I’ve always wondered. Did Great, Great Grandfather Thomas Hunt look up in the sky from Blount County, Tennessee in 1835 and see that momentous passage, so ballyhooed in that year, of Halley’s Comet? What were his memories of the second war with Britain, the War of 1812, and where was he and what did he [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Hunt Surname’
May 19, 2009
Memories too precious to lose
Following a local genealogical society meeting last night, I have been thinking about what is lost forever when another person dies. I feel fine, but I wanted to get down some things of which I am the last keeper. Otherwise, when I go, they go. The first was a memory of my Dad and namesake, [...]
May 1, 2009
Remembering great grandpa’s firearm
I’m not a hunter. I’ve never fired anything more serious than a BB-gun at any living creature (and I never hit anything alive). One of my prized possessions, however, is a 19th Century black powder rifle. I came into possession of this firearm sometime after my Dad, also Deason Hunt, died back in the early [...]
April 19, 2009
Riding to school
“We had a hoodlum wagon. They never took the cover off. If it was a pretty day, the cover stayed on. It was covered all the way down. It had hooks on little things on each side of the wagon, those hooks fit down in there, but they never took those hooks off. We never went open. That was what made them call it a hoodlum wagon. It was just a wagon and mules.”
February 17, 2009
Rolling out of the car
…those motion and phobia things might also possibly be related to the incident known in our family as “the time I fell out of the car.”
February 10, 2009
Those new-fangled devices
I know we thought it was humorous that Mamaw didn’t understand about television, but it’s likely that my own children have had such thought about my dealings with cell phones and the impossible-to-program VCR.
