Excerpt from Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions and Kuklux Outrages of the Carolinas

Jones, the eldest of the three, was a native South erner, ' to the manor born, (a favorite phrase, by the way, in that section, ) and had left the home of his nativity, only sixty miles to the northeast of our present place of abode, in fact, having passed the greater part of his manhood as an intinerant carpenter, he was well acquainted not only with every town and hamlet of any note in all that region of country, but he was deeply versed in the avenues of travel leading to them, which was a very important acquisition in a section of country where there were no railroads, and where the tourist was relegated to the usages in vogue before the advent of the Christian era. He knew the names and places of residence of every property-holder of any note as well, and, had the records and maps of the country been lost, I verily believe he could have located more than one half the farms, and given them metes and bounds from his retentive memory, for stakes and stones and blazed trees were as familiar to him as the ordinary thoroughfares of business are to the metropolitan merchant. He could no more part with the services of his friendly pipe than he could with his better half, and when comfortably ensconced by the side of a glowing hickory fire on a winter's night, with his pipe well filled, he could spin yarns by the hour.

Brown was the junior of Jones, and, while he had not the same degree of experience concerning country life, yet he made it his boast that he knew a thing or two, because he had spent several years as a resident of that great hive of industry, New York - a name, the very mention of which to the average rustic of the South, causes his eyes to dilate like miniature saucers and animates his curiosity. Brown was impulsive, he preferred fighting to eating, he carried his revolver and bowie knife, and bore the reputation in all that section of being a bad man, of which epithet, as applied to him, he was very proud.

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