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