Aubrey Sutton (deceased, Nashville, GA) |
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| Aubrey lived 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 a larger
horse mill that does not appear in the catalog excerpt I
have, and, of course, they 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." |
