Ms. Hattie Bell Loller Holly Hill, South Carolina Complete Arrangements We do not own rights to any music. | Shuler-Marshall Funeral Home, Inc.

A son of tenant farmers in Holly Hill, South Carolina, Eddie Sweat spent his boyhood picking cotton, digging sweet potatoes, and harvesting corn, soybeans, and watermelons. As a teenager, Sweat would walk the 2 1/2 miles from his home to the Thoroughbred training center of Lucien Laurin. There, he dug fencepost holes and walked and groomed horses. He soon became Laurin's most trusted groom. He cleaned out stalls, rubbed alcohol on horses' legs, wrapped their legs, gave them baths, and brushed th