PASSING A THICKET
However, Smith
and George
Gentry were both somewhat afraid to go by a thicket or that someone
would come and shoot them at night. Gentry’s second wife was a Day,
sister to Charlie Day, daughter of old Colonel Day of the Gentry’s Mill
country. Her sister, Mary Day, was living with them. She was about to
marry a man named, who couldn’t talk plain, called a thicket a
"ticket."
Gentry told her he wouldn’t let her marry a man who couldn’t say
"thicket." She told him she would rather marry a man like that
than one who was afraid to ride by a thicket for fear of being shot.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979