Hello List:.. gee, you guys sure stirred up my hunger for moonpies. My son fixes their phone system in their Chattanooga bakery. He always comes out of there with a box of pies right off the line.. soft and yummy with Dr. Pepper. I think I will call them tomorrow and complain about not getting through on the phone, they'll have to call my son.. *S* sandy..

My favorite was Orange Crush. Entered a contest they ran when I was about 10, to win a registered Cocker Spaniel puppy. I won third prize a hot dog cooker. I never drank another OC. Flo in Texas

Glad we are brightening everyone's day! The moon pie is like two big cookies with marshmallow between and all dipped in chocolate. We have them at Wal-Mart her in Texas now. My Grandchildren love them, with a Sprite. I lived in Michigan for years thought I saw them there, well look at your Wally World (Wal-Mart). Dang, I missed out on the roadkill appetizers! LOL Flo in Texas looking for an Armadillo!

Ok , I am really feeling the like the odd one out here! I have no clue as to what a moon pie is or was????? My family was originally from Union County (CApps,Haynes,Boruff) but moved to Mich. in the late 1930's. So is this moonpie thing a Tennessee orderb,kinda like the roadkill appetizer! LOL!!!! Please clue me in!!!! Thanks, Renee:-))

Chip/Sue It seems like I remember an article that was done in the Knoxville paper on Cole's store. In the article they talked about a card game that was unique to Cole's store. Apparently they made up the rules for it and used to play quite frequently. I remember passing there on my way up to my Uncle George Pierce's place above Taylor Grove Baptist Church. Do you remember the name of that card game they used to play? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: <Morom01@aol.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:34 AM Subject: Cole's Store > In a message dated 9/24/99 8:08:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, FSue31@aol.com > writes: > > << Chip there is a store in union county called Coles store. >> > > Uh Oh Bad news. Coles store, that was run by Jewell Cole, closed about a year > ago. You're right it was an interesting place. On any day you could stop by > and see old timers whittling and exchanging stories. She made a heck of a > bologna sandwich too. Round' here we call it Boloney. Sad when places like > that close. She sold Moon Pies too! > > Chip > Union County > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > Any questions or comments about the list or webpage may be addressed to Chip at union@tngenweb.org. > >

Chip, We need to tell her it is THROUGH not threw. Sometimes we use thru to be short or silly but not threw. Pam -----Original Message----- From: Morom01@aol.com <Morom01@aol.com> To: TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 4:34 PM Subject: Re: need some help >In a message dated 9/24/99 4:17:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >pgreagan@execpc.com writes: > ><< No I am not writing a book do not plan to publish > anything but I would like to add a little more than what I have. > > I know I am asking a lot but I would like some old pictures, Maynard > High School class of 1929. I am related to Johnns Graff Graves and I > would love to have a real picture, Boston and Sarah Effland threw Danial > and Sopia Clapp, Barbara Graves and Henry Sharp threw John Graves and > Sarah sharp. >> > >Folks, I just wanted to add my ten cents worth here. Pat is a fine individual >who has gone out of her way to help us at the Union County website. She has >written articles for us and donated many things including several books. She >sent us several books through the mail. Several other TngenWeb sites have >used these books and I have loaned them to every researcher in this part of >the country. > >If she says she isn't writing a book you can believe her. > >Thanks for listening to my 10 cents worth, >Chip >Union County TnGenWeb > > >==== 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. > >

In a message dated 09/24/1999 9:07:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Morom01@aol.com writes: > Get me started and I'll tell you about a revenuer who stopped by there one > day...So I'm told. > Do you need a jump-start? Spill your guts, Chip. Nina

Chip, as usual, the POLL was great fun. My parents did not have the good brains to stay in the Hills of TN, so I grew up in Florida. On our trips to Knoxville every year to visit relatives, I could look forward to RC colas and the one little pastry we did not get in Florida -- those little individual pecan pies, which I dearly loved then and still do today. My mother uses some strange phrase which I've never heard anyone but her EVER say (and about 10 years ago, I accidentally used), "Well, I'll Swannee." Isn't that the strangest phrase you've ever heard? Again, Chip, you are the BEST and this site is now and will be forever, my FAVORITE. Nina Morton T.

I moved from Tenn many years ago.. Currently, I live in a Chicago suburb. We have MOON PIES here !!!! They are as universal as dandelions. People become addicted. Even the ones who drink Grapette and Nehi.

Dear Union County folks, You sure can make a girl home sick. My name is Pat Graves Reagan and I am the daughter of Wylie clondis Graves. My Daddy along with his Brother left union County in 1929 and I do not think they ever returned. Jacob Sylvester Graves was my grandfather and he was born in 1853 and died in 1944. My grandmother was Martha Kitts and she died in 1922. I was born in 1939 and was raised by my aunts on my Mothers side in Knoxville. I am hoping there is some Young High School folks out there , I went in 1954-59. I have not been home in 15 years. I am a scrapbooker, and rubber stamper nut and I am trying to put a memory book together. Now I have three pictures. I have death certificates, marriage records and stuff like that but it needs something else. Dugh? No I am not writing a book do not plan to publish anything but I would like to add a little more than what I have. I think that it is safe to say that I can prove that all of my people came before Tenn. Became a state so I go way back and my roots are deep. Strange because I have been in Wisconsin for 35 years but I still talk, think and write like my family before me. I know I am asking a lot but I would like some old pictures, Maynard High School class of 1929. I am related to Johnns Graff Graves and I would love to have a real picture, Boston and Sarah Effland threw Danial and Sopia Clapp, Barbara Graves and Henry Sharp threw John Graves and Sarah sharp. Then spreading my wings a bit I go all the way back to the Old Peter Kitts and Sarah Wyricks and the link here is John Kitts and Barbara Monroe, bringing in the Severs and Keck. Then the early Thomas Hall of Halls Crossroads and Frakers, Gilliams. I love the old stories and the history of the people and if I could say anything to this group it would be to share more of those old stories that have been passed down for generations. I know my family traveled with them and it will help all of us that were for some reason or another were not able to hear them and know them. When going threw the old books , newspaper, genealogies, and things that I will never be able to see my self if you would just copy it and send it I would gladly pay any body for there trouble. I would especially like to have a picture of my daddy 1912-29. My grandmother Martha Kitts Graves, Margaret Kitts Monroe (married william Kitts first do not know who he was becouse he left town ) but she later married George Monroe and died in 1910. I would be most greatful. I can take a scanned picture or by snale mail. With deepest reguards Pat Graves Reagan 214 Adams St. Neenah, WI. 54956

