STANLY COUNTY, NC - HOFFMAN - A Visit from Uncle Cicero
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From the notebook of Lilly Carter Hoffman:
(1956)
 
In Nov, 1916, John( Daniel?) Cicero Efird of Copperas Cove, Texas about 10 
miles from Ft. Worth, east on the Dallas Pike, visited his closest relatives 
in North Carolina. He spent several days and nights in the home of my mother, 
Elizabeth Carter who was his niece-a daughter of his sister Mary Ann Catherine 
Efird Coble. I remember this visit quite well. He was very interesting to talk 
with. He told me that he was then about 80 years old and I suppose he was born 
in 1836. He had been a Confederate Soldier. He had come alone on the train 
from Dallas or Copperas Cove. The ticket agent there made out his ticket to 
Salisbury, NC, just a few miles from China Grove where his brother Martin 
Efird lived.
The train ordinarily didn't stop at China Grove but for some reason it stopped 
that time to let passengers off . Uncle Cicero started to get off, but the 
Conductor stopped him and told him that his ticket called for Salisbury and 
that was where he was going. Uncle Cicero laughed about it and said he felt 
the Conductor was afriad to let him off...probably the old man just wasn't all 
there.
 Uncle Cicero's hair was snowy white and he was tall and very slender-a very 
nice lookng old gentleman. Uncle Cicero caught the next train leaving 
Salisbury that stopped at China Grove and from there he visited the rest of us 
without an escort.John S. Efird of Efird Mfg. Co had him make a speech in the 
Efird School and he made a good one.
 
 
Submitted By Jodie Gee