David...there was an old Cress store with a big glass front on rte. 23..about 400 ft. from the Bell Ave intersection in town limits of Appalachia....I know this because I was run over by a man on a bicycle in 1933 and knocked unconcious in front of the store..The store may still be standing today..was this Cress in your line? Ole Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

Vadna, speaking of potatoes, my Dad was so frugal that when my Mom peeled potatoes, he fussed that she was peeling the peelings too thick and by so doing, was wasting potatoes...when we were kids, (even small ones)Dad would gather up the whole family and we would go into the hills to pick huckleberries..he made us wrap our legs with old rags and put turpentine on the rags to keep away rattlesnakes..we would pick about half of a day, and when we came home, we emptied the berries into a no. 2 washtub and it would be running over with berries..those hucklebrries grew on bushes so high, we would have to pull them down to pick them..Big, black, and sweet as could be. My dad had a "last and stand" for mending shoes and he half-soled all our shoes.he would not let us sharpen our pencils in the sharpener at school, said it ground them all away, so every day he would sharpen them with his pocket knife..we would pick up empty tin cans and stomp our shoes in the center of them and then take a rock and beat them over the soles and walk, sounding like horses walking until the cans dropped off our shoes. (Dad would have killed us) always got a new pair of "long johns" underwear in winter with the "trap-door" in the rear..my Mom &Dad both chewed Browns Mule tobacco and when they ran out, they borrowed from one another..Once I was butted by our old cow and started crying..Mom ran out and grabbed me up and took me in the house and kised me SMACK DAB in the mouth with a chew in her mouth..that was my first experience with tobacco! My Mom fell dead while taking biscuits out of the stove in 1941...it was really hard to eat those biscuits, but we were raised poor and it was eat them or go hungry...I was 14 years old at that time.. We used to make our own sling-shots from the forks of laurel bushes and old red rubber inner-tubes..we would go up on the steep hill behind our house and shoot down the other boys kites that were flying up there (while the boys were down in the valley)..we would "Gravel" for fish in Powell River (feel under big rocks with our hands and catch them)..... More later, Ole Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

Was there a large turnout for Appy 2000? I had hoped to go but didn't make it. Haven't heard anything about it since -- would love to hear if a good time was had by all! Ann > Jim..you did tell me that story at Appy 2000.

My name is David Attride. I live in Jonesborough, TN. I have been researching the CRESS surname and its variants CRACE and CRASE intensively over the last year. I have information on about 2500 descendants of George CRESS (b.1739 York co., PA) who served in the Revolutionary War and then settled in northern Virginia. I know there were several Cress families living in Wise county in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I am planning a CRESS family reunion this August IF there is sufficient interest. I plan on having available copies of a printout that shows all known descendants of George "Revolutionary War" Cress. I am looking for feedback from anyone who is a descendant of George Cress even if they bear another surname today. I am especially interested in getting help putting together a list of living CRESS/CRACE/CRASE descendants. Please contact: David Attride at dattride@mounet.com

--WebTV-Mail-25204-1213 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Jim..you did tell me that story at Appy 2000..you also said that Ben used to charge kids 5 cents to look at his stub... Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday --WebTV-Mail-25204-1213 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-101-4.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.29) by storefull-145.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Mon, 21 May 2001 18:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-101-4.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) id 535EA16D; Mon, 21 May 2001 18:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: pogoat2@webtv.net Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.32]) by smtpin-101-4.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id C723415E; Mon, 21 May 2001 18:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f4M1iMW15167; Mon, 21 May 2001 18:44:22 -0700 Resent-Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:44:22 -0700 X-Original-Sender: dochuneycutt@erols.com Mon May 21 18:44:22 2001 Message-ID: <000b01c0e25e$a6f437c0$0101a8c4@pavilion> From: "James S. Huneycutt" <dochuneycutt@erols.com> Old-To: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> References: <23772-3B09C09F-2937@storefull-146.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Subject: Re: [VAWISE] To Paul and Vanda Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:29:29 -0400 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Resent-Message-ID: <neWAf.A.zsD.2RcC7@lists2.rootsweb.com> To: VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/288 X-Loop: VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: VAWISE-L-request@rootsweb.com Paul, did ever tell you about when Ben my brother got his toe cut off on a train.? He was at the trash pile(Stringtown child care center) with Snuffy Lovell. When they started home a train was on the side track waiting for the passanger train to pass. Ben put his foot on the track to climb over the train when it shifted and caught his big toe and cut it off. Snuffy flagged down the passanger train and they took him to the station in Appalachia where they called his parents. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul" <pogoat2@webtv.net> To: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [VAWISE] To Paul and Vanda > Theresa...what is your grandmother Mulwees first name? > Paul > > the wages of sin is death..repent before payday > > --WebTV-Mail-25204-1213--

Paul, did ever tell you about when Ben my brother got his toe cut off on a train.? He was at the trash pile(Stringtown child care center) with Snuffy Lovell. When they started home a train was on the side track waiting for the passanger train to pass. Ben put his foot on the track to climb over the train when it shifted and caught his big toe and cut it off. Snuffy flagged down the passanger train and they took him to the station in Appalachia where they called his parents. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul" <pogoat2@webtv.net> To: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [VAWISE] To Paul and Vanda > Theresa...what is your grandmother Mulwees first name? > Paul > > the wages of sin is death..repent before payday > >

