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Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 13
July 17, 1860 - July 23, 1860
17th July 1860 Stacked Oats all day & finished put 1 stack in stable & put up 14 stacks claiborne stack one stack Bob stacked balance
18 - Henry Complaining gave him some Pills claiborne Jointing shingles all day balance began to shrub for Corn another on road my wife & Mrs Hunt gone to Mrs Colemans to see Isaac Overby who is there sick, bob Carried Mrs Hunt Carriage to shop to have tires, etc, Pal Came after work for his Mama Sent her 3 lbs wool Bags & all & some grease to grease it - Dry & Hot weather
19th I went to aspen Grove this day bob gone after Mr Overby & Mrs Hunt at Mrs Coleman Doct Thompson went to see Isaac Overby Rained 2 Showers in evening Run in the yard Grubing in corn field Henry sick & doing not much claiborne Jointing Shinglings & Digging whole for Prize Stump Jerry gone to Mrs Panills & shields to see about Thrashing their wheat
20th July cloudy, Shrubing for corn Toping Tobacco this morning first we toped
21. Shrubing corn field for 1861 Henry & Claiborne planking Prize shelter & Rounding & Jointing shingles I went to Fannies & Kates Sal & Alice went with me.
22nd I went to Prayer meeting clear & Dry in morning — In the shortly after I got home It began to Thunder & very soon a cloud come up & Rained hard, Severe Lighting - Rained a fine shower 3 times, Doct Estes stayed all night
23rd Striping Tobacco finished in big barn & then went to Little barn Plowing up Turnip Patch sewing Turnips in Garden etc etc Bob not here to day. Brought Bitter from aspen Grove mare bot of Mrs Fitzgerald.
January 25, 1861 - February 1, 1861
1861 Janry 25. cloudy & likely for falling weather
" Janry 26th Rained & hailed last night & this mor =ning Turned cold & snowing & Hailing & about 8 Oclock in morning snowing hard. Finishing striping Tobacco what we have down this morning, & then Mr Chumney will cut me out a pr shoes, double for wet wheather, shelling corn making Brooms etc to day - dreadful weather all this year, & indeed wet all the fall Snowing fast about night & stoped about dark my old sow lost 3 pigs, awful weather, & Keeps snowing allmost every week, or raining, mended Dorans Shoe & Charles, to day, fixed spool frames
27th went to Strait Stone Prayer meeting only 3 there besides myself, Kelley L & Robt Yates –
28th Cutting & malling in new ground on Hill next to wheat field, I went to Plantation met Pal coming after me, his mama sick, sent Jordan after Doct Thompson A.W. she has something like flux, cold in her bowls & hope nothing serious he gave her a Blue Pill with some opium in it & recommended oil in a day or Two & eat lite, snow dont melt but little, very disagreeable weather
29th I went to Plantation Malissa only tolerable Cutting malling & get some Logs for granary
30. Getting Logs for Granary I staid at home Lila sick. Sent for Mrs Coleman to see her
31st Covering Kitchen to day all hands, sent to Mill got my bag for overseer his sent is ours standingTurn Little Henry Sick, Malissa better & nearly well Lila not much the matter with her
Feby 1st 1861. covering Kitchen got along badly yesterday, looks likely for falling weather this morning began to Rain about 12 Halled stack fodder from Peach Orchard Henry