Hello Starla,
My Chamblee bunch is from the Hodges, or Franklin Co. Al area.
My line is:
Robert Chamblee
Benjamin W. Chamblee
James Burris Chamblee
Robert Thompson Chamblee
Wade Hampton Chamblee
Agnes Chamblee Herring
Don
At 03:39 PM 7/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Which of the Chamblees are you related to My grandparents are from
Alabama
as well? Starla Vaught
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don S. Herring" <carman1(a)mindspring.com>
To: <CHAMBLEE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAMBLEE] Deliverance and scandals
> At 02:02 PM 7/6/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > Sometimes your research leads you into what is for you a pretty
> > >alien culture. Many of the old timers in my Chamblee/Overton lines
still
> > >live in extremely rural settings and areas. Think "Deliverance"
with
the
> > >people living in a little bit better housing.....<G>
> >
> >Now that's living! No kidding, I'd put up with an outhouse again to
visit
> >the house where my grandma Chamblee lived when I was a child. It had open
> >fireplaces, and a great wood stove, fabulous old feather beds with iron
> >frames, and the most formal looking sofa I have ever seen. We had to haul
> >water up a steep hill from the well, and it was the best tasting water in
> >my experience. Grandpa Chamblee built the house himself. I can smell the
> >woodsmoke from the stove, and biscuits baking, coffee boiling, bacon
> >frying, even now. They had chickens, and a horse, and acres of land with
a
> >great climbing tree and blackberry patches. It was a real child's
paradise.
> >Don't know if I'd find it quite as charming in this weather though.
>
> My first experience was at about age 5. There was a death in the family
> and my mother and father traveled from Birmingham up to the old home place
> late at night. I was thrown into a bed in which there were 3 or 4 other
> young cousins that I'd never met before. I remember us all snuggling down
> under heavy quilts because it was winter and the only heat in the house
was
> from the kitchen stove or the fireplace in the main room and whispering to
> one another who we were. That was my first exposure to a farm. I
remember
> vividly watching aunt Zora Overton (Chamblee) cooking breakfast the next
> morning and thinking that I wasn't about to eat a brown egg......<G>
>
> >I'm still trying to figure out who the outlaw kin were that reportedly
came
> >to Itawamba and hid out for a while. Supposedly they had committed murder
> >and were hiding, then went back to face their accusers. With all the
> >murderous tempers in the family, it's hard to run down that rumor.
>
> Well, my mother and dad ran off to Itawamba and got married in 1949, but I
> certainly hope they didn't kill anyone in the process.
>
> >Re outlaws
> >I hear tell that my grandfather's cousin was a bootlegger, but I hesitate
> >to give his name since it may offend. Besides, at that time a bootlegger
> >was somebody who made liquor in a dry county. I don't think it was even
> >illegal unless offered for sale. Although it was a scandal within my
> >primitive Baptist family.
>
> Well lets have a name kiddo.....ya never know...ya just never
know.......My
> line over here was primitive and we wuz Baptists but everything I've ever
> heard indicats that we'un's were right proud of the quality of our corn
> squeezins'
>