What exactly is Patten Straight? I never heard of that. Sheila

Sheila, I'll reply to both of your messages. Ashland Farm was and is the home of the Patton family. It was built by Z. Carter Patton and is located on Chattanooga Valley Road in Chattanooga Valley. As I'm originally from that area (my gr-parents and gr-grandparents lived within 1/2 mile of Ashland Farm, across from the Flintstone United Methodist Church)... the name of Patten Straight is just a local name for a section of the Chattanooga Valley Rd from the where the railroad crosses CV Rd south to Rock Creek bridge. Probably about a 2 mile section. Like I said, that is just an old local name for a section of the road. Flintstone was (at one time) just the area around Yates Bleachery. There was a post office just for that small area. Everyone else's mail who lived in the Chattanooga Valley area, came through the St. Elmo post office in Chattanooga, TN. Now if you think that wasn't confusing... try to explain to someone out of state why your home mailing address was in TN but you actually lived in GA??? Once when we were traveling (I don't remember the state we were in at the time), but daddy was stopped at a road block by officers who were checking driver's license. Gal, did he have one heck of a time trying to explain why the address on the license was in TN but the license plates on the car were GA. They just did not believe him and almost arrested him as they thought he was driving a stolen car!! I guess they finally realized with 4 small children in the back seat he was telling the truth. It was funny later but not at the time. Anyway, when the postal service closed the post office in Flintstone, it relocated about two miles away on Happy Valley Rd just between what is now Chattanooga Valley Rd (Old hwy 193) and new Hwy 193. I think there is a postal ruling that a post office must service a certain number of houses/businesses, etc. There was no where near that number in Flintstone, and, because there was so much flack about the TN addresses, when the PO relocated, everyone who was receiving their mail through St. Elmo was then put on the Flintstone route. So now, the Flintstone name is actually covering a larger area because of the mail service. Does that make sense.... and I hope I explained it okay. Growing up, I don't remember any graves being located on Ashland Farm. But it covers a lot of property and there could be. You might contact one of the members of the Patton family to ask them about it. There are Haneys connected to Misher Pryor family. I'm not sure about this and would have to check but I think Misher's wife was a Haney. Have a good week-end. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Cemetery Lookup > What exactly is Patten Straight? I never heard of that. Sheila > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >