A double tree is a wooden crossbar on a wagon, carriage, or plow that holds two single trees to which a team of horses, mules, or oxen are hitched for drawing purposes.

One cold, snowy, winter's day as the Edgemon family sat gathered about the fireplace, John Allen Edgmon, Huse's son said, "Pa, did you know there is a double tree up on the hill behind the house?"

Huse got full instructions as to where the double tree could be found, and a little later pulled on a pair of heavy brogan shoes, and went out into the bracing cold. He searched the hillock high and low but could find no double tree.

Entering the warmth of the living room again he asked John for more instructions. John said, "Did you not see the two oak trees growing from one stump up on the hill. They must be forty feet tall!"

Poor Huse was continually pestered to near distraction by his middle son, John. So much so that he often made John work in an area distant from himself and the other farm hands.

Submitted by J W Henson

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