Sam McCartney lived at South Bend and kept a store. There was a mill built by a man the name of France and a tailor shop stood across the road from the L.A. Townsend house. Dave Ralston bought the farm which now belongs to Will Coleman. He was some sort of a dealer. He sold part of the land around South Bend to Chambers Orr. He didn't own the Captain France farm. The Blacksmith shop was run for years by Jacob Buckley. He made his own nails by hand. You could hear his hammer pounding out nails in the mornings by five o' clock. He made the nails for use that day before the customers came in, then drove horses all day. He was a great worker. He then sold out and bought a farm up toward Advance. The Orrs sold out to Robert Townsend and his son Henry for $14,000. Later on after the Civil War Robert Townsend, Jr. joined partnership with Henry, taking over his father's half interest in the land. Lou Adair lived in the old log house near the Wherry schoolhouse for a number of years. Father rented the log house on what is now the Jim Wray farm. The house stood in the field below the Wray barn. Jake Starry lived there awhile. Levi Hill later lived there and raised a large family and farmed that 100 acres of the farm. Grain was cut with a cradle, and hay with mowing scythe. We threshed with an old strap machine. We fastened down on the barn floor the cylinder power and had a strap to go out to a four horse power that was fastened down with pegs to the ground, and four long levers ran out from it with a horse hitched to each one, and some one stood in the center and drove the horses around. The belt that went in to the thresher (about four inches wide) went through the box into the barn and around this pulley on the cylinder, and the horses had to step over the box each time they went around. One horse followed another. It required seven or eight men to do the threshing. One cut and handed up the sheaves, one raked away back of the machine, another raked from him and back, and about two men shook the straw and forked it up into a mow. Another man or two worked in the mow, taking care of the straw. When the run was through, the horses were stopped and the men, after the grain was ra! ked off clean, shoveled it up to the side of the barn floor. The next day we re-cleaned the day's threshing and carried it into the garner.