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Captain
Duncan McIntyre was a farmer who lived several miles from
the Gregg/Wallace farm. This
page in Captain McIntyre’s record book shows the amount of
cotton picked by various people on three days in September
1895. It gives a tentative
answer to the question, how much cotton would people
generally pick? Note that
Minda exceeded all the others, picking 212 pounds in one
day. That was probably Minda
Johnson, the wife of Vico Johnson, because they lived on
Captain McIntyre’s land on National Cemetery Road in Mars
Bluff before they bought their own land.
This book was in the home of Amelia M. Wallace from
1920, when Ms. McIntyre died, until it passed from the
estate of Amelia Wallace to the hewn-timber cabins
collection in 1995. This
fragile book is in the box with the Wallace papers, in the
Arundel Room, Rogers Library, Francis Marion University. (Photo 1999) |
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