A favorite pastime visiting my grandmother during the 1950s was looking through her old trunk of family stuff. That probably inspired a lifelong interest in history.
At about 12 years old she gave me a tin type photo of her uncle Elijah Holder in his Confederate uniform who fought at the battle of Shiloh back in '62, 1862 that is.
The other items I still have are two old bottles used by my great grandfather JB Warren to hold powder for his musket. Some powder was still in the bottles. One bottle is a typical whiskey flash of the late 1800s, the other an interesting figural perfume of the same era. JB Warren died in 1899 from an accident plowing one day on their farm in Wayne County, TN.
Those were the first old bottles I remember seeing and obtaining thanks to the kindness of my grandmother Mary Ada Warren, herself a relic of Victorian times and one of thee finest examples of a human being I have had the privilege to know.
At about 12 years old she gave me a tin type photo of her uncle Elijah Holder in his Confederate uniform who fought at the battle of Shiloh back in '62, 1862 that is.
The other items I still have are two old bottles used by my great grandfather JB Warren to hold powder for his musket. Some powder was still in the bottles. One bottle is a typical whiskey flash of the late 1800s, the other an interesting figural perfume of the same era. JB Warren died in 1899 from an accident plowing one day on their farm in Wayne County, TN.
Those were the first old bottles I remember seeing and obtaining thanks to the kindness of my grandmother Mary Ada Warren, herself a relic of Victorian times and one of thee finest examples of a human being I have had the privilege to know.
