This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------348249E8F57980F8E63ED9DF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Phyllis Grissom wrote: > > O my no they carried on all through the War Between the States. > Old Knute lived to a ripe old age. Hollywood did a movie about it shortly > after WWII. It was called "Tap Roots" A lot of folks around here are > descendants of some of Knutes cohorts. The Grissoms all joined the > Confederate Forces, however. Jones County calls itself the Free state of > Jones to this day. I believe there were a few other counties in other States > that did similar things. Phyllis Grissom > ----- Original Message ----- Didn't James Street write a novel by that name and on that subject? I think I read it back in the '40's. Jim Blease --------------348249E8F57980F8E63ED9DF Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="leds.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Jim Blease Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="leds.vcf" begin:vcard n:; x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 end:vcard --------------348249E8F57980F8E63ED9DF--
The movie was based on james Street's novel. James Street was a baptist preacher in Laurel Jones County Ms. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Blease" <leds@datasys.net> To: <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re: 'junk' and other things... > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------348249E8F57980F8E63ED9DF > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Phyllis Grissom wrote: > > > > O my no they carried on all through the War Between the States. > > Old Knute lived to a ripe old age. Hollywood did a movie about it shortly > > after WWII. It was called "Tap Roots" A lot of folks around here are > > descendants of some of Knutes cohorts. The Grissoms all joined the > > Confederate Forces, however. Jones County calls itself the Free state of > > Jones to this day. I believe there were a few other counties in other States > > that did similar things. Phyllis Grissom > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Didn't James Street write a novel by that name and on that subject? I > think I read it back in the '40's. > > Jim Blease > --------------348249E8F57980F8E63ED9DF > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; > name="leds.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: Card for Jim Blease > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="leds.vcf" > > begin:vcard > n:; > x-mozilla-html:FALSE > adr:;;;;;; > version:2.1 > end:vcard > > --------------348249E8F57980F8E63ED9DF-- > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >