2009 Is Not Shaping Up To Be A Good Year

[rhapsody_98]

When my grandfather's father was a boy, his mother died in childbirth. Unable to care for Papaw John and his brothers, Grandfather Horace sent the boys to his brothers house, in Athens, TN. They were raised there for six years or more, and attended Pond Hill Baptist Church every Sunday. Grandma Sarah and the baby are buried in that cemetery.

Comments

[leenah]

i adore hearing about your family history. :)

best wishes dear! people pass, but if we remember them, they aren't gone.

you said 'moved up north a bit' and i thought 'boston MA!' and then you said bristol. HA HA HA!!!!

[rhapsody_98]

LOL! Our branch was the first to move so far north since they left Virginia in, oh, 1790, somewhere around there. LOL! Even today, most of the family is in Athens, Texas, or Atlanta. I'm sure there's someone farther North than us, but I don't know them by name. heheh

[leenah]

well, WE might be related you know. :)

[rhapsody_98]

You're from my grandmothers side of the family, the Reagans and the Webbs from Cades Cove and Gatlinburg. This is from my grandfather family, the Monroe's from Athens TN. =D

[leenah]

darn. i wanted to be related to a monroe.

[rhapsody_98]

http://rhapsody-98.livejournal.com/55962.html

There's the story of the Reagans. :)