By: Stan Jordan
The above old time picture was given to me by Donnie Shaffer. He found it in some his mother’s old time collection. I think it came from one of the Paulding papers. What I mean here, is look that scene over slowly and it tells you a story.
I assume they are either going to church or retiring from church. One of those farmers has a team of oxen and a cart of some kind. It seems that all of them have on their Sunday best. The driver probably has one of his grandson’s riding on one of the oxen. There is about three ladies on the cart and the one lady on crutches couldn’t crawl up on the cart.
Notice that nearly all the males are wearing weaving hats, now a days that would be a ball cap. Notice that there is a good wooden sidewalk and sort of tells us that this picture was taken in the late 1890’s. They don’t have cars yet and the cement sidewalks came about 1900.
The oxen are standing easily, that is what they done best, but yes they are slow.
See ya!
