Tony Brown and The Big Chicken

 All roads lead to the Big Chicken! This is Tony Brown. He is retired from the Marietta Post Office. He has worked at two of the offices I know for sure: Station A on Gresham Road and the Sprayberry Branch on Sandy Plains Road. He answered the phone a lot. When people called wanting to know how to get to the post office his first question was where were they coming from. His second question was always: "Do you know where the Big Chicken is?" Then he would base how to reach their destination using The Big Chicken as a guide post or a light house. It always worked.

Walker Petty Family

 Attn: Petty Cousins:

Did I ever tell you about my half 2nd cousin, once removed, Hobert Walker went to a party for his brother getting married and got killed?

My great-great grandfather, Elijah Petty (1803-1881), and his second wife Sarah Parker (1818-1897) had seven children.

The oldest is Martha "Mary" Petty (1851-1945) married William Peyton Walker (1850-1936) and they had eight children.

Their third oldest William Richard Walker (1877-1958) married Alice Matilda Tiffar (1884-1946). They had eight children also.

One of their sons, Lester William Walker (1909-1987) married Odean Tanner (1919-1992), on 23 March 1937.

Another of their sons, Hobert Walker(1915-1937) died on 23 March 1937, the day Lester and Odean were married,

Here is the only explanation I found:

Hobert and another boy were carrying Lester on a rail during what was called a (Sereande) to celebrate the marriage of Lester and Dean Tanner. Some accident happened to Hobert that caused him to lose his life.

First picture: Mary Petty Walker. Second picture: Walker-Petty Family.

 

Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, Ga.  So, I was sitting in the waiting area in front of the elevator when a short man entered the room from the inside.  He had a hospital gown on, it might have been inside-out.

I was the only one there.  He saw me, lit up, smiled, walked over and handed me a note.  It said something like this:

 

“I am deaf.  Would you please help me get a drink out of the drink machine?”

 

I thought why would one need to be able to speak and hear to deal with a vending machine?  But to show my kindness and understanding, I nodded, “Sure!’

 

We walked over to the drink vending machine and he pointed at a certain drink inside the machine’s window.  I nodded and he looked at me and kind of pointed at me.  I got the message:   I was to pay for it.

 

OK OK.  I paid for it.   It was $3.25.  I first thought it said $2.25 and tried that, it would not work.  He pointed at the $3.25 sign.  Damn! I wouldn’t pay that much for a drink for myself.

I put the $3.25 cents and he got his drink, happily thanked me by bowing , nodding, and stretching his arms out towards me then left.

 

I have been SHAMMED!

Terry Anderson's Cousin

 

It was on the news today that Terry Anderson died a week ago at age 76.  Terry was a hostage in Levanon for a number of years but was finally freed.

When he first became a hostage a neighbor of ours about 8 or 9 houses away announced she and Terry are cousins.

Within a week or so I drove by her house after dark and saw lights on in her backyard.  The light bulbs were on cords up in the trees. 

“Why?”  I wondered? 

“Does she even still live there?” I also wondered.

People in this neighborhood like to keep to themselves. 

Marie's Death, on this date

 Posted 1 year ago on Facebook:

On this eve 8 years ago my Mom passed away. Her death was pronounced at midnight but recorded April 27th. Miss her so much and find things she said to be true each day.

RIP with Love, Mom.

Bonnie's Death, make that 2 years

 Posted on Facebook 1 year ago.

Our baby sister Sheliah Bonita “Bonnie” Hunter (1955-2022) died one year ago today.

My Grandson & Me

 

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! HELP'S Robert Crumb & Harlem

 

I think this cartoon story by Robert Crumb in HELP! Magazine #22. January 1965. was when Robert was Harvey Kurtzman’s (editor of HELP! Assistant.  Which brings to mind the time I submitted a cartoon to HELP! and Kurtzman mailed me a note back saying he like it and his assistant Robert Crumb would send me an official acceptance. 

Crumb is considered by many to be the father of Underground Comix.

Then the next official note I received from HELP! was notified of my subscription being cancelled because HELP! Magazine was closing.

I have been to Harlem only once, and that was on February 21, 1965.    I remember that date because that was the date Malcom X was assassinated.

That was also the date uniformed military personnel was to protest the Vietnam War were in Union Square, in NYC.  I was stationed in NAS Lakehurst, NJ, not far away.  So, my friends and I piled into my old Volvo to go to the Big Apple, about 60 miles away to see the protests. 

The military put out a warning that all military in uniform protesting would be arrested.

We did not get to see the uniformed protesters; the crowd was too big.

We zigged-zagged up and down streets looking for a way to get to the Lincoln tunnel and found ourselves in Harlem.   

WHAM!  A brick hit the right-side door of my car.  Another brick flew by us.

We got the heck out from there. 

Later we heard on the news Malcom X was assassinated that day. 

I Yam What I Yam

 Bless you and don't step on my white suede slippers, What Me Concerned? And thanks to Joe L Jenkins Sr for the photo shop magi try..

OOO - La - La

 

A few weeks ago, we rode by Kennesone’s ER.  We saw in front on the sidewalk a middle aged woman sitting on a pile of clothes.  She was probably homeless and ended up at the ER, got treated, and then back in the elements, still homeless.

This week I had reason to spend several hours in the ER’s big waiting room with many other people.  I noticed there were at least three homeless women playing Hide N Seek with Security.  The security would track them down and they pointed to the door, silently saying, “OUT!!”.  One lady told him she wasn’t going anyplace until she found her money and bus ticket.  The same woman some how changed to a nurses shir and caught again.  A little later I saw her again, in a different outfit.  One lady had a shopping cart stuffed with many bright colorful clothing.  The first time the Security men ordered her to leave they walked her to the door and suddenly I heard her scream letting out strange sounds I never heard before.  It sounded like the guards were getting physical, so I stood up for a better look and she was about three feet from them screaming at them.  Later, when she was caught again, it was almost in front of where I was sitting and she screamed at them again, and I think, by the accents on words, she was screaming in French.

Our neighbor, not long ago took a friend of her to the ER and commented the Homeless is a big problem there.

Shame.

Jerry Hunter, shot down

 Posted on Facebook 6 years ago:

April the 26th, my first cousin, the late Jerry Hunter, would be celebrating his 77th year, if he was still alive.

Jerry was a F-105 pilot in the Air Force. in Vietnam. On his 34th mission he was shot down, losing is life May 25, 1966, at age 25.

Jerry was born about two and half months before me.

Another Hunter first cousin called me today and we had a nice enjoyable long talk. We ended the conversation with this thought: He said something like this, “Why do good people like Jerry live such a sort life, when a piece of work like me lives so long?”

I told him I saw Jerry’s father “Bus” looking at me and by his expression was probably thinking close to the same thing.

Adeline Bagley Buice, Roswell Mill Woman

 You head of the Roswell Mill Women? To make a long story short when in 1864 when Sherman took over the Atlanta area his men discovered a mill in Roswell on the banks of the Chattahoochee River that made things for the Confederacy like CSA uniforms and so on. Sherman had the women arrested as prisoners of war and sent them north to work in mills there.

Of the women was one of Anna’s relatives Adeline Bagley. Wife of Pvt J. Buice.

Adeline returned to her homeland many years later to find her husband had remarried.

War is Hell.

She is buried in Sherril Baptist Church near Cummings, Georgia.

Todd & Jimmy Pat

 

In a previous rambling I wrote that my parents sold the house to Todd and the deal maker was my hand-made clippings plaster to the wall. And a few years later he found himself in prison for molesting a little boy.

Wait! There is more!

The only time I came face to face to Todd when he toured our house and liked my wall stuff. But I knew of him.

My late friend Van Callaway’s aunt lived in Pine Forest. She had Todd as a boarder. Vann thought Todd was a strange bird. He loved some kind pickle fish. His aunt did not like the way her apartment smelled like fish when he ate it straight from the jar. She made a rule saying eating pickled fish straight out of the jar was forbidden. Therefore, he ate his pickled fish sitting in his car a lot.

Then a year or so after he bought ou house Jimmy Pat P visited him. I’m not sure how this came about. I speculated Jimmy P might not have known we moved and went to visit me and met Todd. Or I think it is more likely that he found out about Todd through his neighbor Van Callaway. They both lived on Phillips Drive with only one house separating them and they were fiends.

Jimmy P said he visited Todd twice. On one visit Todd showed Jimmy his military patches collection. He had all kinds of military patches. And Jimmy said Todd asked him did he want any of his patches and he picked out some.

He did not mention if he had to “earn” those patches or not.

But he said when he got across the street on the property of Larry Bell Park with Todd watching from his front porch steps, Jimmy hollowing and singing and throwing down the patches he had just given Jimmy P and dance on them and laughing.

I think that was Jimmy’s last visit with Todd.

All is well that ends well.

Todd Bought the Hunter House

 When my grandmother Minnie Victoria Tyson Hunter died in July 1948 it left my grandfather Frank Pariss Hunter alone. We moved in with him.

