The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-22
yet standing.

Hugh Mclean was asked if they had
any of the family heirlooms. He re-
piled: None, except Col. McAlisters
sword. which is a claymore." This an
ccstor was horn in 1893, and 200 years
are thus spanned by three generations.
Hector and Hugh have spent most of
their lives together. They were when
quite young apprenticed to a tailor at
Fayetteville and served five years.
After their time was out they went to
school at home. and when they We're
twcnty-siX studied English grammar
four months under Gen. Mclean.
Hugh. i'll speaking of this added: Then
we studied by ourselves for years. III
fact, | still study and so does brother
Hector" To hear Hugh speak ono
would THINKS him boyiSh and that his
brother and he were lads together. He
said:
We went to Fayetteville when we were
sixteen. and were tailorS there ten years.
Then we went to Alabama and worked
seven years. We made money there.
We lost negroes and money by the war.
We had much money lent III Alabama,
and after the war the people who Dor
oWc could not pay. We always APP
piled ourselves to our trade. We stud
lNi II. VIC hctl ldlttI lIidIl 11lOSU itto-
pie who are in trade, and we got more
money than NEST people in our line"
Hugh was asked if he or his brother
had ever married. He said:
We were always social with the
ladies. Hector proposed marriage twice,
but didn't succeed. / never got to the
point where | thought | could suit my
self. | vas Il great hand to 80 to parties
lnI ON w r,ysnJf E,a1- .+l ,,.J
| were always strictly temperate. |
used to take Il glass of cggnog at Christ
nrls time. Liquor was often offered us.
but we. never touched it. Brother used
tobacco several years, but | never chew
cI or Smokcd.'
The venerable man showed, Il dagucr-
reotypc of himself and his brother. the
nseEarableS. taken at Fayetteville when
they were forty, and 4 handsome pair
of men they were. not looking Il day over
twenty-five. He said:
Il travel Il good deal. | like it. Brother
Is now feeble and DOESN'T travel much.
We will be lightweight years old on
February Ii. We were never in the
mlAtary service. We We're too old to
serve IN the last war. We toOk the
fayetteville paper from 1887 to 1860,
and since then we have taken "a Louis
willie paper. We buy books which inter
est us and have Il library of which we
are very proud.
"Rrother and | own everything in conf
O our house and our land. We have
had large tracts of timber land, but solu
most of it. When we lived in Alabama
we were so much alike that two years
after | left people did not know | was
gone. They saw brother Hector and
thought he was-if | may use the phrase
-1both of us
Both Hector and Hugh are greatly
interested in looking up their family
history. Hector has given much care
and money to the placing of tombs zones
over the graves of his kinsmen. They
both want information as to their rela-
tives in Scotland. The McLeans were
from Jure, Hugh says. 1t was pa
thetic to hear him say:
Not a person is now living in Fay
etteville save one who was there when
we went to the place in 1896. Then the
town had 1000 people. 1t has not grown
much since. The greatest growth rs in
the graveyard. All! how that has
grown
These aged twins. whose love for each
other is untouched by time. went I"
Fayetteville and had their photographs
taken side by side just as they were IN