Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1858 June 16th Finished throwing Dirt from Corn Peas etc etc. Plowing & weeding Corn working Cotton & Potatoes Plowing overseers Truck Patches this morning -- my wife gone to Mr Hunts & Carr^d Molassses home she Borrowed of them

17th Weeding corn on hill by Middle old Barn & Plowing left side, Henry sick, began to weed on left side this evening, wheat looks very sorry Oats looks tolerable well at this time

18. Weeding Corn & Plowing left side of Path in field Henry Sick yet fine clear hot day —

19th Sheared sheep Plowing & weeding Corn got over Plowing & Plowing on Branch marked Turned out 9 she Lambs making 29 with the Ram we shall keep,-

20. went to Sunday School Mr anderson gone & nobody attended but Mr Jno W Lewis

21st I went to Court Fayette Clement failed to meet me, I collected money from Anderson for Faris^s Tobacco & Small Rec^d for myself We had a fine Rain Sunday evening & this morning we are replanting Tobacco In evening went to weeding corn & finished Corn & Peas & nearly done cotton, & Hilling up Sweet Potatoes, weeding & Plowing Tobacco in Lot by alse House & by guano yard

22nd Plowing & weeding Tobacco in Lot

23rd Began to Lay by corn 2 Plows Sandy Plowing Tobacco at Crews’s Mr Lain Set me up 2 Tobacco Hh^ds Henry sick, my wife Sallie & Jerry gone to Fannies, weeding Tobacco in Lot yet, - - Foggy damp month

24rd weeding Tobacco in Lot. Laying by corn with Plows, Sandy Plowing Tobacco, I expect to begin to Cut wheat & Rye to day - only cut Lot wheat Finished weeding lots Tobacco