Jeremiah White Graves Diary

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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This collection is open to research.

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Jeremiah White Graves Diary, Ms1990-033, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Graves, Jeremiah White (Pittsylvania County, Va.)
Abstract:
Jeremiah White Graves was a farmer in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The collection consists of a microfilm copy of Graves' extensive diary and a typescript manuscript of selected transcribed passages from that diary.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Jeremiah White Graves Diary, Ms1990-033, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of a microfilm copy of Jeremiah White Graves' extensive diary and a typescript manuscript of selected transcribed passages from that diary. In his diary, Graves refers to working his farm, the sale of enslaved Black people in the area, and his children's schooling. During the American Civil War years, Graves mentions the fighting and the war's end. After the war, he comments that Black people could vote while he could not.

Unpublished partial transcription of Graves' diary by Anna Kenney and Katie Elliott.

Biographical / historical:

Jeremiah White Graves was a farmer in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

There is a Jere. W. Graves (1801-1884) buried in the Brumfield Family Cemeterery in Renan, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Source: "Jeremiah White 'Jere' Graves" entry, Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141911139/jeremiah-white-graves, accessed January 6, 2023.

Acquisition information:
The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in July 1990.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Jeremiah White Graves Diary was completed prior to 2001. Additional description completed in January 2023.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard