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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Pare 3 Sdern World Has ar-01d Woman , Ctrtrude Buskin. ' ' 95 my lst birthday -'Jfe Cra-ford, as she f apwn over a blue d,f dress, and told how SaJed to Webster Renville over 100 years tailt the first two-story t Webster and it set ide of the present county Webster was the ,0- y Jackson - iti.ey nrrr. ------ ft from us, - " . Lck and forth before a hrood fire; ner !";"' " , konogtli a Mark Ming i""" . trf that she wore peasant ry ntiilpr her chin. tana ncu - 'eDster, mj - ' upper leather and sole n sewea-uui. k Ola umeis . C made from the bark of and pine, ' saw pandpaw made the finest ;hips in this part of the with a loop to hang over of the saddle," chimed m iwford, a son of the 05- resident. the women .folks needed ipplies, the men folks Your FREE Book HERE! Itherwood and James Esso Station Idford Service Center D POTTS, Manager Phone 263-M Lake Junaluska Wl Ji S mm Sol DON'T LET CO TO THE DOGS! J !B I i I I I- 3-PAGI B0OX FREEi r"h fewer now It..: L. r raat every driver put , fint-rate coadition and loJ T P you with hi ffe f tnd W free 'ijftytip.ltahaw, yi In which yoa 5e th your Esso Dealer and lncfee So. s. Drive ; t $ on co. cf Finn; 7, IT bunched up' and went to Wahalla and Seneca, S. C, or Clayton, Ga., in covered wagon trains. They always took along enough feed for the horses and rations for the men to last them on the trip and camped out at night. The wagons had tar poles on them and if the wheels squeaked, they put tar, rendered from pine, on them. Not much money was needed on these trips as the men used the barter system and traded their apples, chickens and chestnuts for salt, coffee, su gar and thread for the looms. "Once my father, : whose name was George Clayton, went to Clayton, Ga. Because he had been on the road and was dirty, he went into a store there and asked for a cake of soap to wash Clayton. They thought he was throwin' off on the town and they were about to jump on him and beat him up," cnuckied jars. Crawford as her faded blue eyes smiled into mine. After most of their nine chil dren were born, Mrs. Crawford's father and mother moved from Webster to Addie, nine miles away. Jlere they raised hogs, sheep and cattle and farmed. Not far above them, on a farm, lived the Kev, W. M. R. Crawford, a Baptist preacher, with his wife and family and whose son Phillip Mrs. Crawford later married. "I was just a young girl fifteen years old, when the War Between the States began. Those were bad days," Mrs. Crawford said, as her eyes moistened with tears. "One day 'Preacner Crawford and his son. Phillin. started nut. tn cut some wood, not far from their bouse, when five Yankee scouts came up. Two grabbed 'Preacher' Crawford by his long-tailed frock coat and wrapped him around a small sapling. A big husky fellow jumped on Phillip who was just a young boy and not old enough to join the Confederate army. 'Preach er irawiord s wife heard the com motion and cickimr un a white oak splint that they used in making cnair bottoms, flew out of the house and lit into the Yankees who held her husband. They soon let go and nea aown trie road toward Webster Hardin's Esso Service On the Highway At Hazelwood HOW TO Lengthen The Life Of Your Car and : TOTarai S A V E Gasoline I ':iiH'")'t 1' 'mix r'm'i'.'fflj Gt Yours Today FREE BOOKLET 1 iHtnnnimnr Clayton Walker's Esso Station Depot Street STOP! Ask For Your Care Saves Wear Booklet Now! Dill Howell's Esso Service Station Blain Street rump ran into the house: eotd aown tne old Springfield musket and shot at them. One ball went through a scout's coat, for .Cole Hall, of beyond Webster, where the scouts spent the night, told them about it later. "A few days after that, the scouts came back through this section by another road. The Crawfords and several of their friends heard about it and cut them off where the Balsam Fish Hatcher, ies are now. Sam Monteith, a strap ping mountaineer, told Phillip to pick out the fellow that jumped on him. Phillip pointed to a big fellow by the name of Loudermilk. Monteith walked over to him and said, 'You fought a boy before, but now your going to fight a man.' They said that every blow Monteith gave Loudermilk brought blood. Then Monteith called Phillip over to him and said," Phillip when you say he's had enough, I'll let him up." When Loudermilk had had a good beating Phillip said, 'That'll do.' And before leaving, Louder milk said that he had learned his lesson and wouldn't jump on a boy again," Mrs. Crawford related. "The Yankess ' were bad about takin horses. One time, Pink, a faithful slave, of 'Preacher' Craw ford,, scared a Yankee off who wanted to exchange his lean horse for a good one in the Crawford stable, by threatening him with an axe," said Mrs. Crawford. "My mother's brother, Thad