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"The Marshall Rieves home was the old Bush home. Mitchell settled up at the bridge where Thompson now lives. The McNiece and Shelton farms were settled by Jimmie and Tommy Lann. The Jess Leech home was built by William and Stanley Stegall. Acros the road in front was the big decaying home once owned by Pierce Davis. On the rocky hillside the old house is still standing that was built by a Mr Tucker whose wife was a Davison and an aunt of the late E D Gilmore. I don't have a history of them. Their little boy was so mean that all bad children were called "Bud Tucker".
Before I could remember, the Rev John Burdine moved from his home in Lee County to the old house on the branch on the present Brook's farm where he spent the balance of his life. Here was where Casey Wax's parents were married. The Wesley Bowens owned the William Johnson and Thomas Lee Cowley places.
The Jones owned from Mrs Martha Jane Cowley's home to the Gene and Holsten Elliot home in Itawamba. They built the house near the family cemetery and Uncle Marshall Jones taught school until he died in manhood. A part of what was once a fine old home is still standing back of Mr Albert Stevenson. Up at the pottery place (Suggs) this all belonged to Madison McKiney. The Robbie Pierce place was settled by James G McKiney. The Madison McKiney place was bought by the Rev Mr Springfield who built the old long church just a little beyond the pottery. The McKineys went west in my dad's childhood. One of the families were all killed in an Indian massacre. In her widowhood, my mother taught school there.
Now back to the Jones family. There were eight of the brothers: Ira, Benjamin, Christopher, Westley, Robert, Marshall, Oliver, and Stephen. Only one east of the Mississippi River bears the Jones name, Buford of Memphis. The Ben Harmans are the descendants of Benjamin Jones.
I was born in 1868 in the Bluff Creek home of William Stegall. The old road ran south of the Elliot place and split the farm into two big fields. A lane faced our home. Before the War, droves of human beings were driven down this road like cattle and sold for from $500 to $1500 apiece. I am glad I never witnessed anything so pitiful and wicked. Also great droves of fat hogs were driven down and sold for 3 cents per pound. In my time there were droves of beautiful horses that were driven out of Tennessee and Kentucky. I will have to describe one wonderful horse my father traded for out of a drove. He was only 3 years old but had been badly cared for. With good care he developed into the finest and biggest horse the country had ever had. He wa a bright bay in color, white face and legs, black curly mane and tail, and pale blue eyes and was gentle as could be. My mother rode him wehre she wanted to go. People would ask if she wasn't afraid of that big blind horse; he was glass-eyed.
Our next sight was the long trains of cotton wagons out of Itawamba and North Alabama on the way to Aberdeen, the nearest cotton market. There was a big camp ground at the ford on Bluff Creek and it was a lovely place. The most unusual traveler was a man in a wagon drawn by a milk cow and an old jenny. He was going somewhere in style.
The next attraction was watching the linemen build the telegraph line from Aberdeen eastward. It did not stand long till it was taken down.
Mr Hardee ran a peddler wagon. His load was cedar buckets and churns; cedar vessels that I am sure no one ever heard of. They were called kelers and piggins. The kelers were small shallow tubs, the peggins were small buckets with one stave extending up into a fancy trimmed handle. They were all bound with bright brass hoops. The kelers were used for foot tubs. Daddy's little half-sisters and I used the piggins while we were learning to milk the cows. I suppose the pioneers brought in the domestic animals from the eastern states.
Dr John Tubb had moved into an old house on the east side of his farm near the old log church. This is the Gilbert Johnson place. His wife was the widow of Dr McCoy, who had died in the army. Her sons were Coleman and John McCoy. In the doctor's office was a skelton which must have been that of a giant judging from its immense size. I would take the jitters when I passed the office door. I remember when he built the house torn down by Gilbert Johnson. The big trees were little bushes when he set them out.
In front of our home was a lane through which all the cattle passed to the range in the bottom. Doctor Tubb had the most frightening billy goat that followed the cattle. His big horns, yellow eyes and long beard made him the terror of our lives."
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