Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1870 Jany 22nd I went to shop got 1 Dicth Dutch Plow & singletree, no Colter Saml getting slabs for Mr Whitehead in morning in evening I found him & Wm cutting & Caroline & Keatts went to old place fixed agreements with Randol Sam & Charlotte Hodnette & Jorden Graves for 1870 weather cloudy & moderate Nannie has been sick all the week will take some medicine tonight

23rd Moderate day stayed at home Nannie

24th Hung up our meat this morning & fanned out Our wheat & divided it mine in Bbl or Hhd in ^Toll Corn & bbl. 1 Bbl my own some onions in it & ^Bags Hh my own make the smallest Hogs - & Box behind door in Granary is Richards, Mr Keatts Plowing with 2 Horses for Tobacco Sam & Caroline in new ground cloudy & moderate weather - could not find my Hogs sold Sam 15 lb Lard Butter Pot & all Pot to be taken ^& paid in cash Pot to be deducted Lard @ 21¢ per lb

25th Striping tobacco over next to Mr Keatts owens Barn. Rained nearly all night last night Lowry gone to Barn the striped in owens barn

26th Sam & Wyatt got Boards for Mr Whitehead nearly all this day, they cut a little while in evening Mr Keatts & Carolene cut nearly all day. - I went to Mill for Mr Keatts Carried ½ Bbl & ½ Bbl wheat for him I let him have I also carried 1 Bushel wheat for Mr Wyatt, & brot back from Mt Airy 1 Box & 4 flour Barrels Bot of Jacobs P. Graves 40¢ for flour bbls & 2/3 for Box making 77½ Cents owe to Jacob Beautifull weather found all my hogs but 2 one of which is my Boar Large size from moses Sow but they went off again

27 Sam & Wyatt Cutting in new ground & Caroline Mr Keatts Plowing 2 Horses in Lot for Tobacco cloudy & moderate weather Doron went to shop brot home 1 plow Hoe Dutch Colter lap ring Br[lost in margin] Knife & clevice[clevis] pen

1870 May 16 Plowed Potatoes Irish & Corn by Patch Plowed Nannie Patch Planted Cotton to day Broom Corn Watermelons Simblings & Cucumber Clear pretty weather hired Mary Smith to day Clabe Ditching in lot

17th I went to Mr Hunts place & shop Keatts coltering Sam Hilling just began to Clabe Corn back & finished Ditching Charles Cut Hay picked up & burning roots in new ground & fresh Nat will chop out our corn by Irish Potatoe Patch

18th Coltering new ground finished 1 way & begun Second Way. Charles & Nat getting roots all day off new ground began to Hill in fresh ground

19. at work in new ground coltering rooting etc I went to fix fence around mountain field for my cattle went to Mr Woodings & Lewis's

20th Turned 6 young Cattle in mountain field marked Millys calf that makes the 6th Jacob Cut sooks Calf this morning & marked it beautiful weather at this time & warm, Clabe & his wife & Lucinda here hilling to day & Nat has been there all day - this evening he is hilling with them thundering nearly ^day all Very Warm day. Rained Twice this evening ^{a very little}but

21st Beautiful growing morning tolerable clear & warm Clabe Hilling new ground Charles Coltered fresh ground yesterday Claborne did not Come to Hill Saturday to day Charles did not quite finish plowing fresh ground above Granary Sam replanting corn Keatts finished coltering new ground & laying off I went to Coltering in corn Doron plowed his watermelon Patch & my Potatos & Plowing in Corn all day throwing dirt from Corn

22 Sunday Beautiful day and very warm Very warm Growing weather to day -

upon the Shucks Snowing yet stoped snowing about 12 or 1 oclock Snow 3 or 4 inches Deep

Feby 6th Sam hauling wood in evening for himself & me some I expect

— 7th. Snow about 4 inches deep very cold tolerable clear & cold this morning

8th. Cutting in new ground all day & I went to Mr James Kelley - Nannie _{& Bro^t Joe with her}come home yesterday

9th Striping Tobacco in old prize Barn Millard W left & did know when _{to strip Richards Tobacco}he would return

10th. Hauled Straw this morning & 1 Stack fodder Cutting in new ground, to day & trying to finish snow nearly gone Did not get done Cutting in new ground I went to Mount Airy to day to get P. Pints

11th. I went to S S Meeting

12 Rained all night & Raining this morning

13. Cloudy this morning Cutting rail lumber On Out Side fence next to Mr Lewiss Martin Broke his axe to day Raining to night Joseph Richard son here Come home with Nannie last week I went to Mr Woodings to see Liza sick & then went to burning brush with Lewis

14th. We all Striped in old prize barn nearly done Striping all Sam has there Snow about 3 inches deep with hail Very Sloppy & disagreeable to day

15. Striped all we had in order & Went to Richards Barn & Striped a little thats Was down & in order = finished by 12 oclock 16th & then went to Cutting in new ground cleared off & weather moderate

17th Friday Nannie gone up John R Whiteheads Edd carried her Joe Our folks are Cutting Rail Timber in John's ^(field Rained & Hailed a little Dark night

18th Raining tremendous hard ever since about day Break this morning then cleared off

1840 June 10th My Wife Died with Consumption, Funeral Preached the 11th from 14th Chpt & 13 Verse Revelations by Elder G. Dickinson - On the 29th June 1840 My wifes Sister Susanna D Mills & her Husband Andrew L Mills came out to Pttsy^a but too late to see her sister, stayed 5 days & set out for Louisa her Fathers where they now live & have done ever since they were married -

=Very Wet Summer 1840 - & spring Wheat sorry oats good corn promising etc etc.

= On the 1st day of april 1842 JW Graves was taken with Rheumatism & did not ^get well till Harvest & indeed was not well then, but in the Harvest field on 25th June 1842 where they were cutting of wheat & on Saturday 25th had a grum =bling tooth^ache most all day at night my Jaw Prevented me & my wife from sleeping one wink next morning 26th I got Mr Neal to draw my tooth & I was then taken with a rising under my Jaw & on my throat which was near brot me near my grave & its now 26th day of July & I believe it will rise again. May God have mercy upon me & us, JW Grave_{26th July 1842}

Jeremiah White Graves son of Jacob Graves & Fanny his wife was Born the 8th day of August in the year of Our Lord 1801 —— = now is the time to serve the Lord the time to ensure the great Reward and whilst the lamp holds out to Burn The Vilest sinner may Return

How many pains [panes] of Glass 8 by 10 are there in a^Box 50 feet

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The 18th day of Novr 1840 it snowed all day we have Just finished Seeding wheat & getting on Shucking Corn began to strip Tobacco 19th — 1833 March JWGraves was Baptised by Bro John W Kelley pastor of said church

1844 May 18th My wife Nancy R Graves gave her experience to the ^{Baptist Church} church at Strait Stone & upon a profession of her Faith was Baptised by Ja^sT McL aughline. the Pastor of said church JW Graves