We are Mountain Folk!

This postcard is of the Old Sautee Store in the Nacooche Valley on the old Unicoi Turnpike.  It is about 5 miles from Helen, Georgia, and a few more from the Unicoi State Park.

We stopped by here on December 9, 1967,  on the way to our honeymoon cabin in the Unicoi Park. The owner, a middle-age graceful woman was happy to show us around and tell us she also owned a store in Vinings, in our home county, Cobb.    She gave us a bronze candelabra for a wedding present.

What I did not know then, but later during genealogy research found out was that just down the road was the covered bridge that was in I WILL CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN (some of my Hunter-kin of the area  were extras); my 1^st cousin 4x removed, Leaner Newton Trammell, who was technically the governor of Georgia for one day and died as Georgia’s RR Commissioner lived on the same road, and ended up living in Marietta on Trammell Street; and  Moses Harshaw was a neighbor of Leander Trammell.  Moses married Nancy England, a Hunter in-law of Helen, Ga which makes him an in-law – in-law?  When Moses died he was considered the meanest man in Georgia (because he snuffed the lives of slaves who grew old and sickly and a liability.

By the way, the England in-laws were the original settlers of Helen, Georgia,