Hi all, I have ancestor that ran Moonshine as you call it. Starting in 1860 through the Civil War. They made a lot of money on the Union Troops (tried to poison a few along the way). Horace started it as I am told and from there several other members of the the family engaged. They were in and out of the business until the 1940-1950s. Our most active period was during the Civil War. I have to check with members of the family as to how much I can relate and how much detailed. Our family never was really stopped or was caught. The just stopped because the money was not as good and Revenuers (tax revenuers) was really putting the pressure on. I have give you some information and will supply more detail in short stories. I don't live there now and have to remember and ask mom about the stories. I want to get them right and not tell on anybody. I can remember at age of 12 running a hauler up and down the back roads testing them. My uncles built some cars for fast running. The roads were narrow and winding some gravel some black top. You could hear us coming for 2 miles in the middle of the night. I use to sneak out of G-parents house and go down to the garages on my bicycle. More late ..... TTYL Dwight Stipes ---------- > From: KAT3946429@aol.com > To: TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Moonshine > Date: October 05, 1999 2:44 PM > > Just read this on another TN site and I'm forwarding to all of you since > Union County has plenty of experience sharing stories. Don't know if anyone > knew anyone who was involved in this, but if you do, you might contact this > lady. In fact, I'd like to know the answer to this also. History, you know. > LOL Nina > > Subj: [TNGREENE-L] Re: Moonshine Industry in East Tennessee? > Date: 10/5/99 1:05:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: dasha@unet.com.mk (Douglas/Ungaro) > To: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > > Can someone share any stories about the trade in "bootleg liquor" in the > old days? Was this big in east Tennessee and nearby? Did people get some > income this way? Were there "revenuers"? > > I've only seen things in the movies or on t.v., and would like to hear > from people who really know. > > Thank you, Marian > > > > > ==== TNGREENE Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to submit transcriptions of Wills, Deeds, > and Family Bible pages. Check out the Greene County > Research Helps page for details: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngreene/greehelp.htm > > > > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- > Return-Path: <TNGREENE-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Received: from rly-yh02.mx.aol.com (rly-yh02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.34]) > by air-yh01.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:05:46 -0400 > Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by > rly-yh02.mx.aol.com (v61.13) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:05:33 -0400 > Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA22588; > Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:03:18 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:03:18 -0700 (PDT) > Message-ID: <024a01bf0f53$e8498de0$89410dd4@anhoch> > From: "Douglas/Ungaro" <dasha@unet.com.mk> > Old-To: <TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:46:35 +0200 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > Subject: [TNGREENE-L] Re: Moonshine Industry in East Tennessee? > Resent-Message-ID: <rXy62.A.igF.V9i-3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> > To: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2815 > X-Loop: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: TNGREENE-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. > Send a message to TNUNION-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe