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Hello Chip & Everyone! I like this list and everything on it. I have never been to Kentucky and the ancestors that I know have never been there either. So how else are we suppose to learn about what life was like for our farther back ancestors who did live there. Keep up the good work! Lori McPhetridge Snoqualmie, Washington

Hi Chip, I don't need this list to find my family from Union Co.and other parts of Tennessee. I was raised in Tennessee, by the way. I have found most of my family from this area, however ever now and then something comes through. It could be a spouses name or a date. I stay with this list, mainly lurking, because it is friendly, open to other subjects and like talking or hearing from family. Wow, I thought that was the whole point of Genealogy - finding and communicating with our family. If you have to move on let me know. Cuz Flo in Texas

Chip, I usually work so hard evenings and weekends on "my ancestors", answering mail from others, the last two weeks I've had a lot of "flack" from the same group or Elder's who do not seem to want their ancestor but they want mine. I sent them all copies etc and they turn up a couple of times a year. I really WELCOME this Moon Pies and RC and the things we have in common. Most of us are from the same area, it is so comfortable, I sincerely thank you for giving me this break. It helps I hope it will remain the same. Thank you and everyone else for this great exchange. You also and the members solved my problem above, I was enjoying this, I wrote a response finally and told them from now on to please contact certain libraries, and the historical society which would pertain to them. I've enjoyed all of you, many thanks. Ann Poe elderbrooks@msn.com

YEA Cynde. I am PROUD, PROUD, PROUD to call you CUZ!!!!!! You said it better than anyone ever could have said it. YOU GO, GIRL!!!! Nina

Just remembered one more "saying" that drives me insane. My sister, who lives in Shelbyville, TN, says, "I have to carry her to Nashville," instead of "driving her to Nashville." Is this common or is this just another sibling squabble over grammar between two sisters who grew up in the same house in FLORIDA, NO LESS. LOL Also, I'm still trying to find out whatever happened to the James MORTON family who was listed in the 1830 Anderson County census and lives next door to my gg-grandfather, the ever elusive David MORTON. If anyone runs into him, please let me know. Nina

Yes on the peanuts even in coke also the vanilla cokes. I think the drug store/fountain on Gay St., Knoxville was also called Coles??? If we rode a city bus in high school & had to transfer we would hang out there? We had fun? Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <Cyndej@aol.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Lights? > Hmmm. > > Well, I swanee!! I LOVE chip-chat! > > I love moon pies. And here in texas we call it R-uh Cee cola. AND we have > Ghost lights too, and did anyone else ever put peanuts in your coke before > you drank it? > > Cynde in Houston > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > Got any stories to tell? The Union County TnGenWeb Site is in search of stories about Union County Families from yesteryear. > >

Chip. There is NO UNION COUNTY mail list without YOU! I love the chit chat because we have all grown to be family on this list. Trust me, there are OTHER lists where you are monitored to the point where you don't trust yourself to even submit a query for fear of retaliation or just plain old being called stupid. Keep it like it is and please don't ever change. I'll "swanee" with the rest of you all. Nina

Chip, I grew up in the West Haven area of Knoxville, TN. No, I have never seen the "lights" off Duncan Road, but have friends who have. The witch tale is a local urban legend of West Knoxville. I do not like Moon Pies, but my dad and brother lived on them for years. My dear old grandmother loved Polmack until my dad started telling her it had alcohol in it, which I never really knew was true or not. I do know my grandmother quit drinking it. As for old sayings and E. TN vocabulary, I would like to submit the possessive personal pronoun "his'n". I am a teacher and every time I ask about a paper handed in with no name, someone will say, "Oh! It's his'n." I sure enjoy being off subject every now and then. Kathy

Ooops is right Gail, I moved to TN 27 or so yrs ago from TX.. and I had to learn lots of new words, 'you'ens' was first and formost... LOL... I now am please to be the owner of a 2nd, & 3rd, vocabulary. Around here, we don't 'I swan', we 'I declare'... And Chip, I agree with this list is the best, I too have other lists, but none like this one, even if I never find a relie on this list, I would never leave it. It's part of me now. Besides, anything that happened yesterday is ancient, so moon pies, RCs, and the lights, qualify in my book. Sorry the lady is missing out on Union County history, her loss. sandy Any of "you'ens" know? OOPS, I swan, there's another one. Gail