Theresa...what is your grandmother Mulwees first name? Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

I just wanted to let you both know that I have enjoyed your stories about when you both were children back up in the Mountains. I kind of makes me think about how things might have been for my grandmother and her siblings, who I have been told were from up there somewhere. I have been hoping that someday on this list I might see their name pop up. Their last name was Mulwee. Like I said I have enjoyed these stories. Please tell more! It brings me close to my grandmother. Theresa Richmond, VA

I remember going to school in the one room schoolhouse and Bonnie Rutherford was my first teacher. In fact, since I did not want to start school, and she and my mom were friends; she picked me up and carried me across the road, up the hill, and into the school. To make matters worse, I rec'd my first paddling at that time. I did not hesitate to go to school after that. When the little school was remodeled by Danny Boggs, it certainly brought a lot of good memories back. I remember some thngs differently than they were when I went to the homecoming there. I also remember most of the kids from Kent Junction. I also remember how the cows ran free, we always had at least one, had a nice spring house built over running mountain water with rocks, ledges and different levels of water to store the milk, butter,and perishibles. In the wintertime. a table on the back porch was sufficient. I do thinkI have been blessed in remembering these things. Vadna paul wrote: > Vadna..never plugged the oil can spout with a raw potato, but remember > having to trim the wicks...even though we lived in town, we had no > electricity..had town water from a faucet in our front yard, but none > inside the house..we had an outside "Johnny house"... > Seems that bedbugs were kinda prevalent in those days..never hear of > them nowadays.. > All our transportation was on foot..never had a car .. cows ran loose > back then and every time our cow had a calf, she went across the Powell > River to do it, and we had to go hunt for her and carry the calf back > home. > as Dolly sings, those were the good ol' days when times were bad.. > Ole Paul > > the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

Vadna..never plugged the oil can spout with a raw potato, but remember having to trim the wicks...even though we lived in town, we had no electricity..had town water from a faucet in our front yard, but none inside the house..we had an outside "Johnny house"... Seems that bedbugs were kinda prevalent in those days..never hear of them nowadays.. All our transportation was on foot..never had a car .. cows ran loose back then and every time our cow had a calf, she went across the Powell River to do it, and we had to go hunt for her and carry the calf back home. as Dolly sings, those were the good ol' days when times were bad.. Ole Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

I remember it well, I also remember her. I was a very small child but we used to walk{with my dad} down to buy everything from Nehi Orange drinks, {which she kept in the first electric refrigerator I ever saw}to kerosene for out oil lamps. Did you ever have to plug the spout of the oil can with an Irish potato? She was a good business woman, as well as a good person. Vadna paul wrote: > Vadna...I seem to remember a grocery store in a sharp curve in Moneyhun > Hollow..seems a Mrs. Moneyhun ran it..she was bitten by a rattlesnake > when I was a child and I remember her leg swelling up about twice the > regular size..do you remember that store? it has now been by-passed by > the newer Rte. 23 > > Ole Paul > > the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

Vadna...I seem to remember a grocery store in a sharp curve in Moneyhun Hollow..seems a Mrs. Moneyhun ran it..she was bitten by a rattlesnake when I was a child and I remember her leg swelling up about twice the regular size..do you remember that store? it has now been by-passed by the newer Rte. 23 Ole Paul the wages of sin is death..repent before payday

Vickie, I am known as Babe Huneycutt. Don Begley took my place on the football team at AHS when I graduated. I may have met you at a reunion at Duffield. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Vicki O'Neil" <vmoneil@earthlink.net> To: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [VAWISE] Appalachia > Ann - if you get a chance, ask you father if he knows any of the > Begleys. Don Begley is my father. Thanks! > > Vicki O'Neil > > chory@earthlink.net wrote: > > > > Did any of you (who are discussing Appalachian memories) attend the > > Appalachia High School Homecoming event last year? I had planned to go but > > didn't get to at the last minute. I haven't heard any follow-up about it > > and wondered how it turned out. I never did receive the book I ordered > > either -- did anyone else? My father graduated from Appalachia High in 1938 > > and I would loved to have met some of his classmates and a couple of his old > > girlfriends that I have pictures of. > > > > Also, the first wife of my husband's grandfather died in the 1918 flu > > epidemic in Wise County. They were only married for a short time -- I > > haven't been able to find out anything about her. All I know is her name > > was Helen, she was Hungarian, and she was married to Alex HEGEDUS. So if > > anyone comes across her name in one of the old cemeteries, please let me > > know. > > > > Thanks, > > Ann > >

