Sam Hall went to a one room school where his sister was the teacher. One day at recess he and another boy got into a fight and sam whipped him. The teacher brought them both in and gave the a whipping for fighting. After they "took up books" Sam got to teasing the other boy saying you got 2 whipppings and I just got one. The teacher heard him and called him to the front and proceeded to wear him out. She said I guess you are both even now. Sam said that was the hardest whipping he ever got in his life.


Some where in the twenties a forest fire swept through the Lick Ridge area of Floyd County. It was the biggest fire anyone had ever seen and several people lost barns and personal items in addition to their timber.
My Aunt Pearl Eanes took all of their clothes and bedding out in the middle of a field thinking the fire would destroy the house. The fire missed the house but burned up all of the items she had put in the field.Her daughter, Hazel, said the neighbors brought them beddinf and clothes.

In the mid teens the Maxey Boys, sons of William Washington and Lydia Hall Conner, had a well drilling machine as well as a sawmill. These were powered by stem engines.
Uncle Charlie's wife had knitted him a new sock cap and he was the "sawyer' and daddy was fireing the engine. Daddy said he saw a spark leave the smoke stack and light in Uncle Charlie's handlebar mustache. He smelled something burning and thought the spark had landed in his head. He kept brushing it untill the spark hit meat and then he knew where it had went.