Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

14th Sunday Raining & a sleet this morning, Kitty better weather cold & real winter ever since 1st Dec 1845

15. Raining this morning & cant do any thing out striping Tobacco very ^wet about 9 oclock it commenced snowing & at 2 in the evening continues to snow. snow 1/2 shoe Deep, pleasant Day since Decr. came in yet. Snow 7 or 8 Inches Deep

16th Fair & cold snow melted but little

17th Cloudy & like for Rain cutting & Halling fire wood this day ——

18th Raining & we are striping Tobacco snow melted but litte yet. about 1/2 done grubbing new ground.

19 Cold & windy, real winter weather cutting fire wood in new ground

20 this day given Bond to Wm Dews Admr of Mary Stone Decs^d Jno S Lewis Scty for $31.50 for six Bbls corn — I am also Scty. for Mr. J.S. Lewis for $73.50 to same for 14 Bbls corn bot by him at said sale ———— this day Saturday Strait S. meeting is a tremendous cold day & at night the wind blows & is as cold as I most ever saw & there has not been as yet a pleasant day in this month — went to meeting & pd $5. to J T. McL no meeting on acc^t weather Preacher not there

1846 ¹⁸Saturday 1⁷8th Meeting at Str. Stone M.H. Fenced in plant Bed on mountain this morning went to cutting & cleaning out stables & Halled leaves This day Halled up stack oats & Hay

18th Fair cold winter days

20th Another Fair cold day — cutting in new ground & Halling^wood Bro. Lovelace here my wife ^{& girls} gone to Mrs H

19 Tolerable fair & cold cutting in new ground & Halling wood

20 Cutting in new ground between 10 & 11 Oclock it commencing snowing quite cold — Dreadful cold night Just about night it rained Hailed & freeze

21 Snow Hail etc about 4 Inches Deep severe weather, striping Tobacco

22 Fair & cold striping Tobacco Snow between 4 & 5 Inches Ice on Tops We have 7 Lambs lost 2 at Stony point

23 Fair & weather tolerable, we are striping Tobacco in Middle Barn Trying to finish that House this night

24 We cutting in new ground not quite done, weather moderating

25th Snow melting very much to day

1846 March 1st. Prayer meeting day at Strait Stone. M. H.- I did not go The Trees this day hanging with Icicles ^{clear & cloudy} a Dreadful day - real winter, In the evening it commenced Hailing, & continues on - in the night lost 3 Lambs, such a continuation of cold freezing I never saw in my life, wind blows from the East —

March 2 Monday. Hailed & the wind blew hard all night one of the most Disagreeable nights I ever saw or felt - this morning it stoped hailing & commenced snowing & the largest flakes of Snow ever seen by me, we are doing but little to day Rained & freezed Saturday Sunday & night Hailed Monday still snowing & the wind whistling Dreadful on stock of every description 1846 Real Hail & snow storm, snow & Hail where its drifting Two or 3 feet Deep weather stop falling about 12 oclock we have not seen the sun for about 4 days, wind blows very hard & cold from N. E. trees yet hanging with Icicles, not any thing done in our Garden

3rd March. Weather cleared off & Hail & snow melting smartly pretty morning over head under foot very bad —— making Baskets shelling corn spinning etc.

4 March Still winter weather finishing Baskets & then we are going to clean out stables, going to mill shucking corn

1846 April 12th The weather is moderate & showery, very backward with our work Planted Sweet Potatoes & Garden Peas on the 9th which was last Thursday — —

13th Easter Monday - weather cool

14th Plowing for corn & coltering on Branch for a start, Hilling in new ground.

15 Trying to get done Plowing for corn to day — coltering on Branch. Scattering manure in Cotton Patch, Hilling for Irish Potatoes about this time my wild Hogs come up every morning — Planted Irish potatoes by the granary. finished Plowing this ^{for corn}evening

16th Beded Cotton Patch, covered Potatoe Patch by the Spring with leaves & straw - began to Plant Corn on right side of Path going down to little barn about 10 Oclock to day also snaps & Simblings - Planted 6 Hills Simblings in Potatoe Patch at Granary, Jane taken sick after dinner & about 4 Oclock the 17th her child born - a girl

17th Still planting Corn & laying off to Plant night & left in the field below Henry House — — —

18 Planting corn on left side Path in Big field — fine weather

19 Sunday meeting at S.S. fine day -

20. Planting by Turnip Patch

21 Finished on big side next to barn

1846 May 3rd We went to S. S. M. H. to Mr. J. McH anys & Wm Lovelaces funeral Preached by by Bro Hubbard & Mr McLaughlin Weather fine & good growing weather

4 Coltering on Branch, Hilling in new ground -

5. Coltering on Branch with steers Henry & Andrew Crews Coltering in little second years ground above Granary & in second years land at new ground

6th Finished Hilling new ground 12 Oclock to day 2 Colters on Branch & 1 in second years ground 7th Hilling above granary

7th Began yesterday at 12. Henry finish ing Coltering one way on way^Branchby 12 today Fed Halling out manure to day — Phil Hilling, went to mill to day —

8 Fed Halling out manure Henry & Phil Coltering & laying off second yrs land Balance Hilling of it An Elegant Rain this evening Set out our garden in Greens before the Rain to day —

9th Fencing & Picking mountain Plant Beds & made a beginning to Plant Tobacco this morning in new ground Fly & chintz in wheat, which bid fair for a crop till lately corn sellling at from $3 1/2 to $5.