I could not remember what it looked like.Just remembered my grandfather saying to kill it you had to bury it;s head so it could not crawl back together.Wonder what the thing was doing in Al.and how he knew what t was.Ofcourse at te time I did not question.I just knew my grandfather knew everything.I made every step he died when I was very young

Probably.Her mother died when she was 7 years old but she had sister's in the 18 year old range who probably passed it down.There was 12 of those kids,Rangng in ages 22 to 3 when her mother Mary Catherine Hewlett McLain died.Mary's father William came through Tn.coming to Morgan Co.from Virgina as did her grandfather Thomas Hubbard who was in Warren Co.for a time.

Researchers, I have an interest in Mary Ellen SPRY (9 Mar 1871 - 11 Dec 1953) who married Thomas Isaiah PARKER. I have a conflict with his mother's surname. I have both Elizabeth LAMAY (12 Mar 1841 - 06 Jun 1907) and Elizabeth RAINS (12 Mar 1841 - 06 Jun 1907) buried at Gilley Hill Cemetery, Cannon County, Tennessee. Which is the correct surname? Was Elizabeth married more than once? Thanks, John at Sissom dot org John D. Sissom johnsissom@sbcglobal.net sola fida

Oh yeah, my cat used to catch those little lizards -- well, she'd catch the tail and the rest would escape. I haven't ever seen the little glass snake (lizard). I found a picture of one (from South Carolina, I think) here: http://www.christourking.org/images/glass_lizard.jpg - Heather http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ On Tue, 15 May 2007, don markum wrote: > Yes , Jess i used to see a few of them when i was a kid . Had always always been told they were joint snakes. Now that i am a little older i find they aren't snakes at all , but a lizard. > If you have ever caught a lizard by its tail it will break off , and wiggle for a minute or so.. the lizard will grow another tail Just like the legless lizard , glass snake or joint snake wehich is a lizard after all. > I am sure we didn't get in the so called hoop snake stories lol. don > > Jess Lewis <kr4oj@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I'm having a hard time buying the "Joint snake" story also.... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_snake > > > > Jess > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Cecelia, I just adore your stories. Keep 'em coming, please. Brenda ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I think I remember a story out of one of Vance Randolph's books on Ozark folklore. The tale was that a farmer discovered a joint snake and cut him up into bits. He realized that the snake would just reassemble itself and not stay dead, so he took one of the pieces away to prevent that from happening. Well, the snake tried to reassemble itself, and noticing that a piece was missing, substituted a corncob for that piece. He crawled away. - Heather http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ On Mon, 14 May 2007, m m wrote: > Have never heard of Milk Snakes.Have you ever seen or heard of a joint > snake ? I was maybe 6-7 when my PaPaw called me over to the wood pile > beside the smoke house.He showed me this snake,he called a joint snake. > He would cut it up in pieces and it would crawl > back together.Strangest thing you ever saw. > He told me the only way to kill it would be to bury it's head so it > could not crawl back together.Yelling my husband about this,some years > ago ,gave me hysterics laughter.Thought I was crazy.About 6 mys > later,they showed one on these Out Doors Type Shows, > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

When I was a teenager, I picked a big bag of poke, but I wasn't sure how to cook it, so that's where it ended. - Heather http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jess Lewis wrote: > More info on "Poke"....... > http://slidingthroughlife.blogspot.com/2006/04/poke-sallet-vadalia-onions-and.html > > > Believe it or not, you can pick up a can at your local grocery. What's the > world coming to?? > > > Jess > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks, Jess! I didn't know this song, so I listened to bits of it on iTunes, and found not only the original by Tony Joe White, but covers by Elvis, Little Milton and Sleepy LaBeef. It doesn't get much better. - Heather http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jess Lewis wrote: > It's "Salet", just like the "Grand Ole Opry" is the "Grand Ole Opry". > > Once upon a time, I heard a lady call it "The Grand Old Opera". Obviously > not from around these parts. You know, it just sounded kinda....... weird. > > Anyone recall a song from back in the 60s, called "Poke Salad Annie"? If > not, here are the words.... > http://www.geocities.com/merrystar3/allysongs/PolkSaladAnnie.htm > > Jess > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

