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08-22-2007, 07:57 AM
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That was cool Lilred, I am collecting information on my Dad's side... that would be a hoot if we were related....
Morris Hildebrand Gunn
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08-22-2007, 02:30 PM
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LOL Val....as wide as our tempers are..it wouldnt surprise me a bit iffin we were related! Mine are Wells, Anderson, Campbell and McCall....(all scots but the wells)
Billy, you are right...nobody ever took a pic smilin back then. The other thing that's funny...the pics are so small! Metal backs and all...some in paper frames. I will post more on a different thread, I never got around to scannin those pics like I wanted the other night so I still gotta do that. As fer as the house...I dont have nary a clue who that house belongs to. Some of my folks are in it. Speakin of folks..here's one of my grandma & grandpa...check out their cool ride in the back...lol
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08-22-2007, 03:35 PM
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Thats a neat photo. Looks to be a late 30's to 40's car, and it looks like a coupe or club coupe. Can't tell which brand though.
Us teenyboppers took those cars in the 50's and stuck Caddy and Olds engines in them to make hot rods. Did you notice THE taillight? Mechanical turn signals were still in the future. You actually had to stick your hand out the winder to signal for a turn. Hand down meant slow or stop, hand horizontal meant left turn, hand vertical meant right turn. You actually had to pay attention in those days. By the way, not to be disrespectful, but Grandma was a Hottie.  Best wishes, Bill
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08-22-2007, 04:45 PM
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lol Billy...grandma was beautiful in her day. Her mother was a cherokee from the western part of va...her father a scot from mtns too. Mom says her hair was the coal black. My mother's hair is (well used to be) the same way.
She died in childbirth when she was 37.
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08-22-2007, 05:17 PM
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Hey Lady
Now theres one you can 'splain to me. I thought all the Cherokees were displaced to the west. Wasn't that called "the trail of tears" if I remember from my grade school history? A history lesson from you please. And that brings to mind another question. A lot of the Southern folks that I knew in they military were of Cherokee ancestry. I just never asked any of them how that happened. Bill
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08-23-2007, 08:21 AM
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Yer correct there Billy...but...in the southwest va/northern nc mtns...there were a few who snuck by the masses. I dont know the exact number...but I do know that later on in the mid 1800's, they were granted the use of land in nc in hopes that the remaining cherokee from Tenn, VA and GA would kinda group up there and not cause no trouble.
I'm not sure if my ggggrandparents were there er not. I do know that they have been livin in the mtns of VA since at least 1900. Family stories say they hid in the mountains and never left their ancestrial home, but I have no proof of that. I give em credit fer bein hardheaded...their families survived because of them.
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