Zero and Daze This photo of my great-uncle Zero McNeilly depicts how he lived most every day during the early to mid-1900s. He is hitching up his ol’ mule Daze for another day’s plowing. Zero lived and farmed near Casar, N.C. He lived poor, as did most people then, plowing the fields and growing corn, cotton and vegetables. He cut lumber with a steam engine and built sleds with side planks for hitching behind mules to haul things. Zero also rode Daze to get around to neighbors or into town. I can walk to his home place from my home. I often think about what life was like for him and his family, living in a log house with the springhouse out back. Just about every day I go by what we still call the Zero Bottoms, a wooded area now that was once a field where Uncle Zero plowed and worked. Danny McNeilly |
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