In a message dated 4/3/2004 11:40:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, a-cope@sbcglobal.net writes: > Hello List; I been away and missed you all. > > About 60 years ago I was staying with my Grandparents Floyd and Lily Turner > on Frozen Creek at Vancleve KY. Our farm was just North of the Blanton > Bridge. I was about five years old at the time and one Sunday afternoon Grandmother > Lillie Lawson Turner told me to get my cap that we were going down to the > Puckett Cemetery, they were having a Dinner on the Ground and there would be > Preaching and Singing. It was a long walk, maybe five miles, but the Spring > Weather was cool and the time passed quickly. I asked her why we were going, I > was curious because Church things were not a normal part of our lifestyle. > She said that her Grandmother was buried at Puckett and that she wanted to go. > Being only five I never made the connection that her grandmother was my great > great grandmother. I could have gotten a five mile family history lesson but > we walked in silence. Don't get me wrong my Grandmother was as good to me as > anyone ever was and she didn't have a mean bone in her body but t! > hat day > she just wasn't thinking. Please; when you get the chance to talk to your > kids take it, they may not remember it all but I remembered that someone > important was at Puckett Cemetery and could have remembered more. > > Lily Belle Lawson was the daughter of James Lawson and Sarah Vancleve. Sarah > Vancleve was the d/o James Vancleve and Missanaar Woods, Missanaar Woods was > the d/o Washington Luke Woods and Sarah Gibbs, Sarah Gibbs was the d/o > Hannah Mason Muchmore and Revolutionary War hero John Gibbs. > > Archie Cope > Hi Archie and all, What a great story and Man O Man you said a mouth full. I will remember to talk to my granddaughter. She knows I do genealogy, but at 8 yrs old maybe its time she learned more than I did at 8. Thanks again for that wonderful story. Lynda