PEMBERTON , O.E. - LUMBERMAN DIES, of Sunbright a well-known lumber dealer and public official, died in a Knoxville Hospital. He was 51. Mr. Pemberton was a lumber dealer in Scott and Morgan Counties before his retirement. He was also Morgan County Road Supt., and a member of Scott County Court. He leaves his wife, Vivian Stuart Pemberton; daughter, Carroll Ann, Sunbright, fanther Gatewood Pemberton, Glenmary, two sisters, Delphia Walker and Ollie Dunkelberg; three brothers, Grover, Dock and Ira. Services held at Sunbright High School. (Morgan County News)

The following from "Strolling" with BERT VINCENT was related by OTIS PEMBERTON while he was in the East Tennessee Hospital. OTIS remembered the covered bridge over Wolf Creek, one mile from Glenmary.
"We used the covered bridge to run into when it rained," he said. "The bridge was covered with lumber from virgin timber. My father, GATEWOOD PEMBERTON, cut the timber and logged it. "That place used to be known as Haggimore Town. It was named for BARB HALL HAGGIMORE who came down from Cincinnati.
"OTIS laughs in remembering the first sawing this Cincinnati man had cut from that timber tract. "You see, BART HALL didn't know too much about sawing logs into lumber. So, says OTIS, the first log rolled into the saw carriage, it was about 18 feet long and as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
"He says Bart Hall got behind the carriage and sighted down the crooked log and then told his sawyer, HENRY BARGER, to move the crooked log over a little this way and then that way. HENRY BARGER did just what he was told.
"So, OTIS says, when Mr. BARGER started that saw it went right on through that crooked log, sawed the log into and about 12 feet of the whole log dropped off.
"Well, says OTIS, that was good for a big laugh from everyone but BART. After that no more crooked logs were sawed."