Romance Is Alive And Well At Nichols Cut
It’s Valentines Day and an appropriate story passed down at Nichols Cut is about
a promise made to Essie Basham, James and Henrietta’s oldest daughter, many years ago. According to the story, when Essie’s
beau, Berlie Ray Smith, came courting he would always tie his horse to the same maple sapling in front of the house. To
make a long story short the romance grew. Essie and Berlie fell in love, got married, moved to Mississippi and established
a successful farming operation there.
Before moving Essie asked that her family not cut the sapling where Berlie had tied
his horse when he came to court her. The promise was made.
Essie and Berlie are gone now but the promise made to Essie many years ago is still honored at Nichols Cut. The maple, bent
and broken by age, storms and disease still stands in front of Nichols Cut and will continue to as long as it lives.
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