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Mar 31-1989
I was around the age of eleven or twelve when the first automobile come to this part of the country. One day I heard a noise I'd never heard before and the main road (highway) ran right in front of our old home, so when I heard the noise I ran to the front door and saw this horrible thing coming with no horse hitched to it. It really did look funny. The first man that bought one was Mr. Ottis Lancar & Cidney his sons, who lived in Logtown, Mississippi. The first automobiles that come out was called Fords. They made about 40 miles an hour. The next man who bought one was Mr. Horacia Weston, then next Willie's uncle Andy Bennett and Willie Hover.
There when motors for boats and etc., came out the men could stop using oars & paddles so it saved men folks a lot of hard work. I remember when sister Emma's first son was a little fellow and they lived on the bank of the Pearl River and Kenneth would hear a motor boat coming and he'd say here comes a putty put boat. So after that every one around Napoleon nearly, called them putty put boats.
The reason I remember so well about the time Willie bought our first automobile was a while before my father died and he passed away in the year of 1918. My oldest son Volney was born March 11th, 1917. My fathers request was that he wanted his horse (Dandy) to take him to his resting place so he did just that and Willie took a car load of the family and we followed behind Dandy and the wagon that had the deceased in.
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