Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

& forward it to T C Green of Richmond have started my acc^t with him & have got to see W^m H Waller yet all of which must be arranged this week & sent to Richmond, my son Jerry has been at home for about a month & started to the army on Tuesday last & that day the snow fell about 10 or 15 Inches deep I was at the CH till wednesday, I got home friday & Jerry started again this morning 26th March Come back last Wednesday on acc^t of the weather, to day the weather is 26th Sunday very pretty & snow nearly gone – & moderate Pride & Doran started to school to Mr Boyd the 7th March 1864 the 1st week they only went about 2 or 3 days the next they went nearly all the week & the last week before the 29th they only went Monday & Tuesday & it snowed Tuesday this day week &

29th Raining & we are striping Tobacco here sold Henry a Pig for $15.

april 1 Pride & Doran went to school 2 days this week the weather very wet & bad —

1850 Sept 9th Rained we were Plowing, ^{& Hilling} up our tobacco by new Barn & Rain stoped us Fanned Out Wheat & shelled corn Rained nearly all night

10. worming & succoring & toping Our Tobacco cloudy & like for Rain ———

11 Pulling Fodder in Johns’s field till 12 Oclock & then finishing Hilling up lot by new Barn — tying up fodder in evening

12 Sold W^m Waller A p^s Land supposed to be over 100 acres to be surveyed^shortly by next to Mrs Hunts for 3$ pr acre $100 to be paid next June 1851 & then from 1st June one & 2 years for Balance, to be settled as soon as surveyed.

13. worming & succoring new ground Tob^a & Covering Barn there — etc etc

14th Sent to saw mill waggon & Cart 3 Logs 1 Long & 1 short. both, to be sawed into squared Edged Plank[s] 3 Bushels wheat for negroes & 1½ Bushels sent for flour, 1 Bushel of which got of Mr Neal who made 17 Bus. ½ Bushel of mine own crop toping over new ground to day wormed & succored ^alsoit & Covered our Barn ourselves this day —

⁼15. Rained in evening did not go to ^{at Rices}meeting

16. Rained in morning cleared off in evening Succoring & worming Tobacco at House Some spining Fed making Cates shoes,-

17. clear & cool Toping & worming & succoring ^{all over}Tobacco not Hardly half done Pulling fodder yet & not cut a Plant of Tobacco Pulling fodder in Johns’s field this –

18th Pulled fodder till evening & then so cloudy & like for Rain we stoped wormed some Tobacco & toped some & cut fresh ground tops

19 Pulling fodder, Put sheep in lot this morning I went to Mrs Colemans’ to see about her Bay stand stole clear & warm my wife gone to Mr JD Hunts. & a day or Two ago went to Mrs Hunts

1851 Janry 13th Burning Plant Bed by new ground next to Mr Neals - my wife gone to Mrs Hunts Fine weather about this time ———

14th Burnt Plant Bed at House & sewed it Kentucky Bull face Tobacco seed & white mustard seed sewed - in that one The one below new ground Big Brittle [Glen?] & Mr McCullocks sort mustard also same sort Tobacco seed sewed on mountain Fine weather this day going to have Land surveyed for W^m Waller ——^failure

15 went to Dan^l Johns Sale bot 5 Boxes wafers 1 stretcher 1 wheat sieve 1 whip 2 slates

20th been cutting in new ground waggon & Cart Halled wood saturday, Thursday & friday— Plowed Tobacco Lot etc nearly done grubbing Henry sick in House with Jaw ach

24 Sold to John D Hunt a Tract of Land adjoining him containing 195 acres more or less for $600 payable in 1, 2 & 3 years from this day $200 in each paym^t & carriage & Harness cover & Rench[wrench] etc. for said land rating the carriage & Harness at $190 making $790 for the land 195 acres more less right to be made & Bond given shortly as pr Rec^d given him for $1 in p^t of D^o pr Rec^t———cutting & Plowing etc etc

27 As pretty weather as I ever saw this time in year Plowing & Cutting in new^ground

28th Tooke down some Tobacco in Prize House tho not much cleared of windy & Cool this morning

29th quite cool windy weather cutting & Plowing

30 cant Plow waggon & cart Halling wood, cutting^{in new ground} Tremendous cool at this time & windy—

31 still cold Halling Rails around mountain field & fresh field this day Lila breaking flax cutting in new ground overseer broke his axis

Feby 1st very cold weather, cutting in new ground Henry Halling Rails & wood Fed gone to mill 1½ Bbls wheat for us ½ Bbl for flour ½ Bbl Corn for us & ½ Bbl for overseer

1856 June 10. thining corn ground too wet to Plow striping Tobacco in barn Back of Garden cloudy & Raing a little —— Jordan Lowry & Buck getting better & so is Johnson Sandy is very Sick & the Doct has been here nearly 20 times ^{here this evening} since last of april

11th Striping tobacco belonging to Jerry s etc & Fed Thining corn etc Replanted Tobacco on Branch Sent Jerry to Riceville to get [name?] Paragone etc – – Jacob gone to Fannies

14 Raining the most of this week striping most^Tobacco of this week, here to day - weeding Corn & Plowing Corn We have thined the most of Our Corn — we think Sandy has been for 3 days very low a little better

15 Sandy Smartly better Doct T. here this morning clear pretty day ¬– we have not sheared our ^{yet –}sheep =Jordan Lowry & Buck getting better

16th I went to Court & returned same day - settled with Mar & Give up James McCullocks Heirs negroes or give W^m H Waller an order for them

17 Finished weeding & Plowing Corn below orchard this morning Began to Bed & Plant Tobacco in Lot when it Commenced ^Raining raining and we had to stop striped Tobacco ^evening in

18 Replanting Tobacco this morning & Planted all the Beds made in Lot ground very wet we have finished Thining corn Fannie Fitzgerald sent her waggon down with my one of my calves & got Tobacco plants and my wheat Fan which I Lent her or she takes for $5

19 Plowing & weeding corn at stony pint Plowing & Hilling up Irish Potatoes & work Cotton this day ¬fine clear day

23rd Sewing wheat Pulling corn putting up apples & Irish Potatoes etc, Halling up 4 Loads out of upper part of Lot & shucked last night - warm weather ————

24 Bob went down to Mrs Hunt bro^t her Loom & Bureau & got some hops Sewing wheat next to Cap^t whiteheads choping around stumps where we sewed wheat in fresh ground & cutting down & Pilling stacks - I went to Barksdale Hubbards & Dawsons & aspen Grove collected for Grasty - - etc - swapted Horses with John shields to day gave him Charly & Lucy for his Gray Horse John & $5 to Book [Boot]

25. went to W^m H Wallers for Grasty - Finished sewing wheat next to Whiteheads fixed Gate pulling Corn & Halling wood.

26. went to James McHaney|Ja^s W McHanys]] for Grasty. pulling & Halling corn & stacks out of Lot. began to Plow & shuck corn in evening - I went to old Place for Jennings

27th Court Martial held here to day, my wife & Mrs Hunt gone to Fannies & Kates Sewing wheat in Lot Shucked out corn putting stacks in stable loft - & housing corn,- fine weather —

28th my wife came home I went to Strait Stone Pray meeting & to Plantation

29th Mr Cothran Sent the waggon up & I am this morning cleaning out stables, getting pieces for chimney Bob is cutting wood sent Jerry down after Bet & a p^s cloth to Miss Neals to weave, sewing & Harrowing in wheat in upper part of Lot - to day fixing to start to Lynchg in evening. Raining some -

30. 31 1 Novr 2nd D^o working on chimneys Daubing Houses Cutting etc raining all the time this week.