THE OLD FARM

                    
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THE OLD FARM, NEAR EVANT

Mrs. Williams was a daughter of old Squire Murphree, and she was reared on a farm which our family many years later owned. She said they first lived in a log house east of the creek on the Murphree place, and later built a log house further west, and the present house was built still further west. Mrs. Williams said thy had an Irishman named Pat Murphy staying there and laying the rock fence and that he was grumpy and she didn’t like him. She poured water into the sunken hide of the old chair on which the Irishman sat at the dinner table to taunt him. )  The old fence was mostly crumbled when we had the place. At one time old Squire Simpson Loyd owned the place, and may have homesteaded it, but left on account of the Indians. The man who was shot and killed with arrows by Indians on a Christmas Eve just south of town lived on this place at the time.

 

Mrs. Williams was a daughter of old Squire Murphree, and she was reared on a farm which our family many years later owned. She said they first lived in a log house east of the creek on the Murphree place, and later built a log house further west, and the present house was built still further west. Mrs. Williams said thy had an Irishman named Pat Murphy staying there and laying the rock fence and that he was grumpy and she didn’t like him. She poured water into the sunken hide of the old chair on which the Irishman sat at the dinner table to taunt him. (The old fence was mostly crumbled when we had the place. At one time old Squire Simpson Loyd owned the place, and may have homesteaded it, but left on account of the Indians. The man who was shot and killed with arrows by Indians on a Christmas Eve just south of town lived on this place at the time.

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 

 
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