50 $15.00 1836 Janry Doct White came once to See Fanny White & Louisa Sometime last Summer Jany 2 ¹⁸³⁶ Doct White came yesterday the 1st to See Henry - left this evening came once more to see Henry making 2 Visits 1836 Oct 11th Doct ^R White D^r To 1 Pied steer $20

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