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Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Original 2001 web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Laura Katz Smith, Archivist, and LM Rozema, Archivist
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This collection is open to research.
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.
The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in July 1990.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Jeremiah White Graves Diary was completed prior to 2001. Additional description completed in January 2023.
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.
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.
See the Jeremiah W. Graves Collection, Ms2012-084 , also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives, and the Jeremiah White Graves Papers, 1822-1878, Accession #5047 , Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
The guide to the Jeremiah White Graves Diary by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).
This collection is likely a copy of original materials in the Jeremiah White Graves Papers, 1822-1878, Accession #5047 , Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Unpublished partial transcription of Graves' diary by Anna Kenney and Katie Elliott.