On 1/20/2014 10:47 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
Scott wrote:
NC piedmont. Place was a tobacco farm that belonged to my wife's
family
since well before civil war. The house (original part) was built in
1854.
Unfortunately, the 2-lane road in front of the place has become too
well
traveled in modern times.
And I thought the 1948 house we live in is old.
Wow!!
mao
Neat stuff.
SWMBO was looking in a drawer the other day and came up with a
lacquered wood coin purse that looked like one of the plastic squeeze
kind. It was in some stuff from my grandmother. the coin purse had a
hinge and the top came off revealing a hollowed out center big enough
for 3 or 4 silver dollars and maybe a few other coins. Inside was a
piece of paper folded up. It was a tax receipt from the county
showing my great great grandfather paid the taxes for 1852 in Feb
1853. I didn't know when the family moved there, but I knew it was
more than a hundred years ago. Research I did, and family documents
showed that my dad's family had been west of the Mississippi for
around 175 years, as the county recorder showed they had paid off the
farm in 1850. In those days, the deed was not recorded until the debt
was paid. It was probably a 15 year note.
With the coin purse, I now know both my mom and dad's families were
pioneer families. the territory was opened in 1834. Both families
came in shortly after. The area where my mom grew up, most of the
families moved from Western PA, probably between 1835 and 1840. My
uncle lived in my great grandfather's house. He died in 1901. I
don't know when that house was built. My grandparents house was built
in 1873. For west of the Mississippi, and not on the coast, that is old.
Wife grew up in an 1812 (Napoleonic era) field stone farmhouse on the
river in Lancaster County, PA. Power company took the 250 acre farm
by eminent domain, but wifes father hired a lawyer who got it declared
a national historic site and the power company was required to save
and store all the house hard ware, window casings, doors, and a lot
more. In addition, he was paid about twice what the other farmers
whose farms were taken received. Power company created a large "pond"
out of the farms that were confiscated; pumped water into them from
the dam below on the river, and used the water to run their turbines
during high demand during the day.
Gerry
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