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For more than thirty years Zolm Joeei Applawhito mood and operated mint vnie
known ee the 111.okOrbeavr Powerful ham., and big dresywascus.. Me vas a frieghter
of tho aLl deys mho, before the advmmt of the railroads hauled through t -e ecordh.s.
ine puns of manor or the bitter minde of winter on roads heavy in hot elands or.
rutted deep with rood in the minter, eith a Thurmond° to 'Ile hauled luabor that
new borne rdeht grow, that land edeht be tilled and cotton marketed,.
It rma a hard life, but Ilfe in the open always °covenanted "Melo-Apple" se
he van effeetionatay
we've plenty to live an the rent of our lives,' he would non "But I herd
have alomys worked hard, for that is the only way to aecampliah anything,"
After the building of the railroad In 1908 Mrs Applowhite sold his "frleghterer
and vent into the dairy busIness,.Previeue to that time he frieloted from Illea,
clittsma,. and Dublin to Lemiltans
Jere was a frioeht line of fourwegane of to mules sae, add sometimes the
roads were 00 bad that it took fres to 0 days to make the trip of 22 r3iles to
The heavy loaded
to pull them out.
During the first seven years of this tine LI.• Appleehlte frleghted for John S.
Spurlin, C,E. Horton mom ',straw bow", h e later went into tl'se frieghting businesa
forbdrealt
in the nod end often it took eiaht horses