Introduction

Having been blessed with many years of life and most of it lived in the region of Upper Paint Creek Valley and having always been interested in the early history of this locality, I think I should try to record the things I have learned in order that they will lot be lost to future generations.

In my boyhood days some of the older men of the community liked to fox hunt and several of them kept fox hounds. They would all meet with their hounds at some high point and enjoy the music of their dogs chasing the fox.

On these fox chasing trips there were always several boys who went along not for the chase but for the stories that were told by The older men of the party of the early days of the settlers of this section. The Williamses, the Maynors. the Feazells, and the Tyrees were great story tellers and we younger boys heard many interesting stories when the fox chase was out of our hearing and we learned many facts and legends pertaining to the early settlers of this region.

Some of the things I heard in this manner I will try to record here.