Stories

As a child, I loved to hear the stories told by the adults of times gone by. It didn’t occur to me then just how valuable these stories were to genealogists. This blog is a place for saving our family tales, long or short, however far fetched or valid they may...
Lampley & Oliphant Cemetery Desecrated

Lampley & Oliphant Cemetery Desecrated

Camille Wyman Allen tells of a 7-year campaign to right a wrong LAMPLEY & OLIPHANT CEMETERY 7391 Crow Cut Road, Fairview, Williamson County, Tennessee, 37062 Directions: From Highway 100 turn right onto Crow Cut Rd.  Go exactly one mile.  At the sharp...

Grandma’s Secret Recipes

Corned Beef and Cabbage My mother used to make this and every St. Patty’s Day when we came home from school we were met by this wonderful aroma filling the house. No one in my family, both loving Greek Food, will eat this. But I can still smell that...

Life on Mill Creek, part 4

This is an Part 3 of an excerpt from “Bryant, Sullivan, Gossett, Family History” written by Robert Bryant. He has made the full document available online on the Heycuz Archives. JIMMY DEAN BRYANT MEMORIES (Deany was born in 1940. He is unmarried and lives...

Life on Mill Creek, part 3

This is part 3 of an excerpt from “Bryant, Sullivan, Gossett Family History” written by Robert Bryant. My earliest memory of life on Mill Creek was playing with other children under the old house I was born in on Bluff Springs. During the 1800’s there was...