franklin county mo 1878 plat: part 3

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grist mill, saw mill, and carding machinery property of jp norlin esq., Robertsville, Franklin County, MO

HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY—Continued.

EARLY MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC.

Our fathers after the flesh and in civilization, were as hospitable, and as sociable a people as ever lived. If a neighbor took sick, he was watched over as a brother ; and if his sickness was prolonged, his crops were looked after and his wood cut and hauled, if in winter. If a deer was killed, the first thing done was to divide with the neighbors. If a house was to be raised, men would go for ten and fifteen miles to assist, and their wives would often accompany them, for our mothers were as sociably inclined as their lords ; and a better, purer, or more virtuous class of women never lived, than the pioneer ladies of this country. A log-rolling was an event in the period to which log-rollings belonged ; and while the men rolled together and burned logs, the women managed to have a “quilting” at the some time and place, when enjoyment peculiar only to those good old days reigned supreme.