1956 OLYMPIAN - Ads

Sauls for shirts and Coggins for shoes. Those are where my mother carried me most, it seems, for school clothes.

VARNER'S REUNION

April 24, 2010

Remember what a good time you had last year at VARNER'S REUNION? Remember the old friends there? Did they remember you?

It is that time again.

Mark the date on your calendar's and go to bigarns.com and make reservations.

See you there!

1956 OLYMPIAN - Ads

I remember Shaw's Barbecue. It was across the 4-Lane from Barnes Mill Road and a pasture. You can see the pasture in the background. It is amazing, or sickening, how the landscape changes. Stick around a few generations and it will change again.

My Tyson Genealogy - Part 9

35. JOHN6 TYSON (AARON5, MOSES4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1)15 was born 1737 in , , NC, and died 1791 in , , SC. He married MARY MAY Abt. 1765 in , Pitt Co, NC.

Children of JOHN TYSON and MARY MAY are:
71. i. JOB7 TYSON, b. 21 Oct 1770, , , SC; d. 1824, , Glynn Co, Ga.
72. ii. WILLIAM TYSON, b. Abt. 1783, Beaufort District, , SC; d. 15 Jan 1860, Rapides Parish, La.


36. ELIZABETH6 TYSON (DANIEL5, EDWARD N.4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born Aft. 1735 in , Hyde, NC, and died Unknown. She married THOMAS SWAIN. He was born Aft. 1735, and died Unknown.

Child of ELIZABETH TYSON and THOMAS SWAIN is:
i. THOMAS7 SWAIN, JR..


37. MARY6 TYSON (CORNELIUS5, CORNELIUS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 06 Apr 1748 in , Pitt, NC, and died 03 Jan 1800 in , Pitt, NC. She married BENJAMIN MAY 25 Nov 1765 in , Pitt, NC. He was born 17 May 1735 in Scotland, Pitts, NC, and died 08 Aug 1808 in Farmville, Pitt, NC.

Notes for BENJAMIN MAY:
Job Tyson sold land to Benjamin May.
-Judy Tyson Raymond

More About BENJAMIN MAY:
Burial: Revolutionary War Memorial Cemetery
Military service: Major in the Militia

Children of MARY TYSON and BENJAMIN MAY are:
i. JOHN7 MAY, b. Aft. 1765.
ii. WILLIAM MAY, b. Aft. 1765; d. Unknown; m. SUSAN FORBES; b. Aft. 1765; d. Unknown.
73. iii. BENJAMIN MAY, JR., b. 1768; d. 1815.
74. iv. SALLIE MAY, b. 10 Dec 1773, , Pitt, NC; d. 19 May 1829, Stantonburg, NC.
75. v. MARY 'POLLY' MAY, b. 10 Oct 1780; d. 17 Oct 1846.
vi. CLARA MAY, b. 1782; d. 1834.
76. vii. JAMES MAY, b. 1784; d. 1825.


38. JOAB6 TYSON (MOSES5, CORNELIUS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born Aft. 1737 in , Pitt, NC, and died 1825 in , , Ga. He married ANNA JOYNER 1790 in , Pitt, NC. She was born 1770, and died 1820 in , , Ga.

Notes for JOAB TYSON:
Joab and his wife Annie Joyner moved their family to Georgia to work in turpentine but the family tradition says that they all died of typhoid fever except John Joyner Tyson.

Children of JOAB TYSON and ANNA JOYNER are:
i. OLIVER7 TYSON, b. Aft. 1786, , , Ga; d. Unknown.
ii. NANCY TYSON, b. Aft. 1786; d. Unknown.
77. iii. JOHN JOYNER TYSON, b. 1814, , , Ga; d. 1868.


39. ABRAHAM6 TYSON (MOSES5, CORNELIUS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born Aft. 1737 in , Pitt, NC, and died 1802. He married HONOR. She was born Aft. 1737, and died Unknown.

Children of ABRAHAM TYSON and HONOR are:
i. DICEY7 TYSON, b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown; m. AMOS WILSON; b. Aft. 1750; d. Unknown.
ii. JACOB TYSON, b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown.
iii. TEMPY TYSON, b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown.
iv. ELIZABETH TYSON, b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown; m. BENJAMIN FORBES; b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown.
v. BOWEN TYSON, b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown.
vi. HONOR TYSON, b. Aft. 1753; d. Unknown.
78. vii. SARAH "SALLY" TYSON, b. Abt. 1780; d. Unknown.

