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Fw: [TNFENTRE-L] Not Genealogy--but great story of an old trunk
by The Christians
What a beautiful story! I enjoyed reading it so much. To me, the old trunk
would be as much genealogy as any of my pages of dates and names. Thank you
for sharing it.
Patricia Holmes Christian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Jones" <jyrene(a)hotmail.com>
To: <CHRISTIAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Fwd: [TNFENTRE-L] Not Genealogy--but great story of an old trunk
> Just forwarding this hoping you may like it as much as I did.
>
> Scott
>
> If nobody tends to the family tree the roots will wither.
>
>
>
> >From: MPiros1120(a)aol.com
> >Reply-To: TNFENTRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
> >To: TNFENTRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
> >Subject: [TNFENTRE-L] Not Genealogy--but great story of an old trunk
> >Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:05:55 EDT
> >
> >This story reminded me that I have my Granny Delk's trunk that she bought
> >when she got married in 1905. Just think in four more years my trunk will
> >be
> >100 yrs old....I think I will write a story and place in the trunk for
the
> >one that inherits it.
> >
> >
> >Evolution of a Trunk (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series)
> >
> >Long ago, when I was a little girl, my parents bought an old dome lidded
> >trunk at an auction. They cleaned it up, painted it up, and put it to
> >practical use as a little girl's toy chest. One day, as a young wife with
a
> >love of tradition, I realized the antique value of it and dug it out to
be
> >a part of my everyday surroundings again. And a later day still, I began
to
> >realize some other value, and began to realize that it was after all,
> >simply another tool to provoke thought....
> >
> >1852
> >
> >Papa brought two surprises for me today. I have never seen him as he is
> >these days, and it is both a source of joy and a source of pain. I wish I
> >had known this side of him before now, and it seems very sad that my
stern
> >gruff father is letting me finally see his softness at the very time I
will
> >soon bid him good bye. Never would he let me wear a red ribbon in my hair
> >and frowned on such as frivolous. Today he bid me hold out my hand and in
> >it he placed a red ribbon. I gasped with both pleasure and surprise and
> >thought I caught just a glimpse of something shining in his eyes before
he
> >turned away. He went out to the wagon then and hauled in a trunk. A
> >beautiful domed trunk with flowers embossed in the tin...and said simply
> >"you'll be needing this", and walked away. Tomorrow I will pack my things
> >in the trunk, that even has a special tray for my bonnets. I will tuck
away
> >the memory locket Maranda has given me there too. How I will miss my
> >sister! And two days hence I will leave my home, my father, my sister,
and
> >my state with William...to be his bride.
> >
> >1902
> >
> >Today I packed away those things of Mama's I could not bear to let go. I
> >packed them away in that old round topped trunk she always told me her
papa
> >gave her back in Illinois just before she was to marry. I could not bear
to
> >get rid of that either, she loved it so, and today I had John carry it up
> >to the attic out of the way. I packed away the dress she said she married
> >in and traveled in all on the same day, and the locket with the braided
> >hair of her beloved sister encased inside. Later perhaps I will climb
those
> >stairs now and then and open the trunk and when I see her things and
smell
> >the scent of them, for just a moment it might be a bit like having a
visit
> >with Mama again...
> >
> >1937
> >
> >Charles and I have been most of the week cleaning out Mother's house. It
> >has been heartbreaking to sell her things but I have no way to take them
> >back with me, and the most of them simply are not things I can really use
> >anyway. Charles said I must be very selective about what I keep as we
> >simply cannot afford to ship a great deal, but I did decide to keep that
> >old trunk that always sat up in the attic. I threw out the ratty moth
eaten
> >clothing in it, and the books I gave to the library there in town. There
> >were a few odds and ends of jewelry but I don't believe they were of any
> >value and I gave those away as well, except of course for that dreadful
bit
> >of braided hair encased in a locket! I have no clue why such a thing
would
> >ever have been worn but that I threw away along with those faded old
> >letters tied in the nastiest old red ribbon! Charles is right...Mother
was
> >a dreadful pack rat. The trunk however does have possibilities and would
> >make for good storage. I got to thinking that perhaps with a bit of
paint,
> >Elizabeth might like to have this as a hope chest, and if not, well I
> >suppose I can store winter sweaters in it.
