Compiled Service Records of My Confederate Ancestors

by Charlton Queen Anglin, John W.—3rd Sgt. Thedford’s Co. 11th Regt. Tenn Vols on 5/25/1861 at Nashville for 1 yr. Age at enlistment: 25. Present on roll 8/15/1861. Present on roll 8/1/1861-10/1/1861. 9/1861 on sick furlough since 9/4/1861. 11/1861 on...

Love is In the Air

Contributed by April Heath Pastis Steve’s great aunt, who speaks in broken Greek-lish (a mixture of Greek and English), told me a lovely story about how her mother married her father when he “crashed” the wedding. Back in 1880 in Greece, they still...

Not From Middle Tennessee

The Truth about the “Trail of Tears” by James E. Bradford When Kathy and I moved to Knox County, Tennessee, in the Community of Concord, we very quickly found out that being from Middle Tennessee was not a thing that one talked about. It was hard for us to...

Jimmy? Who Are You Talking to?

told by James Heath (as told to April Heath Pastis) After your mom and me got married we lived with mom’s mom for a short 
time in a house on Avenue A. We stayed up in the second floor and we 
didn’t have much furniture at all. In fact, I think we were...

The Dinner Guest

told by Donna Heath (as told to April Heath Pastis) I had the most beautiful dog when I was a kid. It was part Pekinese and part Terrier. It was golden with long, soft beautiful hair. I called her Pug, even though I didn’t know anything about Pugs then, but...