"Mill Boy"
Submitted by Kay Mason <KLMPIANO@aol.com on Apr 23, 2000

There are not any Casteel/Steele names in the Journal.  I'll send you
what there is on MARSHALL.

Grandfather was about 16 when he went to live with his half-brother,
STONEWALL JACKSON [JACK] MASON and his family.

Page 91:

    "For several years I had been 'mill boy' as I was lighter than a man -
so, with a bushel or more of shelled corn in a meal sack under me I rode a
horse to Uncle BILLY MARSHALL's water mill on the Little Fork of to 'SHINE'
GAMBILL's steam grist mill over the hill on Cain's Creek.  I remember I once
made tow trips to MARSHALL's mill in one day on WILEY LYON's little gray
mare, Dolly, and there was a snow on and it was cold and froze the mare's
tail full of ice (don't remember how she had got it wet) and when WILEY
[LYON] saw the frozen tail he was much displeased.  He liked that mare a lot.
She was almost like one of the family."

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