> >
> >1959
> >
> >Today we went to an auction at a very old house and Mommy and Daddy
bought
> >me something! I was not at all sure what they wanted it for and never saw
> >anything quite like it but they said it was for me. It is a trunk with a
> >pretty curved top on it. They said it would be my toy box now and Daddy
> >drilled a big round hole in the back of it. He said he knew that I had
more
> >sense, but that one of my friends might think it fun to hide inside and
> >that would never do, so if they were so silly at least they could breathe
> >until someone managed to get them out. There was even a little shelf that
> >sat inside on the top of rest of the trunk and I wanted to keep it but
> >Daddy said it would be too much trouble to mend, and so he threw that
away.
> >Mommy sat the trunk outside on the picnic table and painted it a pretty
> >blue just the shade of a robin's egg. I got to pick out the color myself!
> >She started to peel the paper inside and was going to put new wallpaper
> >there instead, but I talked her out of that one. There is a picture just
> >inside the top of two children in very old fashioned clothing sledding
down
> >a hill, and I did not want the picture ruined even if it is yellowed and
> >peeling.
> >
> >1982
> >
> >It is amazing how I have taken the things I grew up with for granted for
so
> >long, and now what treasures they are! Today I dug deep in the storage
> >closet at my parents' house until I managed finally to unearth that old
> >trunk that was my toy box! What possibilities it has! I can hardly wait
to
> >strip that old blue paint off of it and see what it looks like when it is
> >cleaned up and restored. I am so thrilled that the paper lining inside is
> >intact! It will look perfect in a corner of my family room, and I will
> >store my children's baby clothes and school momentos there.
> >
> >2000
> >
> >One day before long I will begin to think which child should receive
which
> >treasure...and this will be no easy task. So many stories, so much family
> >history...and which would appreciate, would see beyond the objects to an
> >underlying meaning, a reason, understand roots? Sometimes I wonder over
the
> >treasures that "happened" into our family too...that really were a story
> >before our own. Take that old trunk for example. It has been mine for
> >nearly half a century now. Well I remember the day when I had both my
> >mother and father, and they were so proud to buy me the trunk and so
> >pleased to fix it especially for a little girl's needs and whims. And
when
> >I was a young mother I stored baby clothes in it, and packed away little
> >stories my children wrote in school. But before that? I do not know. A
> >hundred years before that it began with someone else's story and
somewhere
> >in the world today is a person who if I only knew, and he or she only
> >knew...would treasure that trunk even more for roots far deeper than a
> >little girl's toy chest or a receptacle for a young mother's momentos.
But
> >who did it belong to? And where are the descendents now? No way to know
of
> >course...and I wonder...how many of my own family's roots escaped us, are
> >residing now in an antique mall or a museum, are gracing a stranger's
home?
> >No way to know of course...
> >
> >just a thought,
> >jan
> >
> >Copyright ©2000JanPhilpot
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >(Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be
> >shared...simply share as written without alterations...and in entirety.
> >Thanks, jan)
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Sunday
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Fwd: [TNFENTRE-L] Not Genealogy--but great story of an old trunk
by Scott Jones
Just forwarding this hoping you may like it as much as I did.
Scott
If nobody tends to the family tree the roots will wither.
>From: MPiros1120(a)aol.com
>Reply-To: TNFENTRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
>To: TNFENTRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: [TNFENTRE-L] Not Genealogy--but great story of an old trunk
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:05:55 EDT
>
>This story reminded me that I have my Granny Delk's trunk that she bought
>when she got married in 1905. Just think in four more years my trunk will
>be
>100 yrs old....I think I will write a story and place in the trunk for the
>one that inherits it.
