The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-20
yet standing.

Hugh Mclean was asked if they had
any of the family heirlooms. He re.
piled: None, except Col. McAlister's
sword, which is a claymorp." This an
cestor was born 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 tailor at
Fayetteville and served five years.
After their time was ont they went to
school at home, and when they were
twenty-six studied English grammar
four months under Gen. Mclean.
Hugh, in speaking of this added: "Then
we studied by ourselves for years. In
fact, | still study and so does brother
Hector" To hear Hugh speak one
would think 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 mach money lent in Alabama,
and after the war the people who Dor
rowed could not pay. We always APP
Piled ourselves to our trade. We stud
led 1T. We worked harder than most pe0-
pie who are in trade, and we got more
money than most people in our line
Hugh was asked if he or his brother
had ever married. He said:
I'VE were always social with the
Indies. Hector proposed marriage twice,
but | didn't succeed / never got to the
POINT where | thought | could suit my
self. was a great hand to go to PARTIES
and enjoyed myself finely. Brother and
! were always strictly temperate.
used to take u glass of eggnog mt Christ
mas time. Liquor was often offered MS.
but we never touched it. Brother used
tobacco several years, hut never chew
ed or smoked
The venerable man showed a daguer-
reofype of himself and his brother. the
inseparables, taken at Fayetteville when
they were forty, and q handsome pair
of men they Were, not looking a day over
twenty-five. He said:
81 travel a good deal like it. Brother
is now feeble and DOESN'T travel much.
We will be lightweight years old on
February 49, We We're never in the
military service. We We're too old to
serve in the last war. We took the
Fayetteville paper from 1887 to 1865,
and since then we have taken "a Louis
willie paper. We buy books which inter
est us and have "a library of which we
are very proud.
Brother and | own everything in COM
mon, our house and our land. We have
had large tracts of timber land, but SOLD
most of 1T. When we lived in Alabama
we We're so much alike that two years
after l left people did not know l was
gone. They saw brother Hector and
Thought he was-if l may use the phrase
-'both of u.s.
Both Hector and Hugh are greatly
interested in looking up their family
history. Hector has given much care
and money to the placing of tombstones
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 person is now living in Fay.
etteville save one who was there when
We went to the place in 1926. Then the
town had 1000 people. 1t has not grown
much since The greatest growth is in
the graveyard. All! how that has
grown
These aged twins, whose love for each
other is untouched by time, went to
Fayetteville and had their photographs
taken side by side just as they were in