The Turnbo Manuscripts
by Silas Claiborne Turnbo
1844-1925
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A RICH FIND OF WILD HONEY IN A PINE TREE
By S. C. Turnbo
The following story was furnished me by Peter Baughman, the pioneer hunter of Crooked Creek in the long ago.
"One day in 1858," said he, "while I and the Edmonson boys,
Jack and Sam, were hunting on Sugar Orchard Creek we discovered a colony
of wild bees in a pine tree. We had went out on a camp hunt of several days
and were provided with wagon and oxen and vessels. When we felled the tree
we took out all the honey we wanted to eat and give a portion of it to Luther
Edmondson. We took the remainder of the honey to Bellfonte and sold it by
weight. There were 136 pounds of rich honeycomb and allowing 11 pounds to
the gallon it turned out that there were more than 12 gallons to strained
honey taken out of the tree besides what we had used and give away.
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