Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 3

1847 Feby 4. Very cold & windy Fed malling Henry helping Mr Lain & halling wood the ballance cleaning out stables & raking leaves^etc

5 weather moderating halling wood & sills etc for waggon House, malling etc

6th Malling Rails & cutting down corn Stalks this morning, Mr. Lain framing waggon shelter, weather fine & fair, -

13 this week burnt Plant Bed on Branch above House striped Tobacco one day malling Rails & Grubing on Johns Branch Lila compla[in]ing & I [bleeding|[bled]] her Mr Lain at work on waggon House & little house this week — Pleasant putting latches on Gates etc etc etc, no plowing down^{by us yet}

17 Sent waggon to mill 10½ Bushels corn 1 Log to be sawed into Railing 2 by 3 In. for yard & also 2 Bags seed Cotton weighing 46 lbs 47 lbs 93 lbs^{bags in all}making new^{this day}ground fence

18 Striping Tobacco, Raining Mr Lain at work in shop

19 striping Tobacco & prizing Lugs. nearly done. Lady Jane Lame by a hurt.

20 Sent to Mr Lewis's to Roll Logs 2 hands balance cutting in new ground & Piling wood,

20 Cloudy & Raining yesterday & to day warranted E East JW this day

22 Haling Rails & fencing corn field

23 Same same & finished corn field^fence

24 began to Plow for corn in earnest

25. Plowing for corn ^{since we finished our fence}Fed malling

26. Plowing & malling & Pilling wood,

27 Raining this morning Fed shoemaking Finished striping Tobacco this day 6 lambs to this day

March 1st Finished prizing Lugs Halling wood & malling this day, weather cool & windy

1847 March 6th this week halled up some oats for seed & to feed Horses, cutting in new ground & malling, & this day Rolled Logs, Plowing for corn - weather good. only 4 Lambs alive at this time, -

March 8. breaking up Lot & burning log Heaps this day. Mr. Lain came again to work to day

9 Raining again & most tremendous wet every few days it Rains getting out seed Oats this morning Mr. Lain making carriage house doors Lala & Jane spining

10th Rained in morning about 10 oclock it faired off & a very pretty evening & we started to Lynchg with waggon & the worst time on man & beast that has been this winter viz. it began to Rain soon in the night wednesday night while we were at Locust thicket. Thursday morning dreadful, Raining Snowing & hailing & I slept in waggon the over night the rain etc put out our fire went to Campbell CH pestered some, there stayed all night all day night it snowed some, next morning started & got to Lynchg Friday about 12 oclock. Stayed all night sold our Lug Hh^ds Saturday morning 13th for $2.25. Started for home 10 or 11 oclock & got home Sunday evening Horses very much worsted, it snowed also friday night — balance burning log Heaps

16 burning log Heaps Henry gone to mill Fed helping Mr. Lain get yard post

17 Henry halling out rails Fed helping Mr. Lain Balance cutting etc

18 Finished getting yard Post brot from mill to day 15 Bus meal

18th began to sew Oats in evening this day, sewed Plant Beds over —

19 Sewing Oats and cleaning up new ground, Mr. Lain Riving boards to cover waggon House, fine weather at last

20 covered waggon House sewing oats & planted Irish potatoes & covered them with leaves, 8 loads put on the patch,

21 Raining this morning & cool -

22nd Clear Plowing for corn, treading Oats & malling wood in new ground

23 Halling up Logs to 12 oclock out of new^ground Then sewing Oats

24 Sewing oats Halling wood out of new ground

25. Sewing Oats & Halling out wood

26 This morning Raining Thrashing Oats & Fed went to mill Halled manure ^{& shoemaking}in garden in evening turned quite cold

27 This morning fair & cold we are Halling wood^{waggon & cart,}& cleaning up new ^ground Tremendous windy day —

28 moderate day — went to Mrs Coleman

29 Sewing Oats Fed Halling manure to Plant Bed on mountain etc Burnt little Plant Bed in ^{& sewed in}Garden

30 Sewing Oats & began to collar in our new ground— let Mr John D Hunt^haveour Load Stacks & nearly ½ Bushel Buck Wheat — Plant goard^seedlast week

31 Rained last night Plowing for corn Then sewing oats. Coltering in new ground quite windy Aprl 1st Sewing Oats.

2 Aprl. Sewing oats & collering in new ground This day began to Hill in new ground weather moderate & clear Sewed about 40 Bus. Oats —

3rd April 1847 Finished this morning Sewing Oats coltering & Hilling & Plowing for corn — — — Sewed flax Seed On Branch this day

4. Sunday like for Rain

5. Easter went to Republican

6. Plowing for corn^{& Potatoes}& Hilling

7 Planted Sweet & Irish Potatoes & Garden^Peas back of Garden -

15 Rained yesterday morning & last night a little, planted corn in garden Snaps Beets etc about 1st Ap^l Mouse & Pink had their calves about 12th Lilas Leg sealed about 8 Inst., — planted water melon seed in Sweet Potatoe Patch - 16 Fine Rain yesterday

16 Packing Tobacco, etc etc

17 Turned off cool & we commenced on yesterday 16 to plant corn in fresh ground & finished that p^t this evening, -

18 Fair & cool 19. Cloudy & cool planting corn below barn in big field

19 Laying off corn ground & collering & Halling in new ground

20 Same work 21st began to Plant corn at 12 Oclock Finished breaking corn ground 20th - 22nd Planting corn in big field - Johns, - Tobacco plants small

23. Planting corn etc weather dry

24th Rained a little last night, nearly done planting Johns field - uncovered little plant Bed above House, -

25 fair day, cool weather Finished planting corn except flat^Land 26 Beding flat ground & cleaning up on Branch, alse & Jane Hilling in new ground

1846 June 29th Plowing left hand side Path thro field ground very hard 30 Finished weeding Tobacco this oth side branch - & Replanted in the evening it Rained a ^little

30th Still Laying by corn in big field —

July 1st Rained a smart shower last night weeding Tobacco the other side^{& hilling up}branch from house

2nd Plowing corn & weeding Tobacco. last evening about night it rained a pretty shower 3rd Rained yesterday & last night

3rd This morning cloudy & ground too wet to work, Hilling up new ground Tobacco - etc etc Rained 2 Showers to day, ground too wet except Our new ground which we are hilling up, top a little Tobacco —

4th July cleared^offthis morning, - it rained a good deal last night, —

5 A very pretty day Rained a little in evening

6th A little cloudy very seasonable weather Plowing this morning - finished new ground Tobacco to day - & Halling up wheat, -

7 Halling up wheat, weeding Tobacco in second year ground, - Fed Fell off the cart tongue & cart run over him, he got up afterwards & walked home from fresh ground

8 Treading out wheat & weeding Tobacco

9 Sent to mill in cart & Plowing lots of Tobacco & finishing weeding second yrs ground

10 Cutting Oats at Stony Point began yesterday at home,

11 Cutting oats at Stony Point. Fed has got out & weeding Tobacco — Finished cutting Oats this day —

12th Went to Rice to meetings —

13th Phil Plowing Tobacco Lots. Henry & myself halling up wheat & Oats. balance hilling up Tobacco Lots.