Heirloom Gifts to the History Museum

tn_photo01.jpg Claude S. Sitton, first gifts recorded (2003), rifle and two kraut packing malls.
tn_photo02.jpg Tom Cook with Fred Bishop's W.W.I helmet, scrub board, and background photo of Drexel Furniture Plant #5 ca. 1955.
tn_photo04.jpg Ruth Hogshead - medical instruments used by late husband Dr. Ralph Hogshead who practiced in county 1948-1982.
tn_photo05.jpg James A. Blakley - W.W.II army uniform and trunk with miscellaneous items.
tn_photo07.jpg Bob Vernon McGhinness - Boy Scout uniform and memorabilia.
tn_photo08.jpg Mable and Rondal Mull - family hay rake and other family items.
tn_photo09.jpg Carl Laughridge - barber shop tools and items.
tn_photo10.jpg Juanita Jaynes - family sewing machine and curtain stretchers.
tn_photo11.jpg Delphia Laughridge - apple butter pot and stir stick.
tn_photo12.jpg Betty Grady - prehistoric Native American ceramic pot, Brendletown Fire Dept.
tn_photo14.jpg Wilbur Clay - carpenter tools used by his father, Ervin "Dick" Clay.
tn_photo15.jpg Hazel Mull - family farm and yard tools.
tn_photo16.jpg Michael Conley - items from Morganton Printing Company by this father, Floyd Alden Conley.
tn_photo17.jpg Melvin and Nellie Hildebran - horse drawn cotton and corn seed planter used by Amos Fredell.
tn_photo18.jpg Lucille Humphries - husband's, Joe Humphries, W.W.II U.S. Army Air Force uniform and documents.
tn_photo19.jpg Mary Jane and Howard Simmons - Sally Michaels' soapstone pipe molds for the manufacture of clay smoking pipes popular ca. 1860s.
tn_photo20.jpg Bobby D. Walker - shoe repair and cobbler tools.
tn_photo21.jpg Wilma Denton - hand operated corn sheller.



 

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