Bryson, was a colonel in the Confederate army," continued Mrs. Crawford, proudly. After the war was over Mrs. Crawford married 'Preacher' Craw ford's Son Phillip, May 14, 1865. He had fought in the Confederate army the last two years of the war under Colonel William Thom&s. He Five Generations More Than 125 Visit Plant Of The Mountaineer's During "Open House" j MARRIAGES E. C. Smart, of Norfolk, Va., to Evelean Peek, of Mars Hill. Roger Walker, of Hazelwood, to Love Branner Shackford, of Rock Hill, S. C. Genatus Robertson Easley, of Greenville, S. C, to Mary Ash worth Barber, of Waynesville. Don Putman to Alice Roberta Messer, both of Clyde. - In the picture, seated m a chair, is Mrs. Crawford, who is hold ine her great great granddaughter. Peggy Joe Crawford, on her lap Back row, reading from left to right is Mrs. Crawford's great grand son, Allen Crawford, next, and in the middle of the back row is her son, G. C. Crawford, and lastly her grandson, Phillip Crawford. er, played the fiddle." Out of a family of five boys and four girls only Mrs. Crawford and a younger sister, Mrs. Sarah Mur- ray, are still living, ui ner lour- teen children only five are living, all within a few miles of Mn. Crawford. They are; Mrs, Geo. Smathers, Mrs. Rufe Jones, Wil liam Crawford and G. C. Crawford, deacon in the Mount Pleasant' was too young to enter the army j Baptist church. A daughter, Addie sooner. 'Preacher' Crawford gave Crawford and a great grandson them his two-storyJog home and Anen Crawford and his family built a smaller one for himself and ijVe with Mrs. Crawford who con family below them. Here Mrs. tinue8 to live at the mouth of Crawford and her husband, whom Woodfin creek where she and her she lost in 1888, raised a family of fourteen children. Near them was a log cabin that served as school and church. It was always referred to as the "Old Meetin' House Place' The seats were j logs with four peg legs to hold them up and there were no backs. Many a night Mrs. Crawford "stomped the treadle" until mid night making homespun for her growing family by the light of a home made tallow candle or a rich pine knot splinter which she stuck in a mud-chinked chimney. "A pine knot Splinter was just as good as a candle and it would burn a heap longer than you thought it would," explained Mrs. Crawford. "My husband .was an awful bear hunter in those days and our six foot fire-place always had bear meat hanging in front of it on sticks. The smoke from the hick, pry logs and the steam from the boiling kettles, cured the meat per fectly in the winter time" Mrs. Crawford is a born story teller. One of her grandsons, John nie Jones, said, "My folks didn't have much trouble keepin' me away from Grandmaw's 'cause she kept men scared up with her 'hant' tales. And I believed them 'till I was a big boy." Luther Foster was another boy to fall under her spell of story telling and was afraid to go home in the dark after listening to one of "Granny" Crawford's bear or "hant" tales. They say that Mrs. Crawford couldn't be beat when it came to dancing and that her husband was the best fiddler in these parts. I asked her if she could dance the "Ocean Wave." Immediately she became interested. "What's that?" she asked. I replied, "Oh you go under each other's arms like this and swing your partner--"but before I could finish she said: "Then you lock arms like this and swing your partner." She grabbed my arm and locked her's in mine. "The Lord bless my soul, I've danced it many a time while Wash, a black man, belonging to my fath ing on May 14, 1865. The log house has been torn down and a neat clapboard cottage erected in it place. The Rev. Oscar J. Beck, whose birthday, falls on the same date as Mrs. Crawford's, said that he remembered seeing Mrs. Crawford hoeing in the garden three sum' mers ago. And untu a year ago Mrs. Crawford was busy knitting quilts. "I don't reckon I'll ever make any more," she said while I looked at her patient, painstaking work. She never had to wear glasses and all of her faculties were unim pared until a little over a year ago. Now her hearing and eye sight are failing and at night she has to be lifted into bed. Mrs. Crawford never went any farther from home than Sylva and Way nesville in all her 95 years and not until several years ago did she go to Sylva to see Lee Crawford, a grandson. While there shesaw electric lights for the first time. Mrs. Crawford has 30 grand children and 35 great great grand children, History, reveals an interesting sidelight on the Crawford clan. Dr. Archibald Henderson has prov en in his sketches of Andrew Jack son that Jackson was born on the plantation of John and Robert Crawford. And the sons of John headed westward across the Blue Ridge and settled in what is now Haywood and Jackson counties. The roots of the Crawford clan go back to Scotland and relused to