My parents had some remodeling done, such as underpinning; and indoor bathroom; brown outside siding; and counter and cabinets in the kitchen. It was an old house.

My grandfather Frank, died in March 1950. I moved into his bedroom. His bedroom was a smaller room off from the kitchen.

In 1954, when in the 7th grade, I discovered MAD Comicbook. Not only did I read and reread them I cut out figures to use as clip art, like getting the most out of them.

On one wall of my bedroom I used wild “Mad” clippings and attached them to the wall. I also did the same with clipping out of LIFE Magazine clippings. Each clipped figure from MAD or LIFE interacted with the figurer on the wall next to it. I wished I had taken a picture.

Daddy became chief of the Cobb County Police and it was time to buy a new house. We put the house on Manget Street up for sell.

I remember a single man by the name of Todd came to look at it. He said he would buy it.

My mother, embarrassed by my clipped art on the wall said, “Of course we will remove these cut up magazine pictures from this wall.

Todd said, in so many words, “You do and I will not buy this house.”

And he bought it, “As Is!

Todd only lived there two or three or fiyr years. He went to prison for molesting a little boy living nearby.

Emma Viola Hunter Abercrombie (1875-1973)

 Posted on Facebook 8 years ago:

Emma Viola Hunter (1896-1992), my and my Hunter first cousin's first cousin, once removed. Emma was the daughter of John Rafas Hunter (1870-1940) (our grandpa Frank Paris Hunter's brother) and Lilly Belle Hill Hunter (1875-1973). Emma grew up in the Woodstock, Georgia, area, and married Andrew Joseph Abercrombie (1891-1924) and they moved to Birmingham, Alabama, for Andrew to work in a still mill. Emma lived 96 years and Andrew lived only 33 years.

They had four children, two daughters and two sons.

Emma and Joseph are buried at Bascomb Methodist Church, near Woodstock.

India Elephant Rub-Ruba-Dub-Du

 Posted on Facebook 4 years ago:

I was in the basement today and came across this picture. It was given to me about 50 years ago by a Navy buddy, Sam Kasuske. Sam bought it in India. I think it is about 11x14 and it is a rubbing. A rubbing is rubbing a crayon or something against a paper which is spread over carved art or inscriptions. It is used a lot by genealogists in cemeteries.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD #24, 1st Magazine issue

 

The 24th issue of MAD is the first issue as a magazine.

The first of this is art by Will Elder.  Note how Elder's art could look like a photo when he waned to.

The 2nd is the magazine front cover, please take the time of looking at editor Harvey Kurtzman's art around it.  There is another sample of Kurtzman's art begging you to buy.

The movie poster art is by Wally Wood.

Me remembered?

 

Today, again,  we ate at Rally Point Grill in Woodstock.  They have several waiters and waitresses running around but we got the same one we had last time, weeks ago.

She remembered us.  Not only that, she remembered what we order last time.  Really!  When we ordered she told us last time I ordered something slightly different.  Not the meat itself, but the extra topping.

I got to say, I normally feel invisible so for someone to remember I was there and what I ordered, weeks ago, I felt complemented.  I am never remembered.

I wonder if it had anything to do with painting my bald head green and my nose dayglow red?

Proofs that Claudius Linton Foster lived

 These proofs are of Anna's mother's father's brother (or Anna's great Uncle) Claudius Linton Foster (1888-1965):

Hat on; hat off; and maybe "Do something with your hands."

Claudius was a young man in the pictures. They might have been taken about 1910.

My Tyson Ancesters Pranking the Brits, Soldering Trail of Tears, Ga.'s Gold Rush,

 and possibly witnesses the Invention of the Cotton Gin.

I  am reading a book about American history.  Now I am in a section about  the Revolutionary War, Eli Whitney, and the Cotton Gin.  Which brings me to my Tyson ancestors.

My ancestor Job Tuspm (1760—1803) lived in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.

As a young Job played a practical joke against the British soldiers and was caught, a hangable offence.

It appears the head British General Lord Cornelius pardoned Job, saying something like “Boys will be boys.”

A pardon from the enemy was a fate worse than death.  His friends shunned him.  Job had to get a signed petition among his bothers and close friends stating that Job Tyson was a loyal American. 

Job Tyson married Deltha Stanton.  They had 5 children.

The oldest was Delitha Winson Tyson (be 1778-abt 1865)  Winston professionally was a school teacher.  She never married.  She died in a home for retired schoolteachers in Augusta, Geogia.

Job and Delitha Tyson’s youngest was also named Job Tyson. 

