Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE OLD BRICK YARD AT KINGSTON FORTY YEARS AGO 
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THE OLD BRICK YARD AT KINGSTON FORTY YEARS AGO
	Narrator:  Robert Cox of Braymer

     Robert Cox in the spring of 1935 visited in Kingston after an absence of 
several years.  He now lives in the Braymer community in south Caldwell 
county.  He mentioned the absence of the Kingston brick yard.
     He formerly lived in the Spring Valley district near Kingston.  About 
forty years ago or more, he worked in the old Kingston brick yard helping burn 
brick.  The brick yard then was owned and run by George Wilson, who lived on 
the old George Kautz farm just north of the Thos. Edwards farm east of 
Kingston.
     Thousands of brick were burned in the kiln then and the clay was rolled 
in the red sand and gray soil that was plentiful in the hills around 
Kingston.  Jim Todd, now of Cowgill, was the moulder of the brick, and Cox 
still remembers how skillful he was in handling the moulds and how smoothly he 
levelled the tops off with a bent stick with a wire attached.  He said that in 
burning bricks, much wood was required and that was part of his job.  He cut 
and hauled many a load of wood from the timber on George Hulser place east of 
Kingston to the kiln.
     It has been years since the old brick yard at Kingston has been used.  
The one at Hamilton, operated at about the same time, likewise has long been 
gone.  The James Todd mentioned above was the son-in-law of George Snyder the 
veteran brick maker of Hamilton.  Mr. Todd and his young wife Dora Snyder Todd 
lived in a tiny house just across the road from the Snyder brick house in west 
Hamilton.
     Interview  1935.


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