For all "yall" that plan to return to Cannon County during the Memorial Day holiday this year, you're in luck! The earlier poke salet crop was frozen out with the "late freeze" we had during early April. The second crop is now up and growing well. There will be those who bring this delicious meal to the reunions and dinners that will be planned around this holiday. Be sure to ask about it as many folks here still prepare this nature's delight. By the time you return home, you should have at least a half dozen different recipes for preparing it. Share them with family and friends when you get back home! Poke salet can also be frozen to enjoy year round. Jess has pretty accurately described the process in his posting below. The plant stalk has also been used to make a cucumber like food and I have heard of it also being battered and fried like okra. This native plant no doubt was introduced to our settler ancestors by the Indians who developed many different ways of preparing it for consumption. The plant is poisonous, however, and the key to safely eating it is in the multiple blanchings you must put it through as it is cooked. When cooked correctly, and smothered in boiled eggs and vinegar, it is hard to beat the taste of this southern delicacy. Enjoy! Danny Nichols Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:39:53 -0500 From: "Jess Lewis" <kr4oj@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Old times there are not forgotten To: <tncannon@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <008401c79681$2c69d770$0301a8c0@JESSMAIN> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original You pick only the very young "shoots". The larger leaves are strong tasting & most folks don't like them. It is my understanding that the purple "poke berries" are actually the only poison part of the plant. Not to birds, though. They love them. Cook the "shoots" a couple of times and pour the water off. Some people cook it with eggs and make a kind of "scrambled combo". There are recipes on the internet. Some look pretty good. Jess

Gm cuz, yes that is a legless lizard, glass snake or joint snake. I think there is another one that is a little diffrent in color. To the best of my memory they get to about 18 inches or so in length.and appear to have small scales instead of a skin like a snake. don markum heather e blair <h431@uchicago.edu> wrote: Oh yeah, my cat used to catch those little lizards -- well, she'd catch the tail and the rest would escape. I haven't ever seen the little glass snake (lizard). I found a picture of one (from South Carolina, I think) here: http://www.christourking.org/images/glass_lizard.jpg - Heather http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ On Tue, 15 May 2007, don markum wrote: > Yes , Jess i used to see a few of them when i was a kid . Had always always been told they were joint snakes. Now that i am a little older i find they aren't snakes at all , but a lizard. > If you have ever caught a lizard by its tail it will break off , and wiggle for a minute or so.. the lizard will grow another tail Just like the legless lizard , glass snake or joint snake wehich is a lizard after all. > I am sure we didn't get in the so called hoop snake stories lol. don > > Jess Lewis wrote: > I'm having a hard time buying the "Joint snake" story also.... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_snake > > > > Jess > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

Thank you so very much. I'll bet she got this from her Mother. ----- Original Message ----- From: "m m" <alabamanonna@webtv.net> To: <tncannon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Posts > My grandmother Margaret Irene McLain gave me this basic 2 Egg Recipe in > 1964 when I married.She used it for every cake she cooked. > > Basic 2 Egg Cake > > 1cup melted butter > 2 Eggs > 3 cups self rising flour > 1 cup milk > 2 cups sugar > 1 talp,vanilla > > Coconut Cake > Use Basic Cake Recipe > Bake 30-35 minutes in 350 degrees oven in 2 well greased,floured round > pans > > For Icing get one fresh coconut and take a big nail & hammer the nail in > the eyes of the coconut.Drain the milk in a glass.Crack the coconut .Cut > coconut from outer shell,then peel that black inner skin off.Grade on > hand grader til fine.{ My grandmother died in 1970.My Mother & I did it > this way until 2 years ago.] Now instead of hand grating,I stick it in > the food processor. > > When cake is cool.poke holes in the layers and pour the coconut milk in > the layers. > > 7 minute Icing > > 2 cups sugar > 1/2 cup water > 3 egg whites > > Beat eggs till stiff peaks form > > Cook sugar,water, until you hold the spoon up and see a sugar hair > string from it or a small amount dropped in cup of cold water leaves a > hard ball.Pour slowly into beaten eggs beating all the time till icing > is stiff.Ice bottom layer,then put graded coconut on top.Same with top > layer.Pat coconut onto iced sides of cake.This cake freezes well.Really > is better if frozen a few days in advance. > > Orange Cake. > Use 2 Egg Recipe > > Use Icing recipe except add grated orange rind to sugar syrup before you > cook it.This makes your Icing that Orange Color.Peel an orange and take > the skin off the orange sections.Poke holes in the cake with wooden > spoon handle,Put Fresh Orange juice in the holes in the cake. > Ice cake with 7 min.Icing,.Put orange slices between layers and on top > of cake > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Gm Kevin, I was raised in warren county and can assure we have some of the stickest red clay going. lol.the area around centertown is more of a sandy soil than what nwe had to deal with in the oakland community. my g/great grand parents on mom's side lived and made molassas in and around centertown. don Kevin Morgan <retread2006@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Thanks Jess ! I am making TEa Cakes this afternoon. I have not had them in 40 years. My father was born in Centertown, Warren County. He always told me that Warren County was the only county in TN that had black dirt and not clay. Is that true?? Kevin ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.

