>>Hello Everyone, It is difficult to say how much I really enjoyed all of the wonderful stories about travelling and courting and exaggerating -- 400 lb cows,etc. << Janet,. I was not exaggerating! My GGrandfather could pick up a 400 lb yearling.. By the way, a full grown beef cow or steer weighs 800 to 1200 lbs, he couldn't lift those tho! My father knew his grandfather well and told me these stories were true.. One time GGrandpa rode with some one to Smith Creek, about five miles from home.. While down there, he bought a big bull and it was kinda' mean.. Someone said, "You've got a long way to lead that bull home". GGrandpa said, I ain't gonna lead him, I'm gonna ride him home." He climbed on the bull and Rode him Home! True Story....my Dad was there when he came riding home.. About the old traffic laws, many towns had "speed limits" and many men were brought into county courts for going too fast through town, or riding through town while drunk! Check the old court records the cases are there...... One time my grandpa was in Abingdon and the town constable told him he was going to arrest him for being drunk.. Grandpa was sitting in his buggy and when the constable told him this, grandpa reached over and grabbed his ear, gave it a hard twist and told him to drop his gun into the buggy.. Then he proceeded slowly out of town, the constable walking alongside the buggy.. When he was well outside the constables jurisdiction, he turned loose of his ear and drove on, throwing the gun out in the road a good distance away.. I have other stories.....All True!?.. I Think.......? G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.

People did ride bulls, not just in rodeo's. I have a picture postcard of my great uncle Ed Sparks, taken around 1912, sitting on a bull. Don't know how mean it was, but it sure looked mellow in the picture. Kathy Awbrey in Pleasant Hill, OR ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Lee Hearl" <glh@naxs.com> To: <VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Courting/1700s Traffic Rules -- Tickets for speeding > >>Hello Everyone, > It is difficult to say how much I really enjoyed all of the wonderful > stories > about travelling and courting and exaggerating -- 400 lb cows,etc. << > > Janet,. > I was not exaggerating! My GGrandfather could pick up a 400 lb yearling.. > By the way, a full grown beef cow or steer weighs 800 to 1200 lbs, he > couldn't lift those tho! My father knew his grandfather well and told me > these stories were true.. > One time GGrandpa rode with some one to Smith Creek, about five miles from > home.. While down there, he bought a big bull and it was kinda' mean.. > Someone said, "You've got a long way to lead that bull home". GGrandpa said, > I ain't gonna lead him, I'm gonna ride him home." He climbed on the bull and > Rode him Home! True Story....my Dad was there when he came riding home.. > > About the old traffic laws, many towns had "speed limits" and many men were > brought into county courts for going too fast through town, or riding > through town while drunk! Check the old court records the cases are > there...... > One time my grandpa was in Abingdon and the town constable told him he was > going to arrest him for being drunk.. Grandpa was sitting in his buggy and > when the constable told him this, grandpa reached over and grabbed his ear, > gave it a hard twist and told him to drop his gun into the buggy.. Then he > proceeded slowly out of town, the constable walking alongside the buggy.. > When he was well outside the constables jurisdiction, he turned loose of his > ear and drove on, throwing the gun out in the road a good distance away.. > I have other stories.....All True!?.. I Think.......? > G. Lee Hearl > Authentic Appalachian Storyteller > Abingdon, Va. > > > ==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== > VAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >