Aubrey Sutton (Nashville, Georgia)
Aubrey lived between Lenox and
Nashville, Georgia. My father's first cousin, he was
certainly one of my favorite people because of his
generosity, honesty, wit, and passion for life. This is
one of two mills that Aubrey owned. This mill was drug off
into a pasture about 100 yards from the old house where my
grandmother was murdered in the 1930s. (This is not the
original mill that she owned. That mill was disassembled
and finally junked.)
Although Aubrey is gone, he left
us with some wonderful memories. Aubrey had a little
monkey, which was the apple of his eye, though neighbors
did not share the infatuation. This was a mischievous
monkey, a capuchin, I think, and Aubrey regaled in his
antics. Aubrey never seemed to mind when the monkey turned
the water on and left it running. He was amused when the
little bugger chased the cows, and, genealogy excepted,
Aubrey would rather tell you about how this little monkey
rode the sows bareback, much to their consternation and
exhaustion, than anything else. It seemed that nothing
could ever come between Aubrey and his monkey, but
something did. That cute little monkey laid out an ambush
for Aubrey and hid in the rafters in the carport until
Aubrey came home one night. Although it was not a flood of
historical proportions, it might as well have been because
it washed all the love from Aubrey's heart, and before too
long that monkey was only a memory.
Slides 1 and
2 show a Golden New
Model No. 2x horse mill. Golden made four standard models of
3-roller, framed horse mills (1, 2, 3, and 4) with the No. 2
being the most common that I have observed. (Golden also
made power mills.) Golden produced an "x" series
and an "xx" series also. Thus, the rollers of the
No. 2x are 50% longer than the rollers of the # 2, with a
proportional increase in juice output (to 67 gallons per
hour). The top of this series, the No. 4xx 2-horse heavy
mill, was essentially equal to Golden's smallest power mill,
the No. 27, in juice output.
The sweep lever was made by
McDonough Ballentyne, Savannah Georgia.
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