bow the knee to English rule. Thence they fled to America where they were known as "Scotch-Irish," but they are not Irish at all; they were pure Scotch, and a large number settled in the mountains of this state. These people brought the true Protestant religion to these shores; and they were the first in the race for liberty which they val ued above life. They had deep convictions and positive natures and they were fearless in vindicating their principles. They were the first, on May 20, 1775, at Mecklen burg, N. C, to make the most dar ing declaration of independence from England.) The so-called "Scot-Irish" are a Wonderful and magnificient race and Adelaide Crawford and other members of the Crawford clan can be proud of their heritage. More than 125 people visited the plant of The Mountaineer dur ing National Newspaper Week and saw how a "newspaper is made". The visitors were shown every phase of the work required to get out a newspaper, and also some of the equipment in the commercial printing department, including the automatic press which prints 60 pieces a minute, picking up the paper, printing it, then counting and drying without an operator. The linotype machines proved to be the "great mystery" to the group, while many spent consider able time watching the large news paper press print the paper. Several were of the opinion that the machine that folded the papers and trimmed the edges was the smoothest running piece of ma chinery in the plant, while others fascinated with the stero- typing. Each visitor was given a memo randum book with their name printed in gold on the front cover. Each visitor saw their name set in type on one of the linotype ma chines. Each one was also given a letter opener. Groups of eight or ten were taken through the plant, and every step of newspaper production ex plained in detail. BEE CAUSES NEAR PANIC INDIANOLA, Miss. Curbstone sitters fled in panic when they saw an automobile approaching them, apparently out of control. The car careened off the corner build ing but pretty soon returned, The pretty driver explained that a bee IT .. . a Lindbergh accuses RoosevelU had gotten into her blouse ana British, Jews of agitating war. stung her. Have your battery charged in your car while U-Wait by our General Electric Fast Charger BALENTINE'S Shell Station Main Street EXECUTRIX NOTICE TTavinc Qualified as executrix of the estate of Anderson Sanford, deceased, late of Haywood County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned at Waynesville, North Carolina, on or hefor the 8th dav of October. 1942. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payments. This the 8th day oi uctoDer, 1941., MRS. MANDY SANFORD, Fiecntrix of the Estate of An derson Sanford, deceased. No. 1116 Oct. 9-16-23-30-Nov. 6-13. - EXECUTRIX NOTICE Wavincr fliialifieH as Executrix of tho eatjite of O. T. Alexander, de ceased,' late of Haywood County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Way nesville, North Carolina, on or be fnr the it dav of October. 1942. pr this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. . This the 1st day oi uct., lim. (Mrs) Anna Katherine Alexander, Executrix of the Estate of O. T. llllllkv-.-. . C-1 LJcJJl 6 OR 8 .' Vfffliaiw1"11 '""ifiluv . T g7Jr...l.rr- O J . TN THESE UNUSUAL TIMES we invite you to inspect an unusual new car new in its beauty, its comfort, its choice of two fine 90 horsepower engines, 6 cylinders or 8. See it and you sense at once that here is new style that will stay good for years. On a lower, wider chassis, we have designed new long, low, wide and modern lines. Interior treatment is entirely fresh, distinctive, pleasing. The beauty of this Ford will more than bold its own in any company. Inside, the car is wide across the seats, generous in knee-room, leg-room, elbow-room. On the road this year you find the "new Ford ride" still further advanced in its softness, quiet ness, steadiness and all-round comfort. At the wheel, you will find driving easier than ever; Steering, gear-shifting, action of the big and sure hydraulic brakes have all been made smoother and easier. In quality, the car is sound to the last detail. Defense requirements have all been met without a single reduction in the basic and lasting good ness of the Ford mechanically. Some new materials have replaced old ones, usually at a greater ct to us, but i every case the new is equal to or be , than the old. If your family needs a new car, go see and drive this Ford. For what it is today and or what it will he through the years ahead, we believe bat yon will find in it more and better transportation or your money than you have ever found before. NOW ON DISPLAY ABEL'S D. A. RIDDLE, GARAGE Sales Manager Alexander, deceased. Phone 52 Asheville Road No. 115 Oct. 9-16-23-30-Nov. 6-13. ...
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