I don’t know why or how come  but Winston Tyson, the unmarried school teacher, adopted her youngest brother Job Tyson and changed his name to Eugne Hargraves Tyson.  I suspect she wanted for young Job not to be connected by name to the one Lord Cornelius pardoned.  I wondered why she chose “Hargraves” for a middle name but after studying  their relatives and others close by the only Hargraves I found was in the nearby militia her father was a member of.

General Nathan Greene , who fought gallantry for America, in the Revolutionary War, was from another country.  The United States gave him Cumberland Island a Thank You.

It has been handed down that she applied for got a job as a teacher on General Nathan Greene's plantation on Cumberland Island, near Savannah.  It has been handed down that she had the job of teaching on the plantation when Eli Whitney came and applied for the same job.

While there, he invented the Cotton Gin with the help of Mrs. Greene and her comb.

 

Back to our ancestor Eugene Hargraves (Job) Tyson.  His stepmother (sister) saw that he was well educated.  Here is more notes on my g-g- grandfather:

Eugene's name was possibly changed from Job because the name Job TYSON had a reputation of being a Tory.

 

E.H. Tyson is on the Matriculates list for 1815 UGA Class,(A

Catalogue of the Alumni of UGA),  listed residence as Augusta Ga in married to Elizabeth Herring.

(note - his guardian D. Winston Tyson lived in Augusta - her address was probably his last known address, as for UGA was concerned).

 

Eugene was a tax collector in Clarke County, Georgia.  A Mrs. Fleming has possession of his tax collector's book.  I have held his tax collector's book. It was a small red book, inside ledger style columns of numbers with a beautiful penmanship (Edwin 'Eddie' Tyson Hunter).

 

Prior to 1832, a strongly enforced treaty with the Cherokee Indian Nation restricted the white man from the Cherokee Lands which included most of North Georgia, north of the Chattahoochee River.  Then, gold was discovered near Dahlonega, Ga., and the treaty was quickly voided.  The Cherokee Nation carried the treaty to the Supreme Court and the Court put out a ruling in favor of the Indians but President Andrew Jackson said in essence: "Let the Supreme Court enforce their ruling".  The white moved in.  The Cherokee Indians were rounded up and sent to Oklahoma in the infamous "Trail of Tears".

 

Georgia Military records 1808-1809, list E. H. TYSON as a lieutenant . He also served April 8 1820 to January 22 1821 and Dec 22 1821 to Jul 25 1822.  W. G., son of William Theodore Tyson stated that Eugene County and that he helped gather up the Cherokee Indians and delivered them to "Old Smoke Ferry" to be deported.

 

Eugene received a grant to Land Lottery number 210 of the 20th District of Early County, Ga., 16 Feb 1829 and to Land Lottery 899 of 3rd District, 2d Section of Cherokee County, Georgia, 15 Jun 1835.  It is doubtful if he ever claimed his land in Early County.

 

In library search  from Records of Clarke, County, Ga. 1801-1892 In the

Georgia Dept of Archives & History...compiled by:  Robert Scott Davis pub. by

Southern Historical Press Inc.

I found that: Eugene H. Tyson was listed:

Lt. in Clarke Co. regiment 6 Oct.

1818, 1819,

Ensign in  "                      "

 Apr 16, 1823, 1820

Militia Fines 1814-1833

Eugene (S) Tyson

1832

several "Court Case Files of the Inferior and County Courts, 1805-1895

(Record Group 129-2-2)....This series contains original, unbound papers which

formed portions of civil case files including but not limited to: Debts,

summonses, Fi Fas, Complaints, Distress Warrants, Bail Bonds, Attachments,

Promissory Notes, Affidavits, & Assumsits"

"Billiups, Robert R. vs Tyson, Eugene H. 1819...(also Billups vs. a

Capt. 1813) Robert Cabell 1812, Cyril Herring 1814,

 

Tyson, Eugene H.; Deane, John vs Billups, Robert R. 1820  (no date "A List of

men of 217th Dist., John Deane Capt.  #8.  Wm. B. Herring and #46 Eugene H.

Tyson

 

"E. H.  Tyson is on the Matriculates list for 1815 UGA Class, (A

Catalogue of the Alumni of UGA), listed resident as Augusta Ga and married to

Elizabeth Herring."

 

His gold mining claim in Cherokee County, Georgia, was located along the banks of Kellog Creek.   Kellog Creek now runs from Alatoona Lake (Alattona Lake did not exist then) to what was once TYSON property near Highway 92.  Some beleive he mined did not redeem all his gold and it was/is hidden on his farm.

 

The TYSON Family Cemetary is located about 200 feet off Highway 92 (Old Alabama Road), near the intersection of Bells Ferry Road in the Northwest corner (behind Downey's Auto Parts - 1999).  The plot contains four marked graves and two unnamed stones.

