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that the people on his route made life enjoyable.
From his early years, he remembers forging four rivers on horseback to get over his route. Many times, he had to hold his feet practically as high as the horse’s head to keep himself and his pouch of mail dry.
Weldon delivered more than just letters cm those early rounds. Mis customers were isolated and for many, he was medicine carrier, grocery carrier, their only link with the outside maid for days, even weeks Me traveled over rough dill roads, not the paved, glut eled and ditched thorough fares of today, It was hard work, Mr. Burke recalls, hul his customers appreciated it. At Christmas, they never forgot their mail carrier, al ways leaving him a special gift for his devoted efforts,
Weldon was accustomed to effort. He recalls that as a boy on Hazel Mountain, he walked eight to ten miles during summer months to the little school house at Nethers’ Mill. In winter, a roving teacher came to Hazel Mountain to teach, Weldon remembers. This was the only formal education he ever received. But respect came his way despite his lack of hicher academic degrees. His knowledge of people, his love for his God and his kindness to the mountain folks on his route made him a legend in his own way.
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