The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-19
Owen Stanley was his name,
England was his nation,
Any wood his dwelling place,
And Christ was his salvation.

They are reverent church people, and
the reigning King, Levi Stanley, and his
son and heir, known as " Sugar" Stan
ley, are members of the 1. 0. O. F., and
in good standing.
The grave of the Queen in which the
coffin will rest is box made of stone
slabs two feet deep and ten by four in
dimensions. Over the grave will be d
monument which again illustrates the
peculiarities of this people. On farm
adjoining the Stanleys, near the road,
was an immense bowlder, known in
these parts as nigger-head." Usu-
ally these stones are but two or three
feet in diameter, and from that as small
as football, partially rounded, differ
ing from all the native limestone in the
Deighborhood, being hard as adamant
and bleached by the weather to a sort
of bony whiteness of surface. &C.
ologists regard them as relics of the
glacial age, brought hither from remote
parts of the earth on the floating ice
fields. This particular bowlder captured
the fancy of Queen Matilda many years
ago when she first saw it. The owner
of the land gave her permission to take
it away, and she did. 1t was nearly
eight feet in diameter, and is tinged with
streaks of red, and weighs a number of
tons. This is being cut and shaped, and
will then be polished like granite, for
the base of the monument, and will be
surmounted by a life-sized figure of the
Queen herself in white marble. fhe
whole to be about 10 feet in height. The
plot in which the body is to be inferred
is in Woodlawn Cemetery of the city 3
Mr.. Anderson, of Chambersburg, has
known the SANKEY'S for years. Al
though an outlandish people, they are
not tramps. No violence, no. robbery,
high or low, has been reported of them
in 20 years. "There was one thing that
one of them did which always puzzled
me. One day in c., Thomas Stanley
sat by the fire with a crowd Of us coun-
try people by; he had a good team at
the door Said he, That horse and
outfit will belong to the man that first
tells me what Gypsy is and where they
came from; | don't know it myself.
This Thomas rented his farm-it must
be three years ago, as the custom is in
March-and started on journey next
month, to be gone three, five or seven
years. time. His wife was great on for
tunes, but was sick. Thomas moved
into the woods, and a two.foot snow
fell. Mrs Thomas began to brighten
up. The children played in the snow.
They did washing and made light Of it,
and it was pretty picture, too, in the
woods He declared that she brighten
ed up on getting out of the house. These
Gypsy women, sir, are true, single or
married, all the time" ID" ~
The horizon was scanned for smokes. |
None could be seen. You will have |
to go up to Sugars place on the Ma
tional Road, or to old Uncle Lewis.
Each is six or eight miles at least. |
Sugar this year, resumed farming, |
after many years renting out his place"
ado you know the old lady, Mrs.
Stanley Smith," -,
''Yes, she was the mother Of Mrs. |
Amelia Stanley Jeffrey, nigh on toil01.
A family named Mason (not Gypsies) |
live in the log house near the Jeffrey |
mansion. When her daughter died last /
March year ago, they had to haul her |
over to the grand Smith house-that |
was to the funeral. l go by the house
often, and generally on bright days You !
will see her on the south side, porch,
smoking the pipe, which she clings to, /
which they have to put into her hands,
and they have to move her around The
folks pay the people. well for caring, for
her. ~ --'''1''- '-
ssThatis a picture-a Gypsy centena-
rian summing herself in her second cen
tury, with the pipe that she is too feeble
TO fix for herself. u