August 1856 Sun 24 We went to meeting and then to Wm Jones to dinner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Mo 25 We got home at 12 oclock and in the evening I piddled around hunted squirrels and helped G Gatewood role a few logs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Tues 26 I piddled around did not work much ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- We 27 S W Allen and myself went to Smalls mill to get plank to make a wagon bed and a buggy bed and when we got back we dressed some of them; and I set up with James Richmonds child it is dead ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Thu 28 I went to get hands to dig the grave and over in Handcock to let the connections? know that it was dead ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Fri 29 We all went to the burying and funeral of James Richmonds child ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Sat 30 I helped John G Wilkinson thrash wheet a part of the day and then we moved the machine to Thomas Heads and set it ready for thrashing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- 1850 Census #165 William W Jones36 b. Va, Helena 34, Milton 12, Mary A 11, Clinton 8, WmW 4, James R 1 #209 James Douthitt,44,b.NC,Elizabeth 44, Davis A 23, Pleasant E 19, Nancy Ritchie 8, John Christian 6, Rignor Ballard 19 #222 Griffin Gatewood 29 Sadler, Martha A 26, Ann a 7, Vitula 4 # 301 James H Richmond 24, Rosa J (Husk), Charlotte E 1/2 # 474 Samuel W Allen 30,Maria 35, Mary E 3, David M 1 #485 Thomas B Head 24, Mary A 21, James A 2, Mary S 1, Emeline 6 # 490 John G Wilkerson 47,Eliza 44, Christe C 18,Amanda 16, James W 14, John I 12, Susan M 9,Robert N 8, Isaac T 5,Samuel M 3, Eliza A 7, Sanford 1