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Another Linville general store operated .in the small
town - farm tradition was a partnership of brothers,
Mr. Pink Linville and Mr. Leach Linville. Their store
was on the northeast corner of North Main and Boden-
hamer Street with their fertilizer storage house next door.
Mr. Pink Linville was a familiar figure at elections as
he was the Kernersville precinct election registrar for
nearly 50 years.
An established Kernersville name associated espec-
ially with the hardware and furniture business is "Mc-
Cuiston". In 1896 young Thomas Calvin McCuiston
started a shop for the service, repair and sale of bicycles.
After some changes in location he built, in 1903, the two
story brick building on the west side of North Main
Street near the railroad. Here he devoted the rest of his
life to hardware and related business. He called himself Home on South Main Street known as "Beth Tartan House". Built
by Rephelius Byron Kerner, (great grandson of "Joseph of Kernersville")
"Tom the Hardware Man". He was a fast and accurate on land given him by his father, Israel. House was built in 1870's and
is made of hand-made brick. Bought and remodeled by Mr. and Mrs.
worker.' He made a specialty of making tobacco barn Coy Sparks in the 1950's, Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks resides here now with
her daughter Mary Stuart.
flus and when the rush season for this item was on, he
would often work around the clock in order to service
his customers. He later bought the two story brick
building across the street where his son, Kemp, operated he went into the florist business. This makes the Mc-
a furniture store. His other son, Phil, worked in the Cuiston family a part of Kernersville business life for
hardware and furniture business until recent years when about 74 years.
In Kernersville the name "Stuart" signifies mechani-
cal things. J. R. "Mr. Bob" Stuart was a pioneer hard-
ware merchant and metal worker. He raised a large
family and some of his descendants still maintain the
family tradition of mechanical genius. His son, Ned and
grandson, Robert, operate Stuart Motor Co. His daugh-
ter, Mrs. Erie Hedgecock, as a first grade teacher, left
a lasting imprint on many generations of Kernersville
school children. A granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks,
is the "Beth Tartan" who "speaks of food" in the daily
newspapers.

Mr. Tom McCuiston standing in the door of his hardware store. The Dr. Elias Kerner's office in the yard of his home. Picture made around
store was build in 1903. The picture was made around 1915. 1904. To the right is the tobacco factory, later used for the woolen mill
where James F. Kerner manufactured blankets. It burned around 1909.
Cherry trees lined the sidewalk.

McCttiston Florist was
opened in June, 1964, by
Phil T. McCuiston and his
wife Velva. Phil was as-
sociated with his father
and brother in the hard-
ware and furniture busi-
ness which was estab-
lished in 1896 and termi-
nated after the deaths of
"Tom" C. and Kemp B.
McCuiston.

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