>
>
>Evolution of a Trunk (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series)
>
>Long ago, when I was a little girl, my parents bought an old dome lidded
>trunk at an auction. They cleaned it up, painted it up, and put it to
>practical use as a little girl's toy chest. One day, as a young wife with a
>love of tradition, I realized the antique value of it and dug it out to be
>a part of my everyday surroundings again. And a later day still, I began to
>realize some other value, and began to realize that it was after all,
>simply another tool to provoke thought....
>
>1852
>
>Papa brought two surprises for me today. I have never seen him as he is
>these days, and it is both a source of joy and a source of pain. I wish I
>had known this side of him before now, and it seems very sad that my stern
>gruff father is letting me finally see his softness at the very time I will
>soon bid him good bye. Never would he let me wear a red ribbon in my hair
>and frowned on such as frivolous. Today he bid me hold out my hand and in
>it he placed a red ribbon. I gasped with both pleasure and surprise and
>thought I caught just a glimpse of something shining in his eyes before he
>turned away. He went out to the wagon then and hauled in a trunk. A
>beautiful domed trunk with flowers embossed in the tin...and said simply
>"you'll be needing this", and walked away. Tomorrow I will pack my things
>in the trunk, that even has a special tray for my bonnets. I will tuck away
>the memory locket Maranda has given me there too. How I will miss my
>sister! And two days hence I will leave my home, my father, my sister, and
>my state with William...to be his bride.
>
>1902
>
>Today I packed away those things of Mama's I could not bear to let go. I
>packed them away in that old round topped trunk she always told me her papa
>gave her back in Illinois just before she was to marry. I could not bear to
>get rid of that either, she loved it so, and today I had John carry it up
>to the attic out of the way. I packed away the dress she said she married
>in and traveled in all on the same day, and the locket with the braided
>hair of her beloved sister encased inside. Later perhaps I will climb those
>stairs now and then and open the trunk and when I see her things and smell
>the scent of them, for just a moment it might be a bit like having a visit
>with Mama again...
>
>1937
>
>Charles and I have been most of the week cleaning out Mother's house. It
>has been heartbreaking to sell her things but I have no way to take them
>back with me, and the most of them simply are not things I can really use
>anyway. Charles said I must be very selective about what I keep as we
>simply cannot afford to ship a great deal, but I did decide to keep that
>old trunk that always sat up in the attic. I threw out the ratty moth eaten
>clothing in it, and the books I gave to the library there in town. There
>were a few odds and ends of jewelry but I don't believe they were of any
>value and I gave those away as well, except of course for that dreadful bit
>of braided hair encased in a locket! I have no clue why such a thing would
>ever have been worn but that I threw away along with those faded old
>letters tied in the nastiest old red ribbon! Charles is right...Mother was
>a dreadful pack rat. The trunk however does have possibilities and would
>make for good storage. I got to thinking that perhaps with a bit of paint,
>Elizabeth might like to have this as a hope chest, and if not, well I
>suppose I can store winter sweaters in it.
>
>1959
>
>Today we went to an auction at a very old house and Mommy and Daddy bought
>me something! I was not at all sure what they wanted it for and never saw
>anything quite like it but they said it was for me. It is a trunk with a
>pretty curved top on it. They said it would be my toy box now and Daddy
>drilled a big round hole in the back of it. He said he knew that I had more
>sense, but that one of my friends might think it fun to hide inside and
>that would never do, so if they were so silly at least they could breathe
>until someone managed to get them out. There was even a little shelf that
>sat inside on the top of rest of the trunk and I wanted to keep it but
>Daddy said it would be too much trouble to mend, and so he threw that away.
>Mommy sat the trunk outside on the picnic table and painted it a pretty
>blue just the shade of a robin's egg. I got to pick out the color myself!
>She started to peel the paper inside and was going to put new wallpaper
>there instead, but I talked her out of that one. There is a picture just
>inside the top of two children in very old fashioned clothing sledding down
>a hill, and I did not want the picture ruined even if it is yellowed and
>peeling.
