"When the watermelons are at just the right state of development-- over-ripe enough to be picked up easily by a pitchfork, but not too ripe to slip off the forks, or break open-- they are loaded by farm hands into a specially designed field seed…
Pat Shepherd sits as a passenger in a wagon owned by the Southern Express Company. The sign on the building In the background says “Pecan Specialists, Jefferson Nursery”
Mauma, a Partridge family slave, was brought to South Carolina on a slave ship from Africa. She came to Jefferson County with John and Eliza Partridge in the 1830's, and was Frances Weston Partridge's nurse. Frances later married Charles Thomas…