Emory Thomas Hull Interview

Emory Thomas Hull by Matthew Dent

"Oh yeah! I remember when the train come though here. I rode it from here to Parisburg. One time, took all day long. I go in Narrows and got off the train at six o’clock, and we left from up here about eleven. Me and my sister going up to my uncles, we walked from Narrow up to Parisburg where they lived. And they would load cattle out here where Janis Long and them lives there in front of the holyness church. They had a cattle lot there. People didn’t truck them. They hauled them from Burks Garden, Bland, and everywhere. Drove them in up here in the cattle lot and shipped them out by train. Take half a day or longer to get them lined out to get them all on the train to get it out of here. Track come through finally. They just railroaded it out after the Virginia Hardwood left. They didn’t have nothing up here to run it for. They hauled lumber and stuff out of here in boxcars (feed and stuff like that then.) It was all over. Then it was all gone."