For Over 60 Years Now...

[jdmidwest]

I always take time to enjoy a sunrise or a sunset.  I have been watching this one from home all of my life. How many on here have been able to spend a few nights in the same room they came to as a baby?  This farm was platted to a distant forefather in the Missouri 1821 Plat Book, making it over 200 years of the same bloodline.

Venus in conjunction with a sliver moon as storm clouds clear.  It's going to be a wonderful day.

 

[jdmidwest]

Artifacts on wall are my Granny's tack hammer, a board from a barn we tore down in the 70's with great great Grandpa Hamp and 1883.  Dad's school chalkboard and turkey bell he wore around his neck so Granny could keep track of him wandering the hillside.

 

[jdmidwest]

Artifacts in back yard, a cabin that was moved up from field to the current house place.  We tore down original one and built current one in 1961 on same site.  There have been 4 houses on farm.  The house that Dad was raised in burned down, it was up the hill to the north and still has original barn by it.

[jdmidwest]

My family was a pioneering bunch. Maternal side of family original farm was registered in the same Plat book of 1821 just south of Old Greenville in the St Francois River bottom.  They were forced off their land when they dammed lake Wappappello and resettled in another part of Wayne County on a farm we still own.  I still fish around the old place.  The fields are fully treed out now except the area around the old house place.  That side of family moved there late 1700's from eastern Tn originating from Ireland.

Paternal side came from KY somewhere best we can tell, but the records were pretty slim.

There is Cherokee Indian in maternal side from the result of forefather taking a Cherokee bride in Tn.

[Foghorn]

Very interesting . Thanks for sharing. Wife's family were some of the earliest settlers in Belleview valley on both the maternal and paternal sides of her family. Mine were late to the show and settled on land North of Johnson's Shut Ins.

[jdmidwest]

I have been fortunate to have a great oral history thru the years.  We received a box of photos from a family member on the inlaw side.  Many were so old, nobody knows who they were.  Funny thing, nobody wrote on them, anything to help.

The future will have to decrypt the cell phones in the closets with old photos that were never printed.