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Note: Copied from Iron County Register. W.P. Brewington, who died at his mill on Crane Pond, was buried on his farm on the St. Francis River Granite Lodge.I.O.O.F. attended the funeral, your correspondent among the number. We had a wholeday's drive and saw some wild seenery, lots of rocks, the beautiful snow and several places where beautiful pines cluster on the hillsides. After crossing Crane Pond we went up a steep hill, thence over and down into Leatherwood valley , where, here and there, a clump of small cedars greeted the eye, and several nice farms were to be seen. At the mouth of Leatherwood Creek the road makes a long horseshoe curve to effect an easy ascent of a large hill. From the top of this hill your correspondent first saw the St. Francis river, whose placid bosom was covered with a sheet of ice and snow and lay almost a hundred feet below . The road at this point winds upon the brink of a precipice from which the seenery is sublime. The road descends rapidly from this point, and, by a short turn, you are brought within easy view of the face of the cliff,and, if you are of an imaginative nature, you will shudder at the though of the terrible fate that might follow should a team become frightened while hanging over this gigantic rock. there is an abundance of oak and pine on those hills. Upon our arrival at the farm, we found the house and yard crowded with friends and relatives of the deceased, who had come from miles around to witness the last sad rites. After the ceremonies were over we started on our long ride home,which we reached without adventure or accident . I almost forgot the little water-mill on Leatherwood. It was running, Mr. Editor--yes, sir, actually running on Sunday. The front door was locked with a padlock, which showed us that there was no one inside Now, Mr. Editor,suppose the owner of this mill had filled the hopper on Saturday evening, turned on the water and forgot to get up at midnight and shut it off. If he let it run it would grind all day Sunday,and if he shut it off he would have to labor on Sunday. But few people pass that way, the mill did not make much noise, and it was a very small mill any how, so he just let her grind. Murphy. My first cousin once removed Angeline Brewington Miller told me that Patton was his real name was he is listed by Peyton in some places her grandfather was William Porter S/O William Patton Brewington

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