In a message dated 9/24/99 8:55:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, stephen.pierce@worldnet.att.net writes: << Do you remember the name of that card game they used to play? >> Give me a few days but I'll remember what they called the game. Cole's store was in the Sentinel when it closed. It was also featured on the Heartland Series now featured on the Travel Channel as Appalachian Stories. Try to watch Appalachian Stories if you can get the Travel Channel, 90% of it is Union County. But the card game started out years and years ago. Two old men started playing a game with some sort of wager. Neither knew how to play the game. Neither would admit their ignorance and each started making up rules. Well, the other had no idea either so he went along with the other one's rules and vice-versa. Before long their perpetual card game turned into a game of it's own. Get me started and I'll tell you about a revenuer who stopped by there one day...So I'm told. Chip Union County TnGenWeb

I find it hard to correct anyone's spelling. Shoot with the way I spell and punctuate, it's a wonder spellchecker can figure anything I do out. Chip Union County TnGenWeb

In a message dated 9/24/99 4:17:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pgreagan@execpc.com writes: << No I am not writing a book do not plan to publish anything but I would like to add a little more than what I have. I know I am asking a lot but I would like some old pictures, Maynard High School class of 1929. I am related to Johnns Graff Graves and I would love to have a real picture, Boston and Sarah Effland threw Danial and Sopia Clapp, Barbara Graves and Henry Sharp threw John Graves and Sarah sharp. >> Folks, I just wanted to add my ten cents worth here. Pat is a fine individual who has gone out of her way to help us at the Union County website. She has written articles for us and donated many things including several books. She sent us several books through the mail. Several other TngenWeb sites have used these books and I have loaned them to every researcher in this part of the country. If she says she isn't writing a book you can believe her. Thanks for listening to my 10 cents worth, Chip Union County TnGenWeb

Anybody got any spooky or just plain scary websites for Halloween? The TnGenWeb is having an Open House and it just so happens, Union County's will fall on Halloween. I need good scary websites. Anything about Halloween or monsters or anything like that. Personal ghost stories are best! Send them to: halloween@maynardville.com Chip Union County TngenWeb P.S. Wait until you see what I'm doing for halloween on the page. PPS. For those of you who asked (only two really) we are going to have a Christmas Story list again this year. For those of you who are new, that's where I tell an odd Christmas story in installments over the Christmas Holidays. This years story? Rudolph the Nasaly Empowered Reindeer. Signups to join this mailing will be in November.

In a message dated 9/24/99 8:08:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, FSue31@aol.com writes: << Chip there is a store in union county called Coles store. >> Uh Oh Bad news. Coles store, that was run by Jewell Cole, closed about a year ago. You're right it was an interesting place. On any day you could stop by and see old timers whittling and exchanging stories. She made a heck of a bologna sandwich too. Round' here we call it Boloney. Sad when places like that close. She sold Moon Pies too! Chip Union County

In a message dated 9/24/99 12:17:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GANTX1@aol.com writes: << but my favorite after school snack was a Grapette and a bag of Lays Potato Chips. >> Never had a Grapette. We used to buy Nehi Grapes and bags of Green Onion Potato Chips. Chip

Chip there is a store in union county called Coles store. About 45 or 50 years ago we used to stop by there every trip to union county and get Grapette pop. They kept it in one of the coolers where you open the top and there was ice in the cooler. I absolutely loved stopping there.Had an occassion to stop at same store about 2 years ago . It looked same on outside and only minoe changes inside,no grapette though.We took pictures of the outside .Loved that store. Sue

Amen, to being from the Hills of Tennessee. I loved RC and Moon Pies, peanuts in my coke and later in life GooGoo's. Oh and good fiddle music. Still do! Flo Loy Sells in Texas

We left East Tennessee in the late fifties a long time before this new fangled drink but my husband says it sounded like Billie Beer to him. [ Billy Carter.] Betty Webb

Sarahjames is a little old lady who didn't know there had been a Civil War until she married and moved from the Hills of East Tennessee. She will never forget going to a Doctor who ask her if she went bare footed and had chickens in the yard. She also had to change the way she pronounced a lot of words like aggs instead of eggs, arn instead of iron and etc. My husband still shavels instead of shovels even after a degree from UT. I had a lot to overcome even without the RC and Moonpies but I am telling you East Tennessee is the most beautiful Country in the South and I have always been proud to say I was from the Hills of East Tennessee. Betty Webb