“When I first moved to Alpharetta I moved in with Buck and Helen (Burgess). I was married to Juliet. We were married January 1938.”

“There is a history behind the Devores. They came down here in 1841. They brought every thing they had in a two horse wagon and moved up to Providence. After living up there he got a grant for three or four thousand acres of land, maybe more, I don’t know how much and they had some up in Cherokee County. Somehow or other he got a hold of a saw mill. I don’t know whether he brought it with him or what. It was pulled with a steam engine then. The next people who moved in after he got settled in the would get 30 or 40 acres. Back then it was all woods and had to be cleared and the husband and wife would clear the land for farming and build a house and barn and tend it for four years and then it would belong to them. They would get a deed for it and the next people would move in and you would have to help them to clear their land and build a barn. That was a pretty good thing--you would work for what you had. That’s where it came to us swapping work and it was a good thing. My grandfather gave the property for Providence Church. A fellow by the name of Phillips, I believe it was, built the church.”

“The house I lived in was torn down a good while ago. It was there at Providence Road and Birmingham Highway there up on a hill a big old white house. I lived there for three or four years after I married.”

“There are a lot of old pictures in yonder. Sue is coming over and looking through them for pictures of old houses.”

“When I was 10 years old I was tall and thin but I had to work just like a man. I plowed the fields and worked the farm. My brother got married and moved away and my Mother and I had to take care of the farm. You know my mother was a midwife and she delivered a lot of the babies around here. ... Roy Landrum and his wife had twins. They called Mother one night to come over there and I hitched up the buggy and took her over there and she delivered the babies because she could get there before the doctor. They asked me what to name them and I said ‘Pete and Repete.’ He never did let me forget that. Of course he’s dead now.”

“My mother was a Mayfield. My grandfather Mayfield owned a lot of property on Mayfield and Providence Road. James was his name; his father was William.”

“I started school when I was 6 at ---------------. I went up there for two years and then I went to Crabapple and then to Milton but I had to quit in the 9th grade because I had to make a living. I would ride a horse to school and my uncle Tom Mayfield lived near the school and his daughter lived across the street from him going to the school and I’d put my horse in her barn. Henry Williams lived in the house on the road to the school on the other corner. Next to Vita’s house was a house where Missouri Hansard lived. She was deaf and dumb. Miss Jenny Hayes, her niece, lived there for many years.”

“Joe Webb was the last of the Webbs that lived here. He lived in the church where we used to live. You know the Webbs all moved here and built a lot of the buildings in Alpharetta, because they thought the railroad was coming down this way but it went through Duluth. When they came they brought the whole family and they built the Seventh Day Adventist Church and School. I think they had a lot of money but they lost most of it and moved away.”

“There used to be a Joe Webb Glue. He made a lot of it. It was the best glue I ever saw. You could resole your shoe with it and it wouldn’t turn loose. I think he made a lot of money on that. I don’t know what became of the glue.”

“When I was 14 to 15 years old I helped build the road from Lebanon Church to the County Line. They would put ditches on either side of the road bed to keep it from washing away. I would use a pick and shovel to dig the ditches. Horace Strickland had a pair of mules and a scoop to dig but he couldn’t get around very good and he didn’t come for a day or two. They asked him to let them use the mules for a day or two, They put the hanes on wrong and it rubbed the neck and choked the mule and I stopped them and told them to fasten the hanes on good and it wouldn’t push up on the collar, and showed them how, and told them to wash the sweat off that night and put on some axle grease and he would be alright. When Strickland heard about that, he said nobody else but James Devore could drive that team. I helped pave the road too. I drove the truck to build up the road and I drove the truck to put the asphalt down. We paved it all the way to the County Line.”

“I was in the Army Air Force. I went to Korea, Japan and all over the west coast. I never went to New York. I had a chance to once but Juliet didn’t want to fly.”

“On June Singing, we would come down to Uncle Tom’s. There would be lots of buggies and wagons, and everybody would bring lunch and all of the Mayfields would come.”

“I helped to build the Baptist Church. I helped put up the scaffolding pulled the wires up into the ceiling. We had to paint the windows in the church with aluminum paint and you had to be real careful with that kind of paint several people stopped painting after a short time. Hayes was the preacher.”