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Lower Peach Tree native celebrates 100th
E.B. Dortch of Thomasville celebrated his 100th birthday Oct. 3. In 1903 he was born to Maggie Dortch and was raised by his grandparents Tom and Nancy Dortch in Lower Peach Tree in Wilcox County. In 1940 he married Easter Williams and they had six children. They also raised two grandchildren. The Dortch family moved to Thomasville, on the Pleasant Hill Road in 1955, where he had bought two acres of land. He farmed his land in Lower Peach Tree for many years, raising vegetables, fruit, cattle, hogs, chickens and other items normally raised on a farm. Dortch was also employed at Scotch Lumber Company in Fulton for many years. "Working and farming was hard. Many days I had to walk from Lower Peach Tree to Pleasant Hill in order to get to work. I didn’t have a truck, so I walked to work. "I haven’t minded working with the people that surrounded me. If they need money and I had the money it was theirs. If they needed something out of my garden it was theirs. if they wanted me to do some work for them, I did it in my spare time. "I tell my children I didn’t mind doing things for others, because some day someone may have to help them or my grandchildren. God is good all the time. He has blessed me through good times and hard times," Dortch said. A birthday celebration in his honor will be given at his home Saturday, Oct. 11, beginning at 2 p.m. All family and friends are invited to attend.
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