TX BIOS  C. E. Horton, Hamilton CO. TX

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   [????] Folkstuff - Pioneer lore FOLKWAYS
   
   Mrs. [Edgorton?] Arnold, P.W.
   
   Hamilton County, Texas
   
   District B
   
   No. Words 254
   
   File No. 240
   
   Page No. 1 REFERENCE
   
   C. E. HORTON, HAMILTON, TEXAS TRANSPORTATION. "UNCLE APPLE"
   
   For more than thirty years John Joseph Applewhite owned and operated
   what was known as the "Frieghters". Powerful horses and big dray
   wagons. He was a frieghter of the old days who, before the advent of
   the railroads hauled through the scorching suns of summer or the
   bitter winds of winter on roads heavy in hot sands or rutted deep with
   mud in the winter, with a four-mule team. He hauled lumber that new
   homes might grow, that land might be filled and cotton marketed.
   
   It was a hard life, but life in the open always compensated "Uncle
   Apple" as he was affectionately called.
   
   "We've plenty of live on the rest of our lives,' he would say: "But I
   work hard and have always worked hard, for that is the only way to
   accomplish anything."
   
   After the building of the railroad in 1908 Mr. Applewhite sold his
   "frieghters" and went into the dairy business. Previous to that time
   he frieghted from Hico, Clifton, and Dublin to Hamilton.
   
   There was a frieght line of four wagons of four mules each, and
   sometimes the roads were so bad that it too from 3 to 5 days to make
   the trip of 22 miles to Hico.
   
   The heavy loaded wagons would stick in the mud and often it took eight
   horses to pull them out.
   
   During the first seven years of this time Mr. Applewhite frieghted for
   John S. Spurlin, C. E. Horton was "straw boss". He later went into the
   frieghting business for himself.
   
     NOTE: C12 2/11/41 Texas

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