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S. J. Barley
Location : LaFollette, TN
Description : S.J. Barley, Rural Route #2, LaFollette, Tennessee.
Part of his best land will be inundated by Norris Dam
reservoir. Barley is an ex-preacher, a blacksmith, and a
carpenter, as well as a farmer. He has had 17 children
(only 11 now living), and is an applicant for a job. He
invested his life savings in a coal mine and lost it all.
The neighbors say: "He was born in a blacksmith shop with
a hammer in his hand." He made the "bull-tongue" plow in the picture. Of the boy
helping him at the outdoor forge, he said: "He is my sixteenth baby
and I have one smaller.
Taken 11-8-33. Listed Under:
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