Aubrey Sutton (deceased, Nashville, GA) |
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between Lenox and Nashville, GA. My father's first
cousin, he was certainly one of my favorite people
because of his generosity, honesty, wit, and passion for
life. This is one of two mills that Aubrey owned. This
mill was drug off into a pasture about 100 yards from the
old house where my grandmother was murdered in the 1930s.
(This is not the original mill that she owned. That mill
was disassembled and finally junked.) Although Aubrey is gone, he left us with some wonderful memories. Aubrey had a little monkey, which was the apple of his eye, though neighbors did not share the infatuation. This was a mischievous monkey, a capuchin, I think, and Aubrey regaled in his antics. Aubrey never seemed to mind when the monkey turned the water on and left it running. He was amused when the little bugger chased the cows, and, genealogy excepted, Aubrey would rather tell you about how this little monkey rode the sows bareback, much to their consternation and exhaustion, than anything else. It seemed that nothing could ever come between Aubrey and his monkey, but something did. That cute little monkey laid out an ambush for Aubrey and hid in the rafters in the carport until Aubrey came home one night. Although it was not a flood of historical proportions, it might as well have been because it washed all the love from Aubrey's heart, and before too long that monkey was only a memory. |
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| Above are views
of a Golden New Model #2x horse mill. Golden made four
standard models of horse mills (1, 2, 3, and 4) with the
# 2 being the most common that I have observed. (Golden
also made power mills.) Golden produced an "x"
series and an "xx" series also. Thus, the
rollers of the #2x are 50% longer than the rollers of the
# 2, with a proportional increase in juice output (to 67
gallons per hour). The top of this series, the 4xx
2-horse heavy mill, was essentially equal to Golden's
smallest power mill, the # 27, in juice output. The sweep lever does not fit-markings on it are "McDonough Ballentyne." I interpreted another inscription on the sweep lever as "Savannah Georgia." |
