Life on the farm

BigBoyToys · Oct 23, 2015

Thoroughly enjoyed reading and looking at the photos!!!! :thumbsup:
GREAT MEMORIES!
Thanks for sharing.

teg · Oct 23, 2015

buckeyefarmer said:
Teg,

I like the Hillsville VA area, real pretty there. Always thought that might be a place to retire to.

Well, that's my plan and I'm going to try and stick to it :thumbsup:

There's some old homesteads around here like your photos... getting to know some of the stories from the locals. Glad you are making it part of the history on TBN...

Happy Gilmore · Oct 24, 2015

Glad to see the thread is still going buckeye!

buckeyefarmer · Oct 24, 2015

Thanks for the kind words, it keeps me adding more.
i was lucky my family took lots of pictures.
Thinking some day to arrange into a book to give to family members. When they are young they dont think about family history. i know i missed a lot. my maternal grandfather was in ww1, but i have no details. my grandmother talked about the depression.

We grew up poor but was really rich. my dad was/ is smart but college was not an option for him. He volunteered to join the army in ww2 after high school.
I had 3 sisters, oldest passed away a couple yrs ago from cancer. one was validictorian(sp?) . have 3 brothers also. all of us went to college.
More later......

buckeyefarmer · Nov 7, 2015

Creek crossing below my grandfathers farm. We don't need no stinkin bridges.

buckeyefarmer · Nov 7, 2015

Posted this in the good morning thread, but wanted to capture it here also:

here's one quote from the website, which is from a book of history written in 1882, I've edited a couple things out.

" He (my GGG Grandfather) then came to Ohio, and settled near Cadiz, where he remained two years, and then came to Centre township and settled in the southern part of it. He then entered eighty acres of land, proceeded to clear it up, built himself a house, and reared a family of four sons and three daughters. Edward (brother to my GG Grandfather), the subject of this sketch, was the oldest in the family, and assisted his father in clearing up the farm. Centre township was then very new, there being but about ten houses - log huts - now in the present thriving town of ........, the county seat. There were but few families in that part of Centre township, the Jacksons, the Griffiths, the Piatts and the Jeffers, were all there were south of ................ There were no schools, no churches and no public highways. Edward attended the first school in that part of Centre township. It was taught by John ...... in the winter of 1834. Edward has been one of the useful and enterprising men of the county, and has an ample share of this world's goods gathered together. He remembers often of having to climb saplings, when a boy and out hunting the cows, to get away from the wild hogs. Mrs. ........ parents, the Jacksons, were among the earliest settlers of Centre township, coming into it when it was a wilderness, and infested with wild animals, such as bears, wolves, panthers, etc. They went through all the hardships incident to a settlement of a new country."

this creek crossing is the area my GGG grandfather settled.

buckeyefarmer · Nov 7, 2015

This was written about another relative, but haven't quite figured out the exact relationship to this one.

"Mr. ........, senior, was married to Elizabeth, daughter of William ...........at Hagerstown; from there he moved to the western part of Adams township, this county, in 1816; this part of the country was then a perfect wilderness, wild animals and Indians roaming through the woods at their will. The title deed to Mr. .........'s land was signed by President Jackson. He was voted for every Democratic candidate for president since 1816. Mrs. ..........'s grandmother had to flee to the fort at Wheeling a great many times to escape massacre by the Indians. Mrs. .............'s maternal grandparents were among the first settlers on the Ohio river."

not too far down from the creek crossing is an old cemetary where they are buried.