ENTuesday, July 17, 1923
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A good day. The men
worked on their tobacco
until dinner. Then Jim
and Ben and Mr. Booker
went to Mr. Elleck
Hutchensons to get up
rock for their flues.
They went on Mr. Booker's
car. Kate Harvey and
Virginia Thomson was
here this evening. Irvin
brought them and come
for them. The children
and I was fixing to go to
see Kate and Virginia.
I was glad that
they come. We would of
had to walk.
Ben and Henry and Edna has
gone to Cedar Forest
to night. I wish I
could get to go some
where and time to
enjoy going. Work work
work work
and stay at home.
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The flues mentioned here should be the ones in the tobacco curing barns. I have not looked at one in decades but these where sort of long closed fireboxes in which saplings were burned to provide heat to cure the tobacco. I don't know how they sealed the gaps between the rocks. Fires in these barns was always a problem. I did not see the Hutchenson mentioned in the people information and so far I have not found him in census records.
There were always Hutchersons on the farms to the north of the Brumfield place Julia's writing from, and in fact still are. They're mostly off of Straightstone road, and I believe have a road with a "Hutcherson Road" sign on it which used to connect to the Brumfield place from the north. That farm has a lot of huge boulders formed by magma plumes created about 200M years ago, which are isolated among otherwise-sandy soil. Perhaps they were getting some of the rock from those? It wouldn't make sense to haul big rocks a long way, but there were also some of the same formations on the Brumfield farm and the Layne place to the southeast which I'd expect would be closer.
I agree with you that the name looks like "Elleck" -- it's not one I've encountered before.