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   ‚	Spartanbu~, Dlst.4	  . Elmer Turna~e
	Dec. 23, 1937
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		EX-SL~LVE STORLES


	“I was born on June 20th and I remember when the war broke out, for I was about five years old. We lived in Spartanburg County not far from old Cherokee Ford. My rather was Emanuel Birnore, arid he lived to be about 90 years old.

	“M~y xnarster was called by everybody, Col. Elmore, arid that is all that I can reme~~~ber about hisnarne.When he went to

the war I wanted to go with.hirn, but~I was too little. He jo1ned~ the Spartanburg Sharp Shooters. They had a driliground near the~ Falls. My pa took me to see them drill, ana they were calling him Col. Elrnorethen. When I ~ot hönie I tried to do like hirn arid every~ body laughed at nie.That is about all th~at Iremember about the

~ war, in those days,~ children did riot ~riow thi~s likethay dG now,~.
	arid~rown folksdid riot know as much either. ~	- . :	: ~.

I	“I used to go and watch ~ father work. He was a moulder in the Cherokee Iron Works ‚ way back tha1~e when everyt hing was •

~ done by hand. He xnoulded everything from knives and Lorks to

skillets and wash pots. If yo~i could have seen pa‘s haxnzner‘r~ you

	would have seen SOme~3iO~ worth looking at. It was so big that it jarred th& whole earth when lt struck a liçk. of coursé it was a -

- forge hainnier, driver~ by water poWer. They called. the~ hammer ‘Big Henry‘. The butt end was as big as an ordinary telephone pole.

	“The water wheöl had fifteen or twenty spokes ja it, but

	~	when it was running it looked like it was solid. I used to like to sit and watch that old vvheel. The water ran over it and the more wa1~ er caine over ‚ t he more fower t he wheel gave out.


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