A Fella i Never Met

[glass man]

COOL ERIC!
MY DAD DID NOT LIKE ME LOOKING INTO HIS SIDE OF THE FAMILY TOO MUCH,CAUSE HIS MOM WAS UNMARRIED WHEN SHE HAD HIM[IN 1919,A REAL BIG SIGMA BACK THEN FOR A POOR KID BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK!] SHE HAD HIM IN A CHATTANOOGA TENN. HOSPITAL AND ABANDONED HIM THERE! SHE DID LEAVE THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF HIS GRANDPARENTS,WHO GOT THE CALL AND WENT AND GOT HIM! HIS MOM DIED IN 1921 AND PAPA NEVER SPOKE OF HER! HIS GRANDAD DIED IN 1922,HE HAD ADOPTED DAD[HE ALSO HAD BEEN ADOPTED AS WAS HIS DAD! MY DAD WAS ADOPTED,SO WAS HIS GRAND DAD AND HIS GREAT GRAND DAD! SO I DON'T KNOW WHO THE HELL I AM ON THAT SIDE OF THE FAMILY! DO KNOW MY GRANDAD ON MOMS SIDE WAS A SARGENT IN THE CIVIL WAR,A CONFEDERATE.AND WAS SHERIFF OF LEE CO.ALABAMA AND RUMOR HAS IT MY MOMS DAD WAS BORN IN JAIL ,WHERE HE SPENT A GOOD DEAL OF HIS LIFE FOR ONE DRUNKEN INCIDENT AFTER ANOTHER,YET HELD DOWN A FORMAN JOB IN DIFFERENT COTTON MILLS AND RETIRED FROM IT.HE DIDN'T CONSIDER DRINKING BEER ,DRINKING!COULD DRINK ALL NIGHT AND EAT A BIG BREAKFEST THE NEXT MORNING AND THEN GO TO WORK! KILLED HIM AT 86 YEARS OLD! COURSE HE HAD QUIT DRINKING IN HIS SIXTIES. STARTED WORKING IN THE COTTEN MILL AT 5 YEARS OLD IN 1895. ONE OF THE MEANEST SOBS I HAVE EVER KNOWN!]] BACK TO DAD. SO POP WAS RAISED BY A UNCARING GRANDMOM AND SORRY UNCLE/BROTHERS!
HE SURE TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT MAN IN SPITE OF ALL THIS!
HIS GREATGRAND PARENTS WERE WELL OFF . THE GREATGRAND MOM STARTED A BAPTIST CHURCH AND HIS GREATGRAND DAD STARTED A METHODIST CHURCH RIGHT ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER. DAD SAID HE HAD TO GO TO ONE CHURCH ONE SUNDAY AND THE OTHER THE NEXT SUNDAY. BOTH CHURCHES ARE STILL GOING TODAY.
MY DAD LIKED TO SAY NOT TO LOOK TO CLOSE AT YOUR FAMILY TREE CAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE THE MONKEY LOOKING BACK AT YOU![]
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR ENDEVERS! [&:] JAMIE

 

[pyshodoodle]

You Mayflower boys need to exchange info and see if you're related! Let us know! That would be cool!

Eric - I love the yearbook picture. Did you find that online? Old yearbooks are so cool. I looked up my neighbor at the library.. he's in his 90s now. They had all sorts of interesting insites into each person's personality. It was actually kind of weird for me, as I knew quite a few of the people in the old yearbooks since my parents wrote the local history book during the Bicentennial. I suggested they go to the library to look at the yearbooks, but I don't think they did.

 

[glass man]

ERIC:BUZZY IS A GREAT NICKNAME! WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? "TOUGH" IS A WORD I KNOW WELL TOO MY POP USED TO SAY THAT ALOT,BUT HE USUALLY ADDED A WORD TO IT "TOUGH T$#TY" ! USUALLY GOT THAT WHEN I SAID SOMETHING LIKE "I SURE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE NEW BEATLE RECORD,OR AN ELECTRIC GUITAR"![][] HE ALSO LOVED TO SAY "CRY IN ONE HAND AND SHI$ IN THE OTHER AND SEE WHICH ONE GETS FULL FIRST",OR "YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH FOR YOUR WANTS NOT TO HURT YOU"! HEY HE WAS NOT BEING MEAN WE DIDN'T HAVE ALOT OF MONEY AND HE HAD NOBODY TAKING CARE OF HIM MUCH WHEN HE WAS LITTLE! IT DIDN'T KILL ME! I THINK MANY KIDS GET WAY TO MUCH NOW DAYS AND SOME OF THOSE OLD SAYINGS WOULD BE GOOD FOR THEM! WAS A TIME I COULD HAVE BEEN CALLED "BUZZY",SURE NOT THE REASONS HE WAS THOUGH![8D] JAMIE

 

[Just Dig it]

Jamie. Its from the 1963 Plymouth High School Yearbook. he was Born In 1945. Iwas gonna go to the cemetary today But Its Raining Cats and Dogs...Ktbi.Its wicked cool of you to do that for your family im sure they are wicked excited
(Im aware Wicked is a mass word..still gonna use it)[]
Canya.i think thats an Awesome story.He could have been anyone..sometimes thats better then a name in stone[]

You all really cheered me up about it ..at first i was bummed i cant really ever know him now im happy i can share the liuttle i do know with you...Thanks Guys

 

[ktbi]

CanYaDigIt (Aaron) and I met at Downieville and traded some bottles. Will have to get together again and compare 'Mayflower' notes. I think family history is very interesting. My wife and I are going to Scotland next year (I hope) and maybe look up some old relatives. I lived in Scotland for 4 years back in the late 70's and wish I had known then...Ron

 

[glass man]

ERIC:1963 SOUNDS RIGHT FOR THE KIND OF LINGO GIVEN UNDER HIS PICTURE! MY OLDER SISTER GRADUATED IN 1964 AND THE SAME KINDA THINGS ARE IN HER YEAR BOOK!
I DO KNOW MY DADS GREAT GRANDA MOM WAS A GALLAWAY AND ADOPTED A GALLAWAY [MAYBE HER BROTHER BEST WE CAN TELL] SO I KNOW I DO HAVE GALLAWAY BLOOD AND IT IS SCOTTISH . THERE IS A GALLAWAY SCOTLAND.
NINA ON HER DAD'S SIDE IS CHOCTAW INDIAN-SCOTTISH JEWISH[WHAT A COMBO!] FROM THE SAND MOUNTAIN AREA OF ALABAMA!I WAS EXCITED TO FIND OUT SHE COULD CARE LESS. IN AN OLD TRUNK WAS FOUND SOME TIN TYPES OF LADIES THAT DEFINITLY LOOK INDIAN . THEY WERE DRESSES IN ANTIBELLUM LIKE DRESSES!
I HAVE ASKED NINA IF SHE KNOWS WHO GOT THEM AND SHE SAYS SHE DON'T KNOW AND DON'T CARE!
SOME JUST AIN'T INTO GENEOLOGY! JAMIE

 

[Just Dig it]

tin types are great i had one in a hand carved wooden case with a woman In a dress playing a guitar..My grandfather said it reminded him of my grandmother so i gave him it.

I cant Help but feel Like theres much more to me.Might just be the cherokee in me .but i constantly want to just live off the land. i have no real..shall i say aspirations? in this society.Granted i have a daughter and a beautiful girlfriend..i know shed go with me Give me land id gladly farm it fish it and build my own dwelling
Get some canning tips from woody and im all good...