roflOL where is that cemetery located? ----- Original Message ----- From: bill To: tnmarion@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [TNMARION] need help with a mystery Praises be...I wasn't hallucinating. As I recall no one seemed to know the complete story. There were two theories. One was that the wife so loved her deceased husband that she wanted him to be able to watch all his favorite TV shows. The other was that the wife thought that was all her husband did while alive and wasn't going to let him rest in peace. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: <dennylambert@bellsouth.net> To: <tnmarion@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [TNMARION] need help with a mystery > I remember the grave marker with the television entenna erected beside it and wire running back towards the nearby church. My dad took a photo of it thinking it was strange. It kind of looked like maybe there was a tv in the grave and the deceased was wathcing it. I have that photo here somewhere. It could easily be seen from I-24 when driving towards Martin Springs from Kimball. > > Dennis Lambert > -------------- Original message from "bill" <wmcconne@bellsouth.net>: -------------- > > > > Exit 143 is the one where Ladds cove road now joins Hwy #2 and crosses the > > interstate. So the church in question is 5 miles south of this exit and 4 > > miles north of the Kimball exit. To me that is where Ebenezer is located. I > > think it was originally Cumberland Presbyterian but it seems like various > > Southern Baptist organizations used it last. > > > > Now if it is Ebenezer I have another mystery. This is something I remember > > and some say that I dreamed it. But as a child I remember a power line going > > into one of the graves in a little cemetery there. The grave also had a TV > > antenna on it. Does anybody else remember that or was it a childhood > > fantasy? > > > > I also note in the picture something that makes no sense to me as an old > > telephone man. The power pole has two insulators that go out several feet on > > the hot lines. From these lines it appears that two drops come down into the > > telephone cable splice box. I have never seen or heard of any such > > arrangement. > > > > Bill Mc > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "bill" > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [TNMARION] need help with a mystery > > > > > > > OK somebody asked about this the other day on another board. I couldn't > > find > > > a map with the mileage markers but Kimball (Dixie Lee Junction for those > > who > > > remember) should be 152 so exit 148 would put it about 4 miles north or > > > about where Ebenezer Church is at Smithtown. > > > > > > Bill Mc > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: > > > To: > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:15 PM > > > Subject: Re: [TNMARION] need help with a mystery > > > > > > > > > > Misty says: "The only info I was given was it is off of mile marker 148 > > > off of I 24. My husband( fireman & paramedic) told me it was the Kimball > > > Exit." > > > > and there is one at the start of Kelly's Cove too-- This one looks > > like > > > it is not in use though and there appears to be some buildings beside > > > it-- perhaps being built? Which would leave out my two guess, what > > about > > > your guess? > > > > I think we need the date or even year the picture was taken-- and > > > notice that it appears as if it faces east or west depending what time > > of > > > day it was taken, as the sun is shining on it and the sun doesn't appear > > to > > > be very high in the sky---- > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: bill > > > > To: tnmarion@rootsweb.com > > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:11 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [TNMARION] need help with a mystery > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you going to give any clues? What part of the county is this in? I > > > only > > > > am familar with a small part of Marion and if it was from the Battle > > > Creek > > > > area I would guess Ebeneezer at Smithtown. I think there's also one > > near > > > > Martin Springs that looks a little like that (or at least it used to.) > > > > > > > > Bill Mc > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: > > > > To: "TnMarion list" > > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:17 PM > > > > Subject: [TNMARION] need help with a mystery > > > > > > > > > > > > > Misty has a mystery and she thought perhaps some of us could > > help > > > > her-- Iley has put the picture up at > > > > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnmario2/ukchurmari.html > > > > > It is of a church-- I thought at first glance it was the > > Primitive > > > > Baptist Church located in Swedens Cove, but at second glance that > > looks > > > > like buildings beside it-- To my knowledge that would eliminate that > > > > church. 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