The lady sitting with her grandchildren (son Joe's children) is Harriet Lance Frady (1838 - ? ), Harriet was the daughter of Samuel Riley and Rebecca Hunter, and granddaughter to John Hunter, the first known Hunter settler of Union County, Georgia.
Harried was married to John Frady (1833-1906).
John fought in the CSA, Ga. 6th Calvary Volun. "The Blood Mountain Tigers" He grew up at the foot of Blood Mountain. In the war he was captured and sent to Chicago. When it became available John applied for a Confederate Soldier’s pension for multiple medical ailments.
After John died in 1906 Rebecca applied for and received a widow’s pension because she had a stroke that left her paralyzed and maybe blind.
Bet there is a thousand stories is these lives. Blood Mountain instead of Cold Mountain.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson here is write your own biography.
Si,
ReplyDeleteBlood Mountain is a mountain with family history. At the base of it is Helton Waterfalls and a rock's throw away is Volgel State Park, which was the farmlands of poet Byron Hubert Reece, a distant relative.
On the top of Blood Mountain the Appalachian Trail cuts through.
Also near the base, on the north side my g-g-g-grandfather John Hunter had a cabin.
Once, when the boys were teenagers we rented a cabin near the top - beautiful view!
Not only are you up early, you are a walking history book. Amazing. And I would bet you are related to just about every "born here" in Georgia. Do you keep in touch with all of your cousins? Whew, what a job that must be.
ReplyDeleteSi,
ReplyDeleteNo, I only keep communicate with a hand full. Some I wouldn't know them if I saw them on the street. One time Anna and I were in the waiting area of a local restaurant waiting to be called and making small talk to another couple sitting by us and finally the hostess said, "Hunter, party of two." and all 4 of us stood up. The guy was my first cousin and I knew his older brothers and sisters well, I haven't seen him since he was a toddler.
I normally get wake up between 4 and 4:30am - all postal habits are hard to break.