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'