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T1 M E O M >AY hand; r- Mrs. Laxton Mauney By: _ Dear Boys; I’ve been elected for a change of program. The "Hoover Rail" editors are tired of my "corn at random" and asked me to shed a little light on some of the prominent families of Cleveland County, As most of you know. I'm not exactly from this "neck of the woods,"so the information I have, I got from several different persons ~ mainly Horace (Grand-pa) Mauney. This month I‘ve chosen the Lattimore family and before you hear from me again, they may "chews" me. As I understand, the Lattimores are of English descent. I hear that two of ’em came from England "way back v/hen one settled up above what is now Polkville, The other settled in Rutherford County, and later came to Cleveland Llills or Lavmdale and this clan is "our Lattimores." Their character istics; free hearted, hospitable, hot tempered, honest, fun-loving, "stutterish," industrious, very "stick-togetherish" and prankish, and I do mean prankish by some jf the yarns I’ve heard about the "old timers," The very first Lattimore that I could hear of was one who fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain and came out with a bullet in him, which he let "stay put" and ■lived to be an old man and was buried in old Lattimore cemetery up above Polkville, Jesse, Tom, Jim "Tangier," Frank, Johnnie and Bdley all fought in the Civil vVar — made good' soldiers and came back safely, Jesse v;as later working in a cotton gin at Polkville, fell off the platform and "vns 'killed. - • One grand old fellow, by v;hat I’ve heard v/as Uncle Joe Lattimore. He married Louisia Robison of Cav/tav;ba County and they had the following children; Jesse (as I’ve mentioned) John Bynum, Julious, Dr, Joe Lane, William, Sam, George, Pink and Caroline, During the Civil War Uncle^ J-oe filled a covered wagon with corn, wheat and other provisions and drove it to a desolate spot and left it, took his team back home and said,"How when the Yanlcecs tal:e everything else wo have. I’ll have bread for my family and neighbors." One night six Yankee soldiers came to his house and wanted something to cat. Aunt Louisa prepared them a nice meal and after stuffing themselves, they asked what the charges were. Undo Joe said, "Not one cent. All I charge is that if any of our boys come to your country, and kill your boys, destroy your property, then ask for something to eat, food them." GoshI how’s that for "Heaping coals of fire?" Bet those Yankees had a tech of indigestion that night, Daniel,"Deef Dan,"(he was called because he was so hard of hearing) married Polly Ann London. Their children were; Jethers, Sam and Frank. Nov/ this bunch of boys, with the. aid of Horace Mauney, were the"pain of the neighborhood" because of the'stunts they played. Once Mauney was spending the night with Jethers. These boys went to bed early and after "Deef Dan" and the rest were sound asleep,'they sneaked out the vdndow, went to a neighbor’s barn and throw all his plow lines, saddles and harness upon the roof, then went out in the field and overturned his little "two-by- four house." Tho next morning ■■^11 were at the breakfast table when this neighbor strode up wi'th blood in his eyes. "Deef Dan" told him to "cam do;vn and get home. My boys and little Horace Mauney went to bed before I did and got up ten minutes ago. 1 want you to know they don’t do all the messin’ that’s done around hero." Bet they began sprouting little wings right then. Those boys cbiild think of so many unique pranks to play when they got together, that the Mauney’s didn’t v/ant Horace to "keep company" with the Lattimore boys, c^jid the Lattimore parents didn’t want their boys to associate with Horace Mauney, Well, they used to meet and tell each other just what had been said at home concerning their pal, then thoy would proceed to take a big "chav;" of tobacco and see. which could speel off the big^'est "cuss words" and (Continued on next page)
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