Additions to Tommy's Visit

This is from Bob Williams, the gentleman who cleaned up the Myatt cemetery.

Let me give you a bit of information to add to Tommy's visit that he had to Panther Lake (Myatt's Mill Pond area. I am the individual from Chapel Hill to whom he owes the money (which I will talk to him about sometime). The name is Robert Williams.

I have to do some more investigating to find the Walter Myatt for whom the road is named. The critical thing is that the father of Amelia Myatt, who married Turner Smith who lived in the house being restored, was named William Alfred Myatt.

He married Amelia Rand and two of their children Amelia and Mary Pherabe (my great grandmother) married brothers Turner and Henderson Frank Smith (my great grandfather).

Their father, William, gave them identical houses, the one in the Blog for Amelia and its mate about 400 yards due east for Mary Pherabe. That one has been restored by a gentleman named Fish.

The mill was owned for a time by my Mary Pherabe and Henderson Frank. He was a millwright and rebuilt the dam when it washed out around the turn of the last century. Their son (my grandfather) Alfred Myatt Smith ran the mill for a time and did the grinding.

It is interesting that the pecan trees were mentioned. The William Alfred Myatt homeplace was in the area of the Myatt Mill Farms and he planted on both sides of the raod from his home to the millpond pecan trees. So there were a lot of those trees in the area and probably spread naturally over a large area. Now there are only a few along the road.

Tommy, I will contact you soon and we can chat and/or visit the area
together.

Bob Williams