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Haywood County Line: June 2015
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Throwing in my two southern cents on the Confederate flag. My grandparent's farm in Haywood County. I'm a Southerner and I love all things related to West Tennessee. If you ask me what symbols represent home, my mind immediately goes to family, cotton fields, cicadas on a miserably hot summer afternoon, the blues, the smell of watermelon on my grandparent's back porch and yes, Elvis. Is no longer funny to me. Despite the old adage ...
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Haywood County Line: History of the Church in the Grove of Holly Trees
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Sunday, October 2, 2011. History of the Church in the Grove of Holly Trees. Children of Holly Grove Baptist Church, early 1940s. I found this photo of a group of kids at Holly Grove Baptist Church in Haywood County, TN in the early 1940s at my parents house a few weeks ago. It's really hard to identify people but I am pretty certain I spotted my grandmother, Elizabeth Castellaw Williams. Likely Elizabeth Williams and Jesse Earl Williams. The closest church...
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Haywood County Line: October 2014
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Monday, October 13, 2014. More old photos from Haywood County. Charles Steele, Roy Jr. Simpson, Blondell Taylor, Maurice Earl Steele. Gene Smith, Mary Grace Kerr Edwwards, Betty Castellaw Ross. Marian Booth Warren, Maxine Lovelace Stewart, Evelyn Castellaw,. Mable Duffy (possibly), Jesse Thomas White and Bobby or. Billy Waddell (they were twins). I've added the names of those who have been identified. If you know any of the others, please email me. The pho...
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Haywood County Line: The life and death of Will Mathis
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Sunday, August 9, 2015. The life and death of Will Mathis. My brother-in-law, Alan, recently shared with me a document he found in some of his Mississippi grandmother’s belongings. In great shape other than a few torn and folded edges, this first person account of a man named Will Mathis appeared to have been typed more than 100 years ago. As it turned out, this Mathis guy had quite the story to tell. The scene was appalling. Brave men were moved to te...
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Haywood County Line: Throwing in my two southern cents on the Confederate flag
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Throwing in my two southern cents on the Confederate flag. My grandparent's farm in Haywood County. I'm a Southerner and I love all things related to West Tennessee. If you ask me what symbols represent home, my mind immediately goes to family, cotton fields, cicadas on a miserably hot summer afternoon, the blues, the smell of watermelon on my grandparent's back porch and yes, Elvis. Is no longer funny to me. Despite the old adage ...
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Haywood County Line: February 2015
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Iva McElroy, my wife's great-grandmother. I usually blog about my adventures while researching my own genealogy, but for a long time I've been wanting to begin looking into the ancestry of my wife Michelle. Since we were snowed in this weekend, it gave me time to scan the negatives and upload them to this Flickr gallery. Iva Ann Griffith was born June 27, 1900 in Cambridge, Nebraska. According to the 1900 census, taken a few ...
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Haywood County Line: Never-before-seen photos of Hiram Bradford family cemetery
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Saturday, April 25, 2015. Never-before-seen photos of Hiram Bradford family cemetery. Likely descendants of Hiram Bradford taken at. The Old Bradford Place," Sept. 1924. I love it when technology allows complete strangers to work together to solve puzzles relating to individuals who died decades ago. I recently wrote about the above photo. Olds and his cousin, Rodney Reynolds, were turkey hunting about four miles. Headstone of Hiram Bradford. On a genealog...
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Haywood County Line: December 2014
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Ridley Wills, Haywood County Fugitive. In the early 1920s, a group of fifteen or so writers, poets and literary scholars who were students and faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, came together and, without meaning to, created what became a literary movement. Eventually, the goal of the Fugitives. Video: In the early 20th century, a coterie of poets. Gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, determined. Ridley Wil...
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Haywood County Line: March 2015
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Sunday, March 22, 2015. Will and Eva Overton Williams of Haywood County, Tennessee. Photo/Mary S. Williams. Will and Eva Williams. I never knew my paternal great-grandfather, William Lafayette "Will" Williams (Feb. 13, 1888 - April 1, 1962) because he died the year before I was born. Will Williams and his son, Bo Williams, around the same age. And looking remarkably similar. Living next door to George and Estelle Williams were George's brother and his wife...
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Haywood County Line: Book: A Year in the Life of the South 1865
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The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Friday, April 3, 2015. Book: A Year in the Life of the South 1865. I've long been fascinated by the the years immediately following the Civil War and how it impacted the lives of my West Tennessee ancestors. President Lincoln is Dead: The New York Herald Reports the Assassination. The museum where I get to work every day, the Newseum. Is marking the anniversary with an amazing exhibit. Until someone in my family unearths a hidden chest containing a Civil W...
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