Comments | rhapsody_98: 2009 Is Not Shaping Up To Be A Good Year

rhapsody_98

2009 Is Not Shaping Up To Be A Good Year

Jan 10, 2009 21:19

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. ( Read more... )

geneology, family

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leenah January 11 2009, 16:53:25 UTC

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 January 12 2009, 03:25:26 UTC

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 January 12 2009, 03:38:06 UTC

well, WE might be related you know. :)

rhapsody_98 January 12 2009, 16:54:29 UTC

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

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jerel January 11 2009, 17:01:20 UTC

Close relations don't have to be the ones closest genetically.

I'm sorry about your uncle.

leenah January 12 2009, 03:40:24 UTC

don't have to be the ones closest genetically....

good thing that, 'cause my closest blood relations aren't my favorites people. not the worst people i've ever met, not at all, but most of my friends are much closer to me than the relatives.