Bert loved dogs and was always trading for one. He once traded in an old Model T Ford for a Redbone hunting dog. He dog got distemper and had to be shot, so Bert had nothing for the trade. He was very handy with tools and was always making something such as boats, sheds, pick handles for the miners, cabinets, or anything of wood using axes, drawknives, saws and often pieces of windlow glass for scraping and finishing them. He made wooden sleds and sleighs for his grandsons, ones with steering built in. He also made flat bottomed row boats which he used in the river and creeks. He was also an excellant fiddle player as were sone of his brothers. He had a muzzle loading rifle and made his own ammunition of lead balls and also lead weights for fishing. He obtained the metal from picking up lead along the railroad tracks. Signal caps were attached to the rails for alerting trains of toher trains ahead and these caps had lead tape on them for attaching. After the train passed the lead tape was left lying between the rails, so Bert used to walk the tracks picking up lead. He resided in Butler Junction for 30 years and worked at the Butler Junction mine of Hick's Coal Company. He retired in 1944. He left 18 gandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren when he died.
Bert loved dogs and was always trading for one. He once traded in an old Model T Ford for a Redbone hunting dog. He dog got distemper and had to be shot, so Bert had nothing for the trade. He was very handy with tools and was always making something such as boats, sheds, pick handles for the miners, cabinets, or anything of wood using axes, drawknives, saws and often pieces of windlow glass for scraping and finishing them. He made wooden sleds and sleighs for his grandsons, ones with steering built in. He also made flat bottomed row boats which he used in the river and creeks. He was also an excellant fiddle player as were sone of his brothers. He had a muzzle loading rifle and made his own ammunition of lead balls and also lead weights for fishing. He obtained the metal from picking up lead along the railroad tracks. Signal caps were attached to the rails for alerting trains of toher trains ahead and these caps had lead tape on them for attaching. After the train passed the lead tape was left lying between the rails, so Bert used to walk the tracks picking up lead. He resided in Butler Junction for 30 years and worked at the Butler Junction mine of Hick's Coal Company. He retired in 1944. He left 18 gandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren when he died.
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