OBJECT COLLECTIONS Guns, Rifles, Sword, and Andy's Gun Story

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series : OBJECT COLLECTIONS
GUNS AND SWORD
c.1921
Recorded 2004-06-27 hw
Information from Fern Hall Hayes
regarding Guns and Sword at
Pine Mountain Settlement School.

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TAGS: Guns, sword, ceremonial sword, Andy’s Gun story, Katherine Pettit, Masonic Order, Masons, rituals, flintlock rifles, Taylor Maggard, Git Maggard, Macy’s Creek, [Maces Creek], [Mason’s Creek], Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Kentucky, Civil War, WWI,

ANDY’S GUN STORY

See: Pettit Scrapbook

FLINT LOCK RIFLES

July 1921

” Given to him a year ago by Joe Williams of Viper, KY.. his father., Isaac Williams, had owned it for three years.. Isaac got it of Taylor Maggard, Git Maggard’s boy, who lived on Macy’s Creek, and come from West Virginia to Cutshin.. Taylor Maggard got it from Gordon Bailey, who lived on the Bailey Fork at Macey’s Creek. He in turn got it of a boy who lived on Big Leatherwood., who goes by the name of Kaisel.”

HISTORY OF THE FLINT-LOCK GUN

“This gun was first owned by an old man named Elijah Fuller, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, But I don’t think he used this gun while he was a soldier..

After the death of the old man, one of his sons sold the gun to one old man named James Patrick, who died at the age of 98 years. Many bear and deer have been killed with this gun, and she was used by these old men to shoot at [which was known as] matches where fat oxen were shot for and it is said that she always won the prize.”

RECORDED BY HELEN WYKLE 2004-06-27 from FERN HALL HAYES Recollections

These additional flintlock guns are in the possession of Pine Mountain. One is split. the story, as told by Fern Hayes [mother of Helen Hayes Wykle], is that the rifle was stolen. From the office building in 1938 or 1939 after. access was given through a widow window. The gun was then buried. To hide the evidence, later found and returned to Pine Mountain School. Names of thief and person who returned the gun are not remembered.

CEREMONIAL SWORD ?

Sword with initials W. B. [William Browning ? – Probably Farm Manager Browning in early PMSS years Possibly a Masonic ceremonial sword. [Signo Vinces on sword] [Fern Hayes] “In hoc signo vinces” translates as ” “In this sign thou shalt conquer”, or”By this sign, conquer”.

POST CARD WWI – TWO SOLDIERS WITH GUNS

Possibly photographed and produced by Enoch C. Hall, Sr., [Father of Fern Hall] Viper, KY who, for a short time had a photography studio in Viper, Kentucky as well as a Barber Shop and was part owner in a merchandise store in the small lumber village . [Named “Viper” for the small snake], at the mouth of Macy’s Creek where it meets the Kentucky River, in Perry County, KY.