 

1850 Cherokee County, Ga. Census, 15th Division, Oct 23 1850:

Tyson, Eugene H.               53M miner           $500  Ga.

            Eliza                        51F Va

            Richard P.               22M miner                      Ga

            Thomas S.              20M                                 Ga

            Mary Ann                18F Ga

            John G.                   16M Ga

            Howard                   14M Ga

            Olin V.                     11M Ga

            Texas                      10F Ga

            Crawford                    8M Ga

            Frelinghuysen           4M                                Ga

 

 

1860 Cherokee County, Ga., Census, 15th Division:

Tyson, Eugene H.                 62                                  Ga

            Eliza                          61 Va

            C. Texas Clifford       20                                  Ga

            Free                           15 Ga

 

ATHENS GAZETTE, VOL. i, No. XXIII, Thursday, July 21, 1814

Communicated.  The Athens Academy, superintended by the Pres. of the

University, is now under the immediate direction and tuition of Mr. John N.

Scott, late of Fayetteville, NC.  This young gentleman was for several years

a pupil of the Rev. W. L. Turner, and does great honor to that excellent

instructor.  A semi-annual examination of the Students of this Seminary

closed this day.  The Examiners were the President, and Professor of

Languages of Franklin College, the Rev. John Hodge, and Dr. Wm. Wright. The

first class, consisting of H. H. Tigner, Jesse Paulett, Leroy Holt and

Thacker Howard, ere examined ... The second class consisting of Robert

Carney, Crosby Dawson, Milton Holt, Homer Howard, Benjamin Rutherford, Eugene

Tyson, were examined on Virgil's Georgies ... The third class, consisting of

Thomas Baldwin, Robert Full wood, Robert Jones, George King, Lucius Lamar,

Joseph and James Loving and John Stuart were examined on ... The fourth

class, consisting of John Billups, Pulaskie Holt, Samuel Oliver, John Park,

Thomas and Alfred Scott and James Scott, were examined on Caesar's

Commentaries & Selected Profanis...  The fifth class, consisting of (9 men)

were examined on three books of Caesar's Commentaries...The sixth class,

consisting of Thomas Baldwin, Charles Betton, Crosby Dawson, Milton Holt,

Leroy Holt, Thacker Howard, Homer Howard, Samuel Oliver, John Park, Jesse

Paulett, James Scott, Hope Tigner, Eug. Tyson, Turner Willhite, and Robert

Wallice were examined on English Grammar ...

 

>show Thomas Moore was the Tax Collector - from a newspaper on Sept. 7,

1815"Athens Gazette"

 

 

Athens Gazette, Apr. 6, 1815 - List of letters remaining in the Post Office

at Athens the last day of March 1815  ... Job Tyson , Robt. J. Cabell, & Dr.

Gerdine...

 

Athens Gazette, Apr. 11, 1816 - List of letters remaining in the Post Office

at Athens, first Apr. 1816 ... E. Job Tyson ...

 

Athens, Thursday, July 27. (1815).  Order of Commencement (Univ. of Ga). On

Tues. evening, was presented the Tragedy of "Abra-Mule, or Love and Empire".

Dramatis Personae - Briscoe, J. Lamar, Wm. H. Flournoy, Watkins, Cooper,

Baxter, Langston, R. Flournoy, L. Brown, Goode.

 

On Wed., A Salutator Address in Latin ... by Henry Hull.  On the Peace - by

Miles C. Nesbit.  Phillip's Eulogy on Washington - by R. H. Randolph.  An

Extract from an Oration delivered 4th July, 1812 - by E. Langston.  On

Eloquence - by O. H. Appling.  On Patriotism - by Joseph W. Jackson.  A

Comedy, called "Abroad and At Home" - L. Q. C. Lamar, John King, James Lamar,

Dawson, Briscoe, Appling, Paulett, Newton, Charles Mathews, Thomas Scott, R.

Banks.  Women:  Goode, Roberts, Tyson, Col. Elliott's Oration on the benefits

of Science - by W. Briscoe.  On the Character and Privileges of the Female

Sex by Jabez P. Marshall.  Degrees conferred by the Pres.  A Valedictory

Oration - by John M. Erwin.

 

Athens Gazette, Apr. 6, 1815 - List of letters remaining in the Post Office

at Athens the last day of March 1815  ... Job Tyson ...

 

Athens Gazette, Apr. 11, 1816 - List of letters remaining in the Post Office.

 

Edwin “Eddie” Tyson Hunter, Jr