Project 1885	—1..		..	~ 2()
District #4		390098
Spartanburg,	s.C.
June 2, 1937
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FOLK-LORE : EX~SIÂ1/ES


	it is not often that a person 102 years old is seen doinp manual labor, and especially as hard a job as picking cotton. Yet that is just what Thomas Jefferson was doing, who, as he himself stated, is, “102 years and 18 days old today.“ Asked why he was doing this, he replied, “Just to take a little
exercise.“	--

	Thomas lives with his daughter, Florence Hurnphreys, on a small farm, out near Shiloh Church, on Highway 29. Until recently, he slept in a little shack nearby, taking his meals with hi-s daughter. 11e is too feeble to live alone now, however.

	Thomas Jefferson was born on the farm of 1~r. Jenkins Hammond, on the old ilaimnond place, out on the ~illiamston road, on November 1, 1834. ~hen Mr. hammond‘s daughter, Mary Amanda Pauline, married Elias John ~arle, son of Samuel Girard Earle, who was one of the very first citizens of Anderson county, Lir. Hammond gave her, as a wedding gift, Thomas Jefferson‘s mother snd five children, of which Thomas was one. ~nd here he lived with the Earleson “Evergreen“ plantation, for many, many
years.	.

	During the War Between the States, Mr. ßarle operated a corn and flour miii, and Thomas Jefférson w as his miller. Asked if he r~nembered this, he rep1~ed, “Well, I do remember :i~t. I remember one time we ~worked all night Saturday night, all day Sunday and Sunday night, and Monday morning had ten barrels of flour to send the Confederate army.t‘