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AN OLD IlMK MILLER(rmjor-mnd II of13 tiraii-rdse dive ' theticwl em-than rity. i «J-Mr. Murphy Burras lives near Rom sour on Holland’* Creek. Mi'- Bur-riss wa* 76 year* old March 16, 1D1 Mr. Burn** us* born ot Walker'* Mill, formerly Bell's Mill, on Deep River in Randolph county. Hi* fuiher was Emslcy Burris*, u miller, and was for several year* miller st Walker1* Mill, Mr. Burrifs' father moved fm Walker^ Mill to Coltrsne’# Mill whcrv he attended the mill there for a tlmej nfirl from Lherr he went to Union Mill now Handleman, when* he attended the mill which stood until a few yearn ago on the eart side of the south end of the Kanidemon bridge. At this place he rent to public school at New .Salem to Charles Jon**, anil afterwards to John Daniel* and a teacher named McCollum marl also to another teacher. Win, Field*. He remember* ihnt McCaltom got drunk at school and seared the children so they •’scampered of home, whereupon the committee rome and discharged him.Mr. Burrlus jays that the teacher Wm. Fields, wm Willed by the limb of a tree cut down whrn ’possum hunt-ing. He say* there was deep sorrow in the eofmnnnity becmtre of the death of Mr. Fields, who wna a most excellent man as wrtl as a good Uasher.Mr. Burris*’ father moved to Joseph Hoover’s Mil! oti the ‘‘little prong of Uwhfrric near Nuievait Rush’s* and after that to Jonathan Ijibftiter’a Mill further down on Uwhurnc. He left the Hoover mill after the death of Joseph Hoover whom he remembers as a large man who died of dropsy, leaving several children, eleven lit number, a* be now remembers. The milt needed repruia nnd .liinalhnn fjuatttv* then * young man. hearing of Mr. Burms’ father us mrfler w ont to pee him nrul agreed to movrr him and hi family without any charge. Teams, were tent and for vrvend years hi* father was mill or and Tlvwl an thia side of the river anil enxwd the river each day in a bateau. Mr Burnt* say* ho Helped h^ father in the mill and uraed the miner's trade. In those days the flour trade to Fayetteville was im-memo- Sixteen Hand red or more barrels of Hoar duHug tin* winLer.Mr, Hum .- says the best neighborhood he ever lived in wim at Lassiter's Mill. The people were horwat snd the community was noted for its morals and uprightness. Mr. RurriftS and three brother*, William. Unas and Alfred were in the civil war for morn than three years, all of his brothers diod while in the army, on© of them buried In Richmond in the cemetery where Revolutionary soldiers we« buried.Mr. Burris* was for many year* the miller ut Cedar Falls at the mill whore what is known as the 1ow*r cot ten mill is now located. After that He was the miller at Franklinville, in the *me mill house now known the Fnusklinville Roller Mill.Mr. Burrisa ie in fairly good health and His recollection la good. Be talk* interestingly of civil war times and other days.(imViTiE. liev* nf I it h! fBtiri new in it the 59f» sam anno ing ry s of If the i for \ in ri 1914 of ti com time1 n*M pro wor cept deai lt;r*t ly .i l»g 'Th Km pub wh\ per1, pea the cva con tb« will ym tra froi tidi spa thii
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Asheboro Courier
Asheboro, North Carolina, US
Thu, May 06, 1915
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