March 11, 1856 - March 20, 1856

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July 22nd 1859 J D Hunts Estate Dr To JW Graves
4½ Butter @ 15¢ 1 lb Butter for Do 15¢ charged

Commencing 11th March 1856. This morning I
Fed my Dogs as usual Caesar I reckon got Chocked
& Dyed in 2 minutes or 4 minutes, we are treading
out Oats this morning fencing about Tobacco
Tobacco lot. Very like for Snow Soon this morning
Very cold indeed windy & tremendous yesterday —
Jordan Halling Rails around Corn field fence & lot
at House yesterday & to day – — wrote to Danl
Brown
Indiana in this month etc etc

14 Plowing for corn till yesterday began to
sew Oats Plowing Tobacco Lot by Garden
Henry & Jacob Finishing Garden, Jordan halled
Rails 2 days this week & finished malling
wood in new ground, alse cleaning out
Stable, Kitty Clem etc cleaning up on Branch
Light full of Snow the 13th Thursday in evening

14th A beautifull day indeed clear & moderate

15th Went to meeting at Strait Stone fine day -

16th Beautiful day. pretty Cool & dry at this time
Plowing up & sewing Oats On branch malling
wood & Halling out new ground took up
Irish Potatoes this day set out Turnips for
seed about 100 in Turnip Patch last
week,- clem alse & Kitty Piling wood in
new ground,-

17th Raining to day Sewing some Oats Shoe mending
fencing sent Henry to store, sent 1/6 for Paint & allum

20 Finished fencing Sewing Oats by Malissa House
windy - - Fannie White here this evening
Jerry & George Edd finished nailing on old Paling
[water stain]day - Striping to day & yesterday [smudge][water stain] Rain, sent Mrs Moseleys will to
[water stain] Geo. - Sawed about 40
[water stain] etc

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fransalman

The top of the page has an entry from 1859, after JD Hunt has died . It is crossed off with diagonal slash marks.
This page and the following are out of sequence.

fransalman

Last entry: I don't know who "Geo." is.