July 16, 1845 - August 1, 1845

the Lord to bless with spiritual &
temporal blessings. Yesterday it was at
Strait Stone meeting house etc etc etc

28th. Still very dry & Cool. Streams all
drying up Camp branch along the road
by Mrs Smith dry & allmost dusty - a little
water above in a whole — — —
John McHany Died last July 1845.
this year year is another sort worse
than 1838 because the Draught is so
much more extensive, & no oats hardly
made & the most remarkable year
ever Known its now July & the ground
has not been really wet since 1st
March last — 1845 1845

30 Some showers around us but none here -
wind has been from NW more or less
for a week or 10 days & very drying
Corn all vegetables etc drying, Serious times,
Treading out wheat and Grubing on branch -
never was so bad a prospect for corn -
it has now sold for five Dolls pb^l
Poeple very sickly about Leesville &
in charlotte. Colley Bradley Died last July

aug. 1st. Rained & Hailed about 4 Oclock
in the evening a little shower about
12 Oclock last night or Rather this
morning about 2 Oclock - the Hardest Rain
I ever heard fall but one, 1836.