>
>1982
>
>It is amazing how I have taken the things I grew up with for granted for so
>long, and now what treasures they are! Today I dug deep in the storage
>closet at my parents' house until I managed finally to unearth that old
>trunk that was my toy box! What possibilities it has! I can hardly wait to
>strip that old blue paint off of it and see what it looks like when it is
>cleaned up and restored. I am so thrilled that the paper lining inside is
>intact! It will look perfect in a corner of my family room, and I will
>store my children's baby clothes and school momentos there.
>
>2000
>
>One day before long I will begin to think which child should receive which
>treasure...and this will be no easy task. So many stories, so much family
>history...and which would appreciate, would see beyond the objects to an
>underlying meaning, a reason, understand roots? Sometimes I wonder over the
>treasures that "happened" into our family too...that really were a story
>before our own. Take that old trunk for example. It has been mine for
>nearly half a century now. Well I remember the day when I had both my
>mother and father, and they were so proud to buy me the trunk and so
>pleased to fix it especially for a little girl's needs and whims. And when
>I was a young mother I stored baby clothes in it, and packed away little
>stories my children wrote in school. But before that? I do not know. A
>hundred years before that it began with someone else's story and somewhere
>in the world today is a person who if I only knew, and he or she only
>knew...would treasure that trunk even more for roots far deeper than a
>little girl's toy chest or a receptacle for a young mother's momentos. But
>who did it belong to? And where are the descendents now? No way to know of
>course...and I wonder...how many of my own family's roots escaped us, are
>residing now in an antique mall or a museum, are gracing a stranger's home?
>No way to know of course...
>
>just a thought,
>jan
>
>Copyright ©2000JanPhilpot
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>(Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be
>shared...simply share as written without alterations...and in entirety.
>Thanks, jan)
>Sunday Afternoon Rocking columns are distributed weekly on the list Sunday
>Rocking. This is not a "reply to" list, and normally only one message per
>week will come across it, that being the column. To subscribe send email to
>Sundayrocking-subscribe(a)topica.com
>Comments about the content of these messages can be sent to
>unicorn(a)sun-spot.com
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>
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>
><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/millyella/listofpages.html ">A List of All
>My Pages</A> http://www.geocities.com/millyella/listofpages.html
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Fwd: [JCO] Destorying Moore Graveyard
by Scott Jones
Please read the following message. Please forward to anyone you may know
who may be able to help.
Scott
If nobody tends to the family tree the roots will wither.
>From: Reda Bilbrey <reda(a)twlakes.net>
>To: JACKSON-CLAY-OVERTON-CO-TN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: [JCO] Distorying Moore Graveyard
>Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:50:55 -0500
>
>Need your help. The Moore Graveyard in the Big Bottom Community of Jackson
>County TN. has been wiped out. No tombstones are left. Those of you that
>bought a new tombstone for Denton Moore have lost it to the land owner who
>has dug a basement in the cemetery. He has been charged with a 39-17-311
>desecration of a venerated object, meaning a tombstone
>instead of a 39-17-312 obuse of a Corpse which is a Class E felony for each
>grave. Three or four men have been called to testify in behalf of this
>case Oct 18,2001 over this.
>
>Please call District Attorney , Tommy Tompson at his Hartsville, TN. Office
>615-374-2604 or his Lebanon, TN. Office 615-443-2863 and give him all the
>what for you can think of. Thompson has charged this man with such a small
>charge that it is merely a slap on the wrist.
>
>Then call your congressman or whoever changes the laws to help the poor
>person.
>
>Please if you know the people who had bought the tombstone for Mr. Denton
>Moore and had it set in this cemetery, please notify them that it is gone.
> Please someone that can help with this show up in court Oct 18, 2001 and
>lend a hand. Tell Thompson you don't like what's being done.
>
>The Cemetery Laws need to be rewritten to protect the small family
>cemeteries. Loop holes big enough to fall through. I don't have to tell
>you this makes me very angry. Please will the Moore Family please step in
>and put this case on record.
>
>Reda
>
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