Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845 April 30th Prizing good Tobacco - Cloudy & like for rain, but dry & Hot Had no rain to Do much good fine middle March - Hilling on Branch

May 1st this morning look a little like rain --Planted one square Greens this morning Small Shower of Rain at night

21 Planted out our Garden in Greens,Plowing up Cotton Patch Rain almost gone dry & cool this day after shower last night; Finished Hilling little new ground on branch

3 Planted cotton & Irish Potatoes

4 Sunday Rained at night. Went to association, Planted Water Mellons, Potatoe Pumpkin etc on 4th Inst

5 replanting Corn on Mountain Manured Plant Beds, Rained, Borrowed 5 3/4 lb bag & all of Sugar of Mrs Ephraim Lewis this day

6th Still cloudy & Raining this morning prizing Tobacco, & Fed Shoemaking

7 Started Lugs & short Tobacco to Lynchg by Mr Montgomery, began to Plow on mountain field Hilling second years ground

1845 May 8^th Cleared of[f] very cool & Windy - Began to Plow corn at House & Mountain field. Hilling second year ground -

9th Replanting corn at Stony Point, Finished Plowing mountain field first time today. Morning & nights very cool - 9 Finished replanting corn Planted Peas in new ground every Saturday in may

10 Began to Hill again. Planted out Tomatoe Screan, Finished prizing Tobacco run Coulter next to cotton

13 Planted little new ground Tobacco Cloudy & Rainy this day

15 Rainy day we planted nearly all our new, Turned off very cool Plowing corn at Stony Point

16 Very cool Hilling Second years Ground & Plowing corn

17 Plowing at Stony point Finished Hilling Second years ground, Thinning corn here at home

19 began to Weed Corn & Plowing over corn Second time, Mr Moons Negroes condemned to be hanged Worked Out Garden Plowed S. Potatoes & Harrowed Cotton, Returned from Lynchg to Sell Tobacco. Tuesday 20th May 1845

1845 August 2nd - Another shower Rain We are pulling up fence where the ^windwind Blew down last night, & toping Tobacco & Expect to Sew Turnip Patch this evening - put up steps at chamber doder^door this Branch Camp branch So called as high as I ever saw it in my life

3 good showers Rain about here today

4. Sun shng shining grubing & cutting on Branch, Halling manure to turnip Patch & Rails for Hog Pen

6th Yesterday Rained moderate and we Rep =lanted the Lot at Lilas House & the granary Lot & began to Hill up Lots & new ground - Fed shoemaking Henry cutting on branch alse breaking flax Phil gone to shop

9th. Hilling up new ground Tobacco Plowing Greens in Garden

18th. The weather has generally been seasonable since the 1st August. Working Out Garden this morning. Went to Lynchburg 13th & 14 to get Paints to Pain[t] House,-

21. Rains every night or day & sometimes both machine got out Mrs. Hunts, wheat woodings machine Wrote to Mr Taylor Painter to come the 15th & do our work.

1846 May 9th Weather warm & fine about this time, Finished fencing about 12 Bushing wheat & oats -

10th Showers this day & turned cool in evening

11th began to Replant & Plow corn this day Replanted all the side of the the Branch next to Tobacco Houses & part of the side & Plowed all drill corn nearly

12 Hilling & Coltering in second

13 done collering & laying off second yrs^ground gone to mill this morning lent Wm Neale 2 mugs of Coffee this morning my wife Which she has to clean her teeth began to Cross Coltering on Branch

14 Finished hilling second years ground Plowing corn - 15th Drawing Plants

15 & Planting Yobacco this day ^{in new ground} Raining & we are Planting Tobacco

16 Finished Planting new ground Tobacco Thining corn this morning Phil gone to Shop & mill

17 Meeting day at S. S. M H. a good day

18 Cloudy Plowing corn & Replanting corn & hilling on Branch 19 My waggon start to Lynchg 20th myself Mrs Clements & John starts this morning sold our Tobacco for Little or nothing 21st hilling on Branch

1846 July 30 Rained quite hard last night beeting apples - 30 Succoring Tobacco & worming began to Hill up lots for the last time Sewed Turnip Patch & also in lot by Tobacco House

31st Getting up apples this day –

August 1st Plowing & finishing hilling up Lot by prize Barn & Beeting apples this

2nd Sunday & cloudy but no rain

3rd cloudy this morning Toping worming & Succoring Tobacco this morning Sent Henry Clay to Mrs Hunt to go Lynchg alse Drying apples this morning —

4th Getting up apples to Beet to day Fair & beautiful weather

5 Working Tobacco Lots by & above Granary

6 Beeting apples & finishing lots

7 Plowing & Hilling up Branch Tobacco

8 Went after Mr JD & CA Hunts Still & working as Friday & done on Branch yet

9th Weather dry & Hot corn begins to suffer a little for Rain —

10 Finishing hilling up Tobacco on branch Henry gone back to Mr Hunts after still worm & tub etc little shower of rain at Mrs Hunts yesterday a little here last night after we got home weather dry & very warm, began to dry peaches this morning

11 Worming & succoring tobacco

12 Stilling most of this week

13 Went to see Capt Coleman & he Died about 9 or 10 Oclock in morning

14 he was Buried this day our hands at work On Road Malissas child a Girl Born on the 12 Inst Inst at night—