May 1856 Sun 11 I staid at home all day ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Mon 12 We cleaned up ground cut logs and briers Thomas Head broak up the orchard for me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Tu 13 I went to Yelvington to get my horse shod and some other work done and after I got back I roled a few logs and laid off a little cornground in the orchard William broke ground for me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- We 14 I went to Archibald Smeathers to a house moving and raising another house in his place ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Th 15 A Smeathers finished his house and then I finished laying off the orchard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Fri 16 I went to Hawesville with a load of eggs the ground is too wet to work ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Sat 17 We stripped tobacco for J H Hodgkins and after dinner William Winkler helped me and S W Allen helped me apart of the evening ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- in 1860 census # 491 A W Smithers age 29 # 603 Hoskins, Jno H 39 (Hodskins in 1850) # 645 Davis Douthett 33 # 698 Head, Thos B 35