Thanks Jess ! I am making TEa Cakes this afternoon. I have not had them in 40 years. My father was born in Centertown, Warren County. He always told me that Warren County was the only county in TN that had black dirt and not clay. Is that true?? Kevin

Yes , Jess i used to see a few of them when i was a kid . Had always always been told they were joint snakes. Now that i am a little older i find they aren't snakes at all , but a lizard. If you have ever caught a lizard by its tail it will break off , and wiggle for a minute or so.. the lizard will grow another tail Just like the legless lizard , glass snake or joint snake wehich is a lizard after all. I am sure we didn't get in the so called hoop snake stories lol. don Jess Lewis <kr4oj@bellsouth.net> wrote: I'm having a hard time buying the "Joint snake" story also.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_snake Jess ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when.

My grandmother Margaret Irene McLain gave me this basic 2 Egg Recipe in 1964 when I married.She used it for every cake she cooked. Basic 2 Egg Cake 1cup melted butter 2 Eggs 3 cups self rising flour 1 cup milk 2 cups sugar 1 talp,vanilla Coconut Cake Use Basic Cake Recipe Bake 30-35 minutes in 350 degrees oven in 2 well greased,floured round pans For Icing get one fresh coconut and take a big nail & hammer the nail in the eyes of the coconut.Drain the milk in a glass.Crack the coconut .Cut coconut from outer shell,then peel that black inner skin off.Grade on hand grader til fine.{ My grandmother died in 1970.My Mother & I did it this way until 2 years ago.] Now instead of hand grating,I stick it in the food processor. When cake is cool.poke holes in the layers and pour the coconut milk in the layers. 7 minute Icing 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup water 3 egg whites Beat eggs till stiff peaks form Cook sugar,water, until you hold the spoon up and see a sugar hair string from it or a small amount dropped in cup of cold water leaves a hard ball.Pour slowly into beaten eggs beating all the time till icing is stiff.Ice bottom layer,then put graded coconut on top.Same with top layer.Pat coconut onto iced sides of cake.This cake freezes well.Really is better if frozen a few days in advance. Orange Cake. Use 2 Egg Recipe Use Icing recipe except add grated orange rind to sugar syrup before you cook it.This makes your Icing that Orange Color.Peel an orange and take the skin off the orange sections.Poke holes in the cake with wooden spoon handle,Put Fresh Orange juice in the holes in the cake. Ice cake with 7 min.Icing,.Put orange slices between layers and on top of cake

YES THAT WOULD BE GREAT ----- Original Message ----- From: "m m" <alabamanonna@webtv.net> To: <tncannon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Posts > Did you want my Grandmothers coconut & Orange Cake recipie to ? > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Did you want my Grandmothers coconut & Orange Cake recipie to ?

Tea Cakes 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 cups flour 1 teas.vanilla Melt shortening,let cool.Mix all ingr.together.Roll out small ball shapes.mash with a fork.Let cook at 300 degrees untill lighty brown. Even though these are called Tea Cakes,I think grandaddy ate them with coffee.They are not very sweet.I do not drin tea or coffee so Idrink milk with them.

Hey promise you I am a good christian lady.Would not lie.I saw it with my own eyes.Look it up.Type in Joint Snake in your seach button.See if you find it.

Tea Cakes 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 2 eggs 1 teas.vanilla Melt shortening and let cool.Mix all ingr. together and then roll into small ball shapes. Press the top of each with a fork .Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 300 % untill lighty brown