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Genealogists You Should Have in Your Circle
Google+ is a great asset if you’re interested in technology with a steady stream of posts day or night, but what if you’re interested in genealogy? Not so much. What is Google + (or Google Plus)? – Well, its everything! Its like a blog, its like…
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
While visiting Tennessee for the Pioneer reunion, I learned that one of the cemeteries where our ancestors lie was desecrated by the property owner.
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…
Life on Mill Creek, part 2
This is a part 2 of an excerpt from “Bryant, Sullivan, Gossett Family History” written by Robert Bryant. CHURCH The Little Rock Church is located 2.1 miles from where Washer Road intersects with Highway 100, and is 1.2 miles south of Wrigley. The homes of…
Life on Mill Creek
by Robert Bryant This is an excerpt from “Bryant, Sullivan, Gossett Family History” written by Robert Bryant. Mill Creek and surrounding communities, such as Rock Valley on the east; Little Rock on the west; Wrigley, Lyle, and Bon Aqua to the North;…
Old Man Davis
I mentioned a while back that one time when we were kids we were shot at. Though I said I’d tell you about it later, I thought I should share it while it was fresh in my mind. Chances are getting increasingly strong that I’d forget it. Anyway, Old Man…
What are Friends For?
My girlfriend Carol and I were very close. We were getting home late from school and we were so worried that we would get in trouble for being late that we decided to take a short cut through a junk yard. I’ll tell you right off the bat that this wasn’t my…
The Jenkins Story
by Sybil Knight Jenkins Some time before the Revolutionary War, Jacob and Jerry Jeinins, (half English and half Welsh) came to this country. The chief difference in brothers was their difference in political beliefs. Jacob was a firm believer in the separation from…
Dittys
Ever wonder why I’m so twisted? Take a gander of some of the dittys my ancestor’s passed down to me. from Gramma Glen (Agnes Glenavie Sullivan Heath) Listen! Listen! The Cat’s Pissin’ Where? Where? Under the chair. Run! Run! Get the gun! Aw, hell He’s all…
Blarney
by Karen Warren Here is a story about one of my Cassidy relatives in Kentucky a 150 years ago or so. You have to read this with an Irish accent: Seems like Mr. Cassidy was just a “wee little” man. One day 2 Indians came and attacked his house. He put up a…
Tag! You’re It!
by Jim Heath (as told to April Heath Pastis) We had the best time playing in the cemetery not too far from our house. It was actually very safe to play. You could run around without having to worry about getting out of the way of cars, like we did when we played in…
Go Wake up Your Grandma!
Told by Jim Heath (as dictated to April Heath Pastis) I loved my grandma.* My grandma’s mom, was the sweetest kindest woman who always treated me as if I was the best kid in town. One night I was awakened from my sleep and saw my grandma walk into my room. I sat…
Flagpole Hill
by James E. Bradford You won’t find Flagpole Hill of a map of Williamson County, Tennessee, located about one to one and half miles form Highway 100 on Pinewood Road. There were only a very few people that lived in the Flagpole Community at the time. They had no…
The Iviah Vivian Brown Story
My name is Iviah Vivian Brown and will try to put down some of the things that I remember about my Mother Charlotte Bradford and Father Miles Lemarion Brown. They were married February 24, 1915, in Hickman County, Tennessee by M. M. Petty, Justice of the Peace. They…
Thoughts and Memories of My Father, part 2
The Young Teamster These are some notes from Gilbert Sullivan’s memoirs as transcribed by his son Dan Sullivan Later on after the team of little blue mules I first owned, I had another pair of larger mules. The off mule (the mule on the left hitched as a team)…
Thoughts and Memories of My Father Gilbert Russell Sullivan
These are some notes from Gilbert Sullivan’s memoirs as transcribed by his son Dan Sullivan Within hours of my Father’s death I sought to be alone, and found myself in a bedroom of my parent’s home, the one away from the rest of the house, the one…
Let’s Play
Told by James Heath (retyped by April Heath Pastis) One day when we were coming home from school, we came across some kids playing in front of their house. Well like all kids would we stopped to say hi and pretty soon they asked us to come inside. So, we did of course…
Bug Eye
Told by James Heath (as dictated to April Heath Pastis) I spent a lot of nights sleeping at my grandparents house. One night, I was getting ready for bed after making myself a sandwich. Back then, we didn’t have our bread sliced and so I used a butcher knife and…
The Perfect Fishin’ Hole
by April Heath Pastis Maybe there’s something to the Scottish stereotype of being thrifty, because my mother has always appreciated a good deal. And this was a great deal. When I was about 10 years old, my mother had saved enough Blue Chip stamp books to buy my…
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…
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