Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1860 Sept 19 Mrs Hunt come from CH this evening gone about 9 days – Killed Lamb Turkey etc prizing Tobacco Halled some from barn on road - wormed & succor’d in evening -

20, Jacob & his wife & Company came here yesterday^{to day married 19th Sept 1860}stayed all night here yet he is - here yet Jacob _{to Mary James Monroe} married

21 him & his wife here balance all gone

22nd Cutting Tobacco over next to Cap^t Whiteheads Stacked 2 stacks Blade fodder prizing Tobacco Clems & Arch child a Girl Born to day - Sent for Mrs Stanly & p^d her fine weather now

23rd went to meeting at Strait Stone

24. Pulling fodder & finished cutting Tops stilling Halled Tobacco to prize etc warm weather —

25. Stilling cutting Tops prizing Tobacco etc

26. Stilling went to plantation riving boards for Barn wormed & succored Tobacco & tied up Tops & finished this evening

27th Halling up Tobacco & Housing & worming & succoring over putting in Barn on Road cloudy & like for rain Did rain 2 showers, Riving Boards for for Barn, my cattle sick at aspen Grove lost my red Bull & a cow with young calf sick one milch cow sick here,

28. Firing House Tobacco working on Barn, worming & succoring Tobacco one of our Milch cows Died & one at aspen Grove overseer milked Died also

1861 april 30th Put up foundation of Carriage House Bob & overseer finished halling out manure Henry & Harry Bedding Corn Land on branch clem Hilling cool weather at this time & dry

May 1st Marked Calves Beding for Corn on branch Fencing next to Vaughans McHaneys & on Road & clem Hilling — cool morning began to fence this morning on Creek & they wont finish neither will they finish fixing ground for Corn, – windy & cool to day

2nd Mr Blanks came this morning & went to aspen Grove to Spay Shoats 26 in all then Came here 9 here to alter & mark 1 he said was too small to spay marked it & Turn it out to be done here after went from here to Mr Hunts place for the same purpose, overseer went to Mill to day with waggon carried 8 Bushels wheat for me & 1 Turn Corn to Richard Whitehead|Whiteheads]] 1½ Bushel wheat for Henry & 5 Bushels wheat for himself Carried the wheat to Faris Mill for flour, last night Patrolling our company – Our poeple are fencing on Creek to day & finished etc etc clem spining etc very cool windy weather & yesterday & day before tremendous winds etc dry & cold Marked 3 Calves here and at aspen Grove, 3rd May Began to Plant Corn on Creek this morning, & finished or trying to finished bed=ding & listing. Cow, Clarys younger Heifer Clary had a calf yesterday –bro^t Two 2 Turns meal yesterday home –

4th Finishing Planting Corn on Low grounds Plowing in fresh ground - Sent to mill for Henry Hester & Esau for Jerry to day I went to Chalk Level to day– [faded] meeting at Hunts place FW & Mary James here

1861 June 7th Halled up stack Oats this morning Bob replanted Cotton at work on yard. Plowing & weeding ^[?] Corn on Creek cloudy & likely for Rain yet

8th Began to Prize Lugs here cleaned out stables Chumney & claiborne in shop & could not pint colters, Henry & Smith Cutting Oak wood in woods Bob [parting] yard, & nearly done, I went to meeting at strait stone, very hard rain in evening, I stoped at Mr Lewis

9th went to meeting at SS. to day all of us FW Kate Moses & Mary James here I went too, Cap^t Mustain of Volunteers will start to war this week its expected

10th. We are cutting off our second years Land Hills. Plowing Corn & I sent Henry down to aspen Grove this morning to Shear our sheep to day, done it – Sheared 38 old Sheep Marked 10 Ewe Lambs & have 20 Ram Lambs to Eat or Sell

11th Plowing Corn & weeding down Tobacco on road, Mr Chumney & 1 hand weather boarding Carriage House to day, went to Prayer meeting at Mrs Colemans —— I carried Fillmore to Chalk Level & got Isaac to cut the Hooks out of his Eyes he is getting better I think

12th went to Mrs Colemans all of us to Prayer meeting at 3 Oclock in evening finishing Carriage House weather boarding it weeding down tobacco & Plowing corn weeding down tobacco Plowing Corn Mr Chumney & Bob making & Hanging Carriage House Doors to day – Did not get done the Doors quite [faded] it Beded up our Lot by Lot overseers to it Finished weeding Tobacco on road this [faded]