The Goat Pen

hedge wrote:It was a little disappointing in one way, b/c this history of that line of my fambly was much more credible (due to the citations of wills, marriage records, etc) and it basically invalidated this other website that I had been looking at (I think I shared my findings in here a couple of years ago from the bogus site) that had me as a direct descendant of British royalty back to William the Conquerer and also Charlemagne. Now the most I can claim is that I'm a descendant of a captain of some half ass local militia named James Blount...

According to the Wilson Daily Times (and you can say that in the grittiest redneck twang you can muster: Wiiiisssin Dallleh Tiiiiimmmmmezzzz), someone up the line in your fambly, maybe the Blount fellow, was credited with saving Wilson from Sherman's torches, like Goldsboro and Fayetteville got. He basically persuaded the yankees to just stay down in Goldsboro and leave Wilson alone and it worked. There should be a statue at the courthouse if true especially if it meant extra burning in Goldsboro.

Saint wrote:

hedge wrote:It was a little disappointing in one way, b/c this history of that line of my fambly was much more credible (due to the citations of wills, marriage records, etc) and it basically invalidated this other website that I had been looking at (I think I shared my findings in here a couple of years ago from the bogus site) that had me as a direct descendant of British royalty back to William the Conquerer and also Charlemagne. Now the most I can claim is that I'm a descendant of a captain of some half ass local militia named James Blount...

According to the Wilson Daily Times (and you can say that in the grittiest redneck twang you can muster: Wiiiisssin Dallleh Tiiiiimmmmmezzzz), someone up the line in your fambly, maybe the Blount fellow, was credited with saving Wilson from Sherman's torches, like Goldsboro and Fayetteville got. He basically persuaded the yankees to just stay down in Goldsboro and leave Wilson alone and it worked. There should be a statue at the courthouse if true especially if it meant extra burning in Goldsboro.

Goldsboro was not burned, and Sherman only burned the arsenal in Fayetteville (which was located less than a mile from where my house stands).

Sherman made it a point to take it easy on North Carolina. He understood North Carolina was a relunctant participant that was forced into secession.

When he rode thru Goldsboro, he could see that it was such a shithole that there was no need to waste a match on it. He was there to destroy, not improve...

"According to the Wilson Daily Times (and you can say that in the grittiest redneck twang you can muster: Wiiiisssin Dallleh Tiiiiimmmmmezzzz), someone up the line in your fambly, maybe the Blount fellow, was credited with saving Wilson from Sherman's torches, like Goldsboro and Fayetteville got."

Yep, that was great-great grandpap George Washington Blount, he was an officer in the Confederacy, but only ceremonial I'm sure, as he was in his 60's during the Civil War. He was the mayor of Wilson at the time, as was his grandson (my grandfather, whom I'm named after) about 60 years later, in the 1920's. At the time, he was the youngest mayor in the country at 24 years old. When I was 24 years old, I was self-reporting to federal prison. I'm sure my ancestors would've been proud...

Email me a link to the WDT story...

hedge wrote:"According to the Wilson Daily Times (and you can say that in the grittiest redneck twang you can muster: Wiiiisssin Dallleh Tiiiiimmmmmezzzz), someone up the line in your fambly, maybe the Blount fellow, was credited with saving Wilson from Sherman's torches, like Goldsboro and Fayetteville got."

Yep, that was great-great grandpap George Washington Blount, he was an officer in the Confederacy, but only ceremonial I'm sure, as he was in his 60's during the Civil War. He was the mayor of Wilson at the time, as was his grandson (my grandfather, whom I'm named after) about 60 years later, in the 1920's. At the time, he was the youngest mayor in the country at 24 years old. When I was 24 years old, I was self-reporting to federal prison. I'm sure my ancestors would've been proud...

Email me a link to the WDT story...

and now you're your the grain kingpin of Bethel holding court during your lunch hours at the Day / Night...

That's "Da-Nite"...

"We've got Da-Nite"

That's an old Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton tune.

DooKSucks wrote:

Saint wrote:

hedge wrote:It was a little disappointing in one way, b/c this history of that line of my fambly was much more credible (due to the citations of wills, marriage records, etc) and it basically invalidated this other website that I had been looking at (I think I shared my findings in here a couple of years ago from the bogus site) that had me as a direct descendant of British royalty back to William the Conquerer and also Charlemagne. Now the most I can claim is that I'm a descendant of a captain of some half ass local militia named James Blount...

According to the Wilson Daily Times (and you can say that in the grittiest redneck twang you can muster: Wiiiisssin Dallleh Tiiiiimmmmmezzzz), someone up the line in your fambly, maybe the Blount fellow, was credited with saving Wilson from Sherman's torches, like Goldsboro and Fayetteville got. He basically persuaded the yankees to just stay down in Goldsboro and leave Wilson alone and it worked. There should be a statue at the courthouse if true especially if it meant extra burning in Goldsboro.

Goldsboro was not burned, and Sherman only burned the arsenal in Fayetteville (which was located less than a mile from where my house stands).

Sherman made it a point to take it easy on North Carolina. He understood North Carolina was a relunctant participant that was forced into secession.

Incorrect. Sherman burned a lot of Fayetteville, including the secesh newspaper that he watched be set ablaze while enjoying a cigar. Goldsboro was also roughed up with transportation lines cut, bridges destroyed. They didn't even come to Wilson thanks to hedge's greatx5 grandpap

Sherman burned up the arsenal, train/transport related infrastructure and military installations, but he didn’t engage in wholesale destruction like he did in South Carolina.

My great grandpappy ordered Sherman to attack DS's great grandpappy...

My great grandpappy was still a few decades away from birth...

DooKSucks wrote:Sherman burned up the arsenal, train/transport related infrastructure and military installations, but he didn’t engage in wholesale destruction like he did in South Carolina.

Well, duh. South Carolina deserved every bit of it, too. Still does.

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The man who is going to take down Led Zeppelin

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/02/ ... -zeppelin/

just watched the documentary on HBO about Fred Rogers

I never really watched Mr. Rogers Neighborhood as a kid, I thought it was lame to be honest

but the man was gifted. Its worth watching.

Definitely..

He molested hedge.

caught another good documentary last night on PBS - American Masters

They profiled Loretta Lynn. It was surprisingly open and honest.

I have no idea how old it is. It had Sheryl Crow in it, and she was part of a tribute album around 2014 or so I"m guessing that is about when it was.

Have you ever been to Butcher Holler?

hedge wrote:Have you ever been to Butcher Holler?

no, I couldn't tell you where it is

last year my wife and I went hiking at a lake in eastern Kentucky. We were 20 miles outside of Hazard, so we went there just to say we had.

Eastern Kentucky is beautiful in some areas, depressing in others. I'm guessing Butcher Holler is the latter.