MRS. ANNA CRIDER, Bradford, Tenn.


My grandfather, Squire Ned White, had a blacksmith shop at Skullbone, and made all the coffins for the neighborhood. My father's name was John White, a carpenter. He married Lou Crews, daughter of Hix Crews, a Baptist preacher.


Mr. Crider: There used to be a horse tread cotton gin at Skullbone. I have seen ground-hog wheat threshers, powered by sorghum mill type levers. John White and Lou had two children: Anna, Married Neely Crider and Ethel, married to Herbert Smith. Herbert Smith had one child named John, who lives at Atwood.

Transcribed by Jim Harrison