Brent Glass
Mrs. Durham, did you do any work on the farm when you were a little girl?
Flossie Moore Durham
Nothing more than just pick a little cotton or a little something like that. I wasn’t but ten years old. Wasn’t quite ten even. So just like any child would now.
Mary Frederickson
Did your brothers help your father work the farm?
Flossie Moore Durham
Yes, they did. They worked with mules then, mules and a wagon and the plows. You know, [UNCLEAR]. There weren’t no such thing as a tractor then. No. Not in this country.
Mary Frederickson
Did he have anyone else working on the farm with him? Did he have any hired help?
Flossie Moore Durham
Just the family. There was two boys old enough to work on the farm, plowing, things like that. And, like I said, they sowed wheat, made plenty of flour with the wheat.
Mary Frederickson
Would he grind his own wheat? Did he have a little mill to grind his own wheat?
Flossie Moore Durham
It was right here at Bynum, a real good grist mill, a big, nice grist mill, and they’d grind the wheat and the corn for anybody that’d bring it here. I’ve seen it, right down there where now there’s trees grown, and that’s where the grist mill was at. And there was two men run it, and usually the yard all around there in front of the mill was full of horses and wagons and different carts and different things, bringing in the stuff here. They kept the mill a-going; sometimes they couldn’t even keep up in the daytime.
Mary Frederickson
Did they run the mill at night sometimes?
Flossie Moore Durham
Sometimes they would.
Mary Frederickson
Did you used to come in with your father to bring the wheat in?
Flossie Moore Durham
No, I never come in with him. No, I never come in like that, but the boys would.