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File Identification:Watson-087 | Date Scanned:Mar 18, 2008 | Source of Scanned Image:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | |
| Original Source of Image:Christine W. Outlaw | Digital Archiver:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | Image Restorer: | ||
| Original Image Size: | Scan Resolution (dpi) (Reduced files=200 dpi):300 | Exact Date of Original Image: | ||
| Estimated Date of Original Image:1943 | Basis for Date Estimate:educated guess | Unreduced File Size(px):613 x 938 | ||
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| Unreduced File Size(MB):0.5 | Reduced File Size (px):392 x 600 | Reduced File Size (KB):89 | ||
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| Subjects:Samuel L. Watson (= Sam Watson) Alton Rowan (in darker shirt) |
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| Comments:Saron Parr's family lived on the farm after the Wetheringtons moved away (between crop years 1942 and 1943). Saron's wife, Rebecca, had two children (Alton and James Rowan) and they had a daughter together (if I remember correctly). Daddy and Mama were always fond of Saron and Rebecca and up through my young adulthood visited with them to buy home-processed meats (souse, sausage), which they sold out the back door and were well known for. Alton (born 1927) was four years younger than Sam and after he finished high school at Poplar Springs, he went to work at a L.L. Browning's service station and stopped helping on the farm. Earlier, though, he did work on the farm and Saron and Grandpa Mark swapped labor (it was common for one family to have a set barn filling day each week and get help from neighbors and it went around). Anyhow, Alton mentioned with great enthusiasm--I don' know much about mules--that Grandpa had a very old mule, who could work rather independently. When the tobacco sled was full, Sam would tell her to go to the barn and she would go straight out to the end of the row, continue a little so that the sled would not cut across the end of the row, and then head to the barn (at the time he was referring to, the tobacco patch was southeast of the home and the barn(s) were at the northwest quadrant of what is now the intersection of the Mark Watson Road and Outlaw Road). Once the sled was emptied, the barn crew sent the mule back to the field. When I expressed some surprise about the obedience, Alton smiled and looked away and said that the mule knew that Sam would turn her inside out if she didn't behave. (There were two barns at the intersection--an older one that I can barely remember being used and which grew up in weeds in my youth and the one closest to the intersection, which I worked in. Both are gone now. There was also a tin barn on the Mark Watson place that was just off the southeast corner of Grandma place. It is gone now, but its location is marked by an aging oak and a cedar tree on my property. A newer barn yet was built in the pecan orchard on the Mark Watson place in my late teens, and now provides shelter to Larry's horses. On Daddy's farm, there were two barns that I know of. The first had already fallen over when I came along. It was located on the south side of the lane, west of the farmhouse, altogether, then, just off the edge of the pecan orchard. The barn at Daddy's place that was worked in my youth was built by Saron, almost singlehandedly. Alton explained that Saron used two long poles as skids to slide the logs up in place. This barn then, like the others except for the tin barn, were build of logs. The spaces between the logs were chinked with clay--special clay, I remember, that Sam and Herbert located someplace down in the woods. I remember when they went to get it, but I didn't go with them. At the barn up at our place (where my tin shed is now), but not the others according to my memory, planks were nailed parallel to the logs and covered the chinking.) btw, at the editing (Nov 3d, 2008), Alton has carried on the family tradition of selling sausage (fresh and smoked). He mentioned that he failed to get his mother's souse recipe, but didn't seem too disappointed, noting that he didn't like to fool with hogs' heads. The supplemental images are of Alton alone, and he is found elsewhere on Southern Matters ( http://www.southernmatters.com/sugarcane/operations-arowan.htm ). Supplemental Image A was at his high-school graduation. Supplemental Image B was taken at a carnival. |
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