Hey Floyd, Have you found any new infor on the Shelby's, lately? I have a copy of "Big Valley Dave" marriage bond, if you don't already have a copy of it and are interested in having one. DeAnna Lay

Does anyone remember a grandparent calling a grocery store sack or bag, "poke"? My grandmother calls her grocery bags "paper pokes". My grandmother will also be putting her dopes in a paper poke, d'rectly. DeAnna Lay Knoxville TN

Chip just keep up the good work. We all love what you do and feel we know you. Thank goodness for the Union county list. My roots began in union county and if anyone is bored with the way we lived in the past. They surely will be bored with the future. We love you, keep up the good work. Sue

Next time yo'll come a calling bring the young'uns with ye. Young'uns are also referred to as "littluns". Either way you say it, we'll be proud to have 'em. Carolyn

Chip, wanted to say thanks for the enjoyable list. You have made us laugh, almost made us cry, but most of all we feel as if you are part of our family. Don't let one (insert colorful words here) female get to ya. Keep up the good work...we love it. Also here are a couple of words I have to try to explain at least once a week that we use in Texas quite a bit. Yonder - People always want to know where YONDER is. I tell them it ain't quite "way the heck out there" but it is farther away than "over there" Fixin - I don't know where it came from but seems all of us from Texas are "Fixin to" do something (Like Fixin to go fishin/shopping/beat me some kids butts) We are never Fixin the car...we are working on it... Thought I would pass this along so if anyone else out there felt they were the only ones who used these type words, they would know different now. Larry Burks Texas

In a message dated 9/26/99 11:29:17 AM Central Daylight Time, Cyndej@aol.com writes: << Your list is LIVING genealogy! I love it here. It's like going home and sitting around with all the folks yakking over coffee and R-uh See. Let that poor unfortunate woman go. And I hope the screen door don't hit her where the good lord done split her. >> Oh yes you put it well Cinde.

In a message dated 9/26/99 11:15:35 AM Central Daylight Time, Morom01@aol.com writes: << Well personally I think an old time meeting place in our county is genealogy related. Personally I think Moon Pies are a social icon of the southern area in which Union County rests. Therefore it is my opinion that these are relevent facts. >> Chip,I totally agree! Genealogy is more than names, if history even recent history is not of interest how boring genealogy would be. Keep up the good work. We love this list.

Right on, Cynde. I think you expressed it very well! Jan

At 07:06 PM 9/25/99 EDT, you wrote: > Rest assured, without any doubt, the cat sat on the mouse. He sends about as many e-mails as I do. > >Chip: Welcome to the club, but ain't they cute? I have two and they think my mouse is the real thing!!!!!!!! liz Liz Wendelken at Knoxville, TN <lizard@usit.net> Researching, BLACK, CRAIG, GRAVES, HEATH, LONGMIRE, STANLEY, WILSON

I think you said it all Cynde! Knowing how they lived and what they did make them more real, not just a bunch of names on a piece of paper....I belong to 6 other lists, and you are right, they are all boring, I got kicked off the Davis list for telling everyone Merry Christmas...and the list owner was one of my distant cousins! Rae Smith At 12:28 PM 09/26/1999 EDT, you wrote: >Dear Chip. > > boy are you going to get some responses to this one!! First of all let me >say that even if I didn't have a speck of Morton or Meltabarger or any other >Union County DNA, I would BEG to be on this list. Rootsweb or not. I belong >also to another list where anything other than BORRRRRING lineage lines are >forbidden. The only reason I stay on that list is to stir up their blue >blooded stiffiness once in a while. >What attracted me to Genealogy in the first place were the PEOPLE, not the >names , not the possibility of finding out that once of my Ancestors came >over on the Mayflower or whatever.. but the PEOPLE.. what did they think, >what did they do?? Why did they leave England or Prussia or whatever to >follow whatever dreams they had..I'm not putting this very well, but what I >have found is that their history is interesting to me, not as collection of >names but as a collection of people. (Dirt farmers every one! Not a blue >blood in the group thank God.) > >Your list is LIVING genealogy! I love it here. It's like going home and >sitting around with all the folks yakking over coffee and R-uh See. Let that >poor unfortunate woman go. And I hope the screen door don't hit her where >the good lord done split her. > >Love to all of y'all. > >Cynde > > >==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== >If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps. > > Rae Smith http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/Lay.html http://www.angelfire.com/de/LawDog/index.html