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an was there. I know Uoyd Hisle an it for years." “I remember when the stage from New Market to Culpeper lsed to go through town. There was an old barn at the lower end >f town where they used to :hange horses, I. recall the old stage coaches with the seat sip front." ■
When asked if he knew how Sperryville got its name, he replied that it was for a Mr. Sperry who lived ih a house where the VFW hall is now located. The Sperry house burned about 60 years ago.
The merchants of the town did a thriving business, said Mr. Estes, in the days of the tannery which ‘operated about 40 years. “Before nay day, they say this town was a stopping place for taking cattle to market.”
Mr. Estes recalls the Rev. Barnett Grimsley as an elderly man, ‘'but still a powerful preacher.”
‘‘You see, I can remember right far back. I was born in 1863, the same year as Willie Compton’s older brother. My father, Columbus Estes, was in the Confederate army and , my mother, .Letha Ann Yates, lived in Racer Hollow at nj grandfather’s place, where I was born. Old age, like music, runs in my family: my mother lived to be 85, my grandmother 87, and Aunt Betsy'CobfpTton ~Tw8« 'was'” a" Yates) lived to be 08. My father was wounded during the War. Between the States and he died quite young, at 56.”
“When I was 30 and she only 17, I married Miss Hyde, the prettiest and sweetest girl ever born and raised in Sperryville. We lived ■ 22 years in the county and moved into town. Eight of our
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