Alli, thank you! If able to keep my memory, tell it as it did happen, then, hopefully, it will be of interest. I am most grateful for you and your feedback. Walk in beauty. Fran Chinquapin On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Alli :) <iamcheroke@gmail.com> wrote: > Its very interesting. > Thank you for sharing it Fran. > > Your story's would be a great "Life Story" to be passed down to your family > > -----Original Message----- > From: cherokee-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cherokee-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Fran West-Powe > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 9:10 AM > To: CHEROKEE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Cherokee Circle] work done by our folks > > For as long as Granny could remember, some of our men-folks worked for the > "guv-mint", doing tracking. The state of GA had a prison system called GA > chain gang, and it was for this branch of government that my kin/ancestors > worked as trackers. They found escaped convicts who had managed to survive > in the swamps and for this work were paid in dollars. > > Quite interesting to remember what our men did with the dollars: they dug > holes and buried them! LOL----our folks did not go into town, needed > nothing > from the town so they buried the money. It was their belief that it was > incredibly wasteful to pay with dollars as one could do nothing with it. > Now, given good knives or a flat-bottom boat; some snakes to skin, some > gators to cut up, a large fish for the village---that would have been > perceived as adequate compensation. > > One day, the guv-mint officials told my folks/ancestors they now had to use > tracking dogs, Bloodhounds, to find the escaped convicts. Seems our men > took > umbrage at this suggestion their tracking was not adequate, and there ended > their work for the guv-mint. > > Note: The above applies to our Village only; Granny was born mid-1800's, > her > Mama early 1800's, so this imparted information was not of recent > occurrence; just thought some might find it of interest. > > Fran > Chinquapin > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >