The Old Home Place...
My sister took some pictures yesterday of the old house where my dad grew up in Clear Springs, Tennessee and sent them to me. It's all run down now. He lived there with his mom, dad and 3 older brothers from when he was born in 1929 until he left home in 1948. They are all dead now.
My dad is at the left in the photo below goofing off for the camera in front of their house. Grandpa is at the center and dad's brother John is to the right. This was sometime during WWII. Dad was to young for the war but all 3 of his brothers were in the war and made it home.
My dad is at the left in the photo below goofing off for the camera in front of their house. Grandpa is at the center and dad's brother John is to the right. This was sometime during WWII. Dad was to young for the war but all 3 of his brothers were in the war and made it home.
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Reminds me of my mom?s old home place over in WV. They sold it at auction about six years ago and it?s gone down hill ever since. Make me want to cry when I see it. 0 -
Great pictures! Thanks. Did your family's ancestors live in that same area during Brown's Settlement- Watauga Settlement era? 0 -
Nice, thanks for sharing. What is up with the house? Condition looks kinda poor... Sad to see with such a nice old home.. 0 -
nice photos and history to pass along thanks smitty for sharing with us
about 30 to 35 years ago we went on a trip to Tennessee took my mom and dad ( miss them both ) to visit old family I had never met and they had not seen for 40 + years we went back to where they had lived close to when younger one of the places . nothing left all over grown we did see a set of old steps bulldozed to the side that use to go to the general store , but it was still nice to visit and hear the stories .. black diamond ,was one If I recall the name all were coal camp areas
( I did the same with my dad just him and I about a year before cancer took him , we knew he did not have long and he wanted to go back home
we looked up people he had not seen in 50 + years well as many as we could find asking the family we knew where to find and went from there
pre-internet days . so a lot of driving and asking .
I will always cherish that I was able to help him with that small request .0 -
Thanks for this post Smitty! It takes me back to home and family in a very big way!
A few years ago a few of my brothers and I got together and traveled the short distance to the old family farm homestead that was built by our great grandfather back in the late 1800's. The place had recently been put on the public market and was just about to be out of the families hands. None of us had any real reasons or resources to purchase the place, which had fallen into much disrepair but we all had a lot of memories that prompted us to go there just one last time.
We took a lot of pictures and made a very memorable day out of our get together! I was told later the place was purchased by a developer and was going to be torn down.0 -
my home place still stands and is occupied today. it looks nothing today like the picture 0 -
I've had the good fortune to visit most every place my paternal ancestors have lived since the Revolutionary War...that's a lot of places. Beginning in Orangeburg South Carolina in 1775, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. That was an education that lives in my mind everyday. In many of these places not even a country road leads to where their homes once stood, and the trails that led off from such beaten paths to where they did live has been reclaimed by mother nature, to include, their burial places. Many of these locations are on land owned by timber companies.
Along the way, I came to know well most of the surnames that made up the families of early East Tennessee. Traveling through this area and getting to meet a great many people warms my heart and brings a smile to my face. I think of them in one manner or another most everyday, too.
These pioneers represents all things good about this country. I think the pictures above and the song at the following link calls to many of us...somewhere down deep:
https://tinyurl.com/wzcut8l0 -
I hear ya kimmi about researching our past ancestors and learning where our roots came from! I have found family going back into the early 1600's where the same bloodline eventually ended up here at my great grandparents old homestead that I posted about above.
Here is a pic of the place I took back when me and my brothers made our visit. Great granddad came over from Devonshire England in the 1870's and married into a family with roots that were here in the colonies since the Mayflower. He built the place himself using the stones right out of the many fields he broke into fertile planting grounds!0 -
Brookwood: Great picture too!
My paternal line goes back to the 1600s. They were in NC before SC...but I'll have to leave this leg of historical research to the next lucky kinsman...my traveling days for this purpose looks to be over.0 -
kimi wrote:I've had the good fortune to visit most every place my paternal ancestors have lived since the Revolutionary War...that's a lot of places. Beginning in Orangeburg South Carolina in 1775, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. That was an education that lives in my mind everyday. In many of these places not even a country road leads to where their homes once stood, and the trails that led off from such beaten paths to where they did live has been reclaimed by mother nature, to include, their burial places. Many of these locations are on land owned by timber companies.
Along the way, I came to know well most of the surnames that made up the families of early East Tennessee. Traveling through this area and getting to meet a great many people warms my heart and brings a smile to my face. I think of them in one manner or another most everyday, too.
These pioneers represents all things good about this country. I think the pictures above and the song at the following link calls to many of us...somewhere down deep:
https://tinyurl.com/wzcut8l
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kimi wrote:Great pictures! Thanks. Did your family's ancestors live in that same area during Brown's Settlement- Watauga Settlement era?
They've been there since my ggggrandpa was granted the land after the Revolutionary War.
This is a picture of my gggrandpa and gggrandma Morrell on my mom's side of the family in Bristol, TN sometime around the turn of the 20th century.0 -
Cool, thanks. 0 -
Smitty500mag wrote:kimi wrote:Great pictures! Thanks. Did your family's ancestors live in that same area during Brown's Settlement- Watauga Settlement era?
They've been there since my ggggrandpa was granted the land after the Revolutionary War.
This is a picture of my gggrandpa and gggrandma Morrell on my mom's side of the family in Bristol, TN sometime around the turn of the 20th century.
That's some deep roots. Did they live at Clear Springs in McMinn, Knox, or Greene county? You really have some great pictures!!!!0 -
kimi wrote:Did they live at Clear Springs in McMinn, Knox, or Greene county?
They lived in Clear Springs just above Knoxville.0 -
Smitty500mag wrote:kimi wrote:Did they live at Clear Springs in McMinn, Knox, or Greene county?
They lived in Clear Springs just above Knoxville.
Yes, I am very familiar with this Clear Springs area in terms of genealogy research. I have documented a number of the first land owners and settlers in this area...circa 1785. One in particular had Roseberry Creek named after him...and he lived about four miles due east of the Clear Springs area. He was killed in the Cherokee Indian village of Coyatee during a treaty ordered by the president when a Captain Beard attacked the village with his militia. Talk about a lash-up...this certainly seems to be the case. Both Roseberry and Beard were surveyors as well.0
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