Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 3

1846 July 30 Rained quite hard last night beeting apples - 30 Succoring Tobacco & worming began to Hill up lots for the last time Sewed Turnip Patch & also in lot by Tobacco House

31st Getting up apples this day –

August 1st Plowing & finishing hilling up Lot by prize Barn & Beeting apples this

2nd Sunday & cloudy but no rain

3rd cloudy this morning Toping worming & Succoring Tobacco this morning Sent Henry Clay to Mrs Hunt to go Lynchg alse Drying apples this morning —

4th Getting up apples to Beet to day Fair & beautiful weather

5 Working Tobacco Lots by & above Granary

6 Beeting apples & finishing lots

7 Plowing & Hilling up Branch Tobacco

8 Went after Mr JD & CA Hunts Still & working as Friday & done on Branch yet

9th Weather dry & Hot corn begins to suffer a little for Rain —

10 Finishing hilling up Tobacco on branch Henry gone back to Mr Hunts after still worm & tub etc little shower of rain at Mrs Hunts yesterday a little here last night after we got home weather dry & very warm, began to dry peaches this morning

11 Worming & succoring tobacco

12 Stilling most of this week

13 Went to see Capt Coleman & he Died about 9 or 10 Oclock in morning

14 he was Buried this day our hands at work On Road Malissas child a Girl Born on the 12 Inst Inst at night—

15th Working on Our Road this morning Digging Irish potatoes & beeting Peaches working oat garden & drying fruit about this time 16th Meeting at S. S. M

17 Went to Court & stayed till Tuesday night the Suit of Moon ags^t me taken out of Court & referred[?]each man paying his Own Cost. Worming & succoring Tobacco

19 began to still again

20 Still treding out wheat ^{& finished}& Digging Irish Potatoes & Drying fruit etc etc etc

21st treading wheat & stilling & Drying fruit

22nd Finished treading wheat & stilling

23 Sunday Rained this evening 2 good showers

24th Sewed turnip Patch Over, & also in garden toping & succoring & worming Tobacco

25. Raining this morning & all night making Baskets, shoeing making for C.S. & spining etc etc Wind cool & from N.W.

26 Succoring Tobacco & Sent to mill in the evening began to Pull fodder in big field

27th Pulling fodder in big field yesterday lent Mr. Crews Lady Jane to go to Mill

28. Beating cider etc etc

29. worming new ground Tobacco & Tying up fodder

30. Sunday - weather seasonable this week cloudy nearly every^{& raining}day

31. Pulling fodder & finished big field.

Sept 1st Pulling fodder & succoring Tobacco

- 2. Phil gone to mill 2 Bags & carried one stack to be sawed into squared edged Plank

3 about Fodder & succoring & worming^tobacco

4 Saving Fodder & in Tobacco

5th Still the same & not done pulling yet, put savining about 8 stacks.

1846 Sept 7th Weather has been quite wet the past week but now fair & warm We have 2 stacks fodder ready to stack & on days pulled more & have not cut any tops yet

8 Finished pulling fodder & have got 8 stacks of fodder stack & 2 in House & 2 more to stack

9 Cutting tops this day & worming & succoring Tobacco — Doct Miller has been 2 times to see Phil & furnished some medicine came this morning when I did not look for him — Malissa also sick

10 Cutting tops all day & tying them up - in Big field

11th become uneasy & sent for Doct Miller again for Phil he is quite sick

12th Stayed all night & put a Blister on him.

13. Doct Miller has been 4 or 5 times to see Phil & he is quite low

14 Cutting tops & finished succoring

15 Succoring Tobacco - 16 succoring Tobacco & have not cut any Tobacco yet Phil very low — wrote to Fanny W by Bro Hubbard sent her 50¢

16 Phil Died Just before day 17th & buried in evening, weather changeable

17. Succoring Tobacco 18th, weather cool

19. began to Cut Tobacco yesterday on Branch & will Keep on till one get over. finished on Branch & began in Lot to day. Fed gone to mill new corn

20th Callahan Died this morning

21st Cutting Tobacco & this morning wrote to

to Fanny White & sent the Bundle & letter to Mr. Grastys to carry to Court to send on to Fanny White as Mr Hubbard failed to go on to Beulah association at Milton this morning Bundle still here Mr. Grasty did not go to Court ^{sent the letter on 26th by} _{mail to Milton}

22nd cutting Tobacco at second years ground & new ground to day yesterday cut Granary lot

26 Finished cutting over Once & stacking Tops & got up 2 Loads corn in all Lila taken sick yesterday Evening & this morning 26th her child Born 10 ^A.M.Oclock

27 Went to Mr McCullock several sick

28 Halling up Tobacco nearly filled prized Barn & new ground barn

29. succoring Tobacco etc Cut Lot by ^Houseprize

30. firing Tobacco etc

Oct. 1 Put up Hogs to Fatten

Oct. 2 Halling up Corn & finished right ^{side^ PulCornpulling} Shucking out corn to day -

4 Sunday fair give alse a Rake of ^{ague & Fever}Tarter for

5. Cutting Lot Tobacoo by Granary Digging Irish Potatoes & Henry Halling wood & Rails

6 cutting Tobacco on Branch Henry halling rails at stack & Rocks to build chimney

7 Cutting Buck Wheat. Digging Irish Potatoes. Making wine, alse sick Housed about 15 or 20 Bbl corn wrote to Capt Boxley 8 shucking corn etc

9 & 10 Housing Tobacco shucking & Housing^corn

11 Geo. W. Coleman Funeral Preached by Elder J. T. McLaughlin 85 Pslam 8V. weather cool

12 began this evening to Sew wheat big Granary - night it rained all night

13th Rained hard till 12 Oclock & then broke off Cool, we did do much out this day

14 Housing Tobacco & shoemaking

15 gone to Mr. John D Hunts to get apples to put up for winter = ground still full wet to sew wheat — = Picking out cotton

16th Sewing wheat in fresh ground next to orchard - spreading f[l]ax to rot 16 Sewing wheat in fresh ground next^orchard

17. D^o D^o & spreading out flax cutting down corn stalks next to middle^barn

18. Sunday S.S. meeting clear fine day

19. Finished sewing wheat in Granary lot & Killed Beef. weighed 200 lbs

20 Digging sweet Potatoes large frost & up for seed 1 Bbl in closet & Box & Bbl in stack ——— Top stack

21. Sewing wheat in fresh ground & putting up apples & Irish Potatoes

22nd Finishing fresh ground^sewingwheat & Pulling corn & halling wood

23. ^{sewed square opposit[e] to middle Barn}My wife taken sick before day this morning & about 8 Oclock in morning had her second children ^{Doct Sutphin & Mrs. Neal here} Girl Pulling & halling corn out of Big field left hand side of Path towards Barns —

24 Halling up corn etc —25th Sunday

26 Halling up corn & finished the big field

27. Shucking & Housing corn — & had at night a Shucking & finished

28 & 29th Finishing Housing^Corngot big corn House nearly full & short corn to Fatten Hogs & cutting down & getting up corn stalks to sew wheat —

30 Halling corn stalks & began t[o] Break up ground for wheat