January 10, 1861 - January 16, 1861

Janry 10th Sent Jerry Smith to Chalk Level.
Mr Chumney gone to Plantation to make alse
coffin & see about her, my wife going to Mrs
Colemans to see Mattie who is sick we hear
Our folks are cutting & malling wood Henry
is Barking ribs this morning & then to cutting
wood still cloudy & like for Rain, I am going
to Mr Hunts place to sell Bed, bot by
allen, & he fail[e]d to comply with turns of sale
& then I want to go to aspen Grove to see about
burying alse this morning she was buried
Mr Chumney made coffin

11th Mrs Hargrave here last night & went home^{this morning}
Raising cider house to day clem spining

12th. Mr Chumney looking for white sow this
morning, cutting & malling & Halling wood to day
cleaning of [f] Plant Beds to Burn, Halled
up one Stack Oats yesterday
I am going to meeting to day

13. went to meeting House to meeting

14th Hired Fannie & Johnson Fannie to Fannie
W Fitzgerald for Valuals & clothes Johnson to
Joseph M Moses on same terms
all went from here yesterday evening
This morning Hailing raining & freezing
at night nearly still raining & freezing
Bob & Henry making Brooms & claiborne Little
Henry at work on Basket Smith picking
Cotton Clem spining overseer made [ing]
Blades & whitted saw - dolefull weather -

15 no better Rained all night & to day
Our Dining room is nearly wet all over
water standing fixed it to day shelled
Corn & striped Tobacco in prize Barn,
sent Jerry Smith|Smith]] to Mill,-

16th Rained nearly all night again, shelling &
this morning still cloudy & like for Rain, cleared
off