Jim - do you also go by the name, Babe? If so, I think we have a mutual friend - my dad, Don Begley. Vicki O'Neil "James S. Huneycutt" wrote: > > Vadna, I am very familiar with the Kilbourne Cemetery because it is just > above the Cliff Hole where we went swimming. There is at least one > Confederate grave in the Cemetery. Sam Rose is buried there and others that > I knew. > Jim > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vadna Bush" <mgbernard@naxs.net> > To: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:24 PM > Subject: Re: [VAWISE] Kelly View Cemetery > > > Paul, > > I know of the cemetery, because some of my people are buried there. > > Grandmother. {McFarland}It is on a little knoll above the old highway > > {23} almost directly across from the entrance to the sawmill. > > There is another cemetery down toward appalachia across the railroad > > tracks called the Kilbourne Cemetery. I know it also because my mother is > > buried there. If you need more info and I can supply it, let me know. > > Vadna > > > > paul wrote: > > > > > There was an old cemetery by this name on Rte.23 about 3 miles out of > > > Appalachia toward Norton...Does anyone have an inventory of this > > > cemetery? > > > > > > Paul > >

Ann - if you get a chance, ask you father if he knows any of the Begleys. Don Begley is my father. Thanks! Vicki O'Neil chory@earthlink.net wrote: > > Did any of you (who are discussing Appalachian memories) attend the > Appalachia High School Homecoming event last year? I had planned to go but > didn't get to at the last minute. I haven't heard any follow-up about it > and wondered how it turned out. I never did receive the book I ordered > either -- did anyone else? My father graduated from Appalachia High in 1938 > and I would loved to have met some of his classmates and a couple of his old > girlfriends that I have pictures of. > > Also, the first wife of my husband's grandfather died in the 1918 flu > epidemic in Wise County. They were only married for a short time -- I > haven't been able to find out anything about her. All I know is her name > was Helen, she was Hungarian, and she was married to Alex HEGEDUS. So if > anyone comes across her name in one of the old cemeteries, please let me > know. > > Thanks, > Ann

Connie, Thank you very much for this information! I would enjoy reading your ggrandfather's autobiography -- is it available for purchase? My husband's grandparents immigrated from Hungary, then married and began a family in the coal camps of Wise County before settling in PA. (The grandmother baked bread every day!) Ironically, as it turns out, my grandparents (whose ancestors had been in SW VA since the 1700s) were also living in Wise County coal camps during the same period of time. Small world. Ann > > In his auto-biography my g-grandfather, WJ (BIll) Stone, worked in the > office of mining companies in Wise co in the early 1900's, wrote the > following concerning Hungarians who worked in the various mines: >

I don't blame him, because it is a terrible "label", and I never could understand why there were such things. I was raised to respect all people. I still do. Vadna Rdvsr@aol.com wrote: > My father was from Austria, when it was still the "Austro-Hungarian Empire", > and he would be enraged if someone called him a "hunky"--which was a > derrogatory term for Hungarian! > > Rodney Veitschegger, Bowling Green, KY > "This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in > it." Psalms 118:24 (this is not one of the 10 commandments, and, therefore, > is exempt from government prohibitions)

My father was from Austria, when it was still the "Austro-Hungarian Empire", and he would be enraged if someone called him a "hunky"--which was a derrogatory term for Hungarian! Rodney Veitschegger, Bowling Green, KY "This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it." Psalms 118:24 (this is not one of the 10 commandments, and, therefore, is exempt from government prohibitions)

My In-laws lived at Inman, and when they moved from Laura-Linden, at the foot of the mountain, to the present house in Inman Va.{it's still standing and occupied} there was a brick, or stone oven in the back yard. As time went on, it either fell or was torn down. . Seems I can recall one of the nicknames was,{and I mean no disrespect}Hunktown. I think all the dwellings were occupied by Hungarian or Polish people. Is there another copy of the book you are sending from? Tim & Connie Williams wrote: > In his auto-biography my g-grandfather, WJ (BIll) Stone, worked in the > office of mining companies in Wise co in the early 1900's, wrote the > following concerning Hungarians who worked in the various mines: > > "Many of the Hungarians worked in the mines in Wise co during the early > 1900's. The Hungarians were excellent workers. They had a priest who was > the leader of the group. The miners paid him a certain amount each month > through their paychecks. The Hungarians poured their liquor into large > tubs, and drank from it w/ dippers. For their dinner during the work week > they brought about a half-gallon of coffee, a large piece of homemade light > bread, a large slice of raw, thin breakfast bacon, and some garlic. They > baked bread once a week and used a 25 lb. bag of flour at a time. They > would bake up a 25-lb sack of flour for someone they liked for $1.00." > > Connie Hoskins Williams

In his auto-biography my g-grandfather, WJ (BIll) Stone, worked in the office of mining companies in Wise co in the early 1900's, wrote the following concerning Hungarians who worked in the various mines: "Many of the Hungarians worked in the mines in Wise co during the early 1900's. The Hungarians were excellent workers. They had a priest who was the leader of the group. The miners paid him a certain amount each month through their paychecks. The Hungarians poured their liquor into large tubs, and drank from it w/ dippers. For their dinner during the work week they brought about a half-gallon of coffee, a large piece of homemade light bread, a large slice of raw, thin breakfast bacon, and some garlic. They baked bread once a week and used a 25 lb. bag of flour at a time. They would bake up a 25-lb sack of flour for someone they liked for $1.00." Connie Hoskins Williams