Smyrna times., 1909-01-13
RECOLLECTION OF SMYRNA
OF OVER HALF A CENTURY
WILLIAM A.HUKlLL RECALLS HIS
BOYHOOD DAYS IN THIS VICINITY
Tells of People He Knew Who Were
Prominent in Smyrna in the Early
Fortes and Relates Incidents

Prominent in Smyrna in the Early
Forties and Relates Incidents
Wilmington, Jan. lin writing
up these little stories on Smyrna II
has been in a large measure from
memory and occasionally have ven
tured to guess when ! was not quite
sure, which does very well when you
guess right, but have been told that
l did not guess right on Wesley
Jones, but got it divided with his
brother. l was also told that l was
wrong about the Hamilton boy being |
lynched in 1847 or 1848, and would |
like to be corrected in this particu-
lar. Some of the oldest people OF
Smyrna could tell exactly. Mrs
Speakman, out at the Cloak home,
could. However am going to guess
once more. l can't recall anything
that gives me any use for the letter
K, but L stands in LockoOd and l
know there was a David Lockwood
who was druggist and kept store
nearly opposite the lower hotel. He
was large, fine looking man and
had two daughters, Katie and Vir-
ginia. | think married Mr.. Rich
ards some where down the county and
the other was later the wife OF
Colonel Douglass of Smyrna. When
a small boy was often sent on horse
back to see DIR. Perkins, whose office
was near the drug store, and from
there went with my prescription to
the drug store. One day after / had
gotten my medicine which was put
in a bottle too large to go in any
pocket had conveniently, l halted
on the doorstep outside to try to find
some way by which | could carry
that bottle on horseback While |
was trying to get it into the pocket
of my little monkey coat, as they
were called in those days, | heard
laughing over my head and as | look
ed up there was those two girls laugh
ing to beat the band and when they
saw they were caught one of them
ventured the consoling expression,
"Put it. in your hat, Sonnie, - which
was a little tantalizing to me in tha'
nv time of tribulation, and served
the purpose of making me remembe
them, but it was fun for the girls.
Captain Mustard a Prominent Man.
Mustard was a prominent name i
Smyrna at one time, but so far a
know has about gone out. job
Mustard a tanner, and at one tim
one of the firm of Mustard & Peter
son, and carried on the tanning busi
ness in Smyrna. | have taken ther
many a hide for my father and haule
them bark for the tanning business
and Horace. The latter is gentle
man of high standing and had the dii
tinction of being the fourth husbar
of a lady whom l knew we'll in n
boyhood davs from meeting her at n
aunt's, Mrs. James V. Moore
Odessa, then Cantwell's Bridge.
never knew her maiden name but ht
first husband was Nathaniel Beac
um. Then Mr.. Palmatary of Smy
ma. married her, then Captain Jol
Eaton and fourth Mr.. Mustard.
An Experience at AsburY M. {. Chur
When a young man somtim
went to the Methodist Church for
change, and one Sunday evening
ing a little late took a seat near t
door. and during the singing the
was a little funny thing happenC
or at least it seemed funny then,
Young people are easily tickled son
times. There was a man by the ma
of Ruth who sat in the seat in frC
of me. There is a time between
ending of one verse and the begir
ing Of the next when there is dc
silence and the gentleman in quest
was trying to do his share of maxi
melody on that occasion and not be
sufficiently careful about his time
got ready for the next verse bef
the choir master and started on "
the part in advance of the lea
during the dead calm already m
toned, just so as to be heard
tinctly all over the house and to
it was exceedingly funny, for
grunt sounded comical and he loo
silly, and no doubt felt so, for
n caught himself with word half
tered and then waited till the
caught up.
An Episode on The Clay Campai!
In the days of Henry Clay's ca
dacy for president, in 1874, the D
ocrats called him Coonnie Clay
got the old coon up in all sorts
shapes. For instance as was the