Milford chronicle., 1938-01-14

hNuAy IN AtA8 A21NE u NtAl LtANuuAlAI
bought a tract of timber near White
Oak Swamp. and built a small house
14x16 feet. We moved in and stayed
there four years. A daughter and a
son were born to us there, Hannah
Long and Fred Long. In 1884 /
bought a half interest in the steam
mill Of VIM. r: McCabe at Selbyville.
We then moved back to Selbyyille.
In the same year (1ssD bought a
second tract of timber and land to
make a farm near Williamsville. /
moved the mill from the first place
to the second tract. We lived in Sell
byville three years while was
looking after both mills. One daugh-
ter was born to us there-Vurta
LcDg. In 1886 we move from Sell
byville back near Williamsville,
where my first mill was located.
One son was born to us there
James LOng-who died the same
year. We lived there six years while
| operated the mill In 1891
bought a tract near JOhnson's Cor
ner, moved the mill TO 1t and stayed
two years. In 1892 / bought the DR..
Mustard tract with part Of the land.
made a farm and built house. /
moved the mill near Roxana, and
operated it there until 1899. / then
bought a tract of timber from Jacob
Brasure and moved the mill there.
near Bayville. In 1902 / bought a
tract of timber near Sound Church
and moved the mill to that location.
While operating the mill at this
place / drove a team of horses 70
and from home (near Roxana) and
made crates for strawberries.
In 1910 l turned the mill over TO
my two sons and retired from the
mill and lumber business. l then
stayed home with my wife, tending
the garden and truck patches and
poultry until her death on October
13, 1916. l then went to live with
my daughter, Vurta, in Philadel-
phia.
The names of the stock OK teams
| used while carrying on the mill
and lumber business were OK,
Sweet and Swan, Gin and Jane. l
worked one pair four or five years
until they gave out, then sold them
and bought another pair. When l
1rst started l had pair of mules
named Jack and Kate. then a horse
named Linn. Then / bought a mule
named Mary then traded the horse
or another mule named Sal. After
ime / bought two more mules NAM
ID Kit and Paul. I then had three
lair of mules and a pair of horses,
arge dapple grays. /
The first camp meeting at Sound
,hurch was conducted in 1887.
In 1888. the second Sound Church
amp meeting was held. was con-
-erted there on August 10, 1888.
fas then forty-One years of age, and
decided that If should live to be
Id l had already spent half of my
lfe In sin. | therefore surrendered
II to Christ and look forward to
lis goodness and mercy. In my
ounger days / lived a normal life.
did not swear, did not lie, nor
teal, and lived up to the fifth COM
] donated to schools and I
at such times as | had the d;
leans to do so. At the second Sound
amp meeting | had a tent. This !
amp meeting was conducted for Ten ;
ears. then the Beach Camp was +;
Earted in 1898. This camp meeting {
as directed by the Methodist Pro-
sstant Church, and continued for
bout eight years. Then an agree
lent was made by which the Beach |
amp was conducted by the MethO-
LIST Episcopal Church, and the
Ound Camp by the Methodist Pro-
stant Church. This arrangement
until the World War. 7
lnce that time both camps have I
zen conducted by the Methodist a
piscopal Church.
MY Life In Philadelphia I
AS previously stated. went to s
We with my daughter. vurta. at 533 {
Drth FELTON, street. Philadelphia. in I
ecember. 1916. On February ~.
~. secured place In the cast Of
Sen Hur," which was being given p
the Forrest Theater. This was the h
st productive work I did in Phil b
elphia. My second position was y
the ammunition plant at Eddy v
one. / was employed there on the a
" when one OF the building was e
stroyed BY a terrible explosion in r
iich one hundred fifty-two persons h
ire killed. / was knocked down p
d slightly injured. l attended the 81
neral at Chester when the hun "
ed fifty-two bodies were buried in "a
e great grave, twenty by thirty
t. The explosion occurred on III