Fewer Teenage Drivers? Huh?

I remember the day I turned 16 I got my driver's license. I went to the Cobb County Police Force office on South Cobb Drive there and took a written and driver's test administered by the Georgia State Patrol. Everybody I knew got their license as soon as they turned 16.

If you knew someone 16 or older that didn't have their license you thought it was a little bit of an oddity.

It is not so much of an oddity now days.

In 1988, only 44% of teenagers got their license as soon as they came of age.

In 2008, the figure dropped to 30%.


Maybe the insurance as skyrocketed for teenagers*. Maybe they want to be seen driving only status-type of cars which is out of their allowance-range.

Maybe there are not as many teenagers in the part-time work force as there used to be to pay for their vehicles. Possibly immigrants are doing the lowly status jobs the teenagers used to seek and also regular adults having a difficult time making ends meet in today's economy.

I don't have any answers. I'm just wondering. I also wonder who wrote the book of love.

*I once heard that it is not "If your child will have his/her first accident, but when".

1956 OLYMPIAN - Ads

If you are sharp you probably noticed that the first page today was the last page yesterday. There is a reason for that. I am trying to insert any memories I have of any joints advertised. I let Jones Drug store slip by me, so I would like to talk about Jones Drug Store. First, they had a small drug store as part of the Strand Theater complex. There, many years ago, my mother-in-law worked for them. She makes very tasty potato salad. She learned how to make her potato salad from Doctor Jones, he taught her how. He would buy a live chicken, wring it's neck in the back of the store and also pluck the feathers, and then, I suppose clean it, then boil it. And the rest is merely details.

Later Jones Drug Store moved out Roswell Road across the street from Roswell Street Baptist Church. I hung out there some to read their magazines. Mrs. Jones seemed to all over the store all the time. She also had Dickie Thomas' mother assisting her displaying the merchandise and behind the lunch counter was Cora J., who was very popular with the high school students and a shy timid girl who never charged me for anything I ordered from her.

For some unknown reason, I remember one of Doctor Jones' fingers was mostly gone. I don't know why. Maybe a chicken decided to stand up for its rights, an animal rights thing.

Another GOBAG Meeting Down the Drain

Hello Willie Johnson! Wherever you are. Willie, Brad M. told me you look at Chick-Fat and try to make sense of it. Thank you for the attention.

We had a good turnout last night. About 25 of us materialized and left behind whatever other life we have and met ate, drank, and giggled.

Monty cooked pizza in the kitchen, which was sort of comical because he didn't know how many people to expect. About twice as many as last week came so he had to keep his eye on the crowd he made his pizza dough and make more and more. The pizza was delicious. After that was topped a big scoop of ice cream with chocolate syrup.

I made another feeble attempt at the movie business. I know there are mistakes. I watched it several times. I think I figured out one thing: Don't move with the frigging camera in the record mode. For one thing you see confusing motion and other thing, I think the camera lens has to refocus every time the camera stops moving. It would be much easier on the eyes if I moved it to look at something while it is not recording the same time.

So, next time you might not get quiet the ride you got on this one. But first, you must live through this one.

Another thing - It must be confusing to the viewer to put up with the chatter coming from all directions. The chatter is unimportant unless you happen to be one of the chatterers. Why? A dumb camera operator.

I'm working on that. Actually, if it did what I thought it was suppose to do, you would not hear and other bodily noises but the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", but, you know me.

Well, here goes nothing (and I mean that):

1956 OLYMPIAN - Ads

My father-in-law was the manager of Veach Wholesale Grocery. When he retired Mr. Veach closed it up.

Company Person

Once I heard someone say, "There is nothing more valuable than a dedicated employee." A dedicated employee is a rare species.

71% of office workers said they would trade their passwords for a candy bar.* How's that for dedication?

*- Uncle John’s UNSINKABLE BATHROOM READER, P 182-183

1956 OLYMPIAN - Back of the Book Ads

The Varner's ad here has been studied and scrutinized in the past ten months. I bet not as many people looked at it in 1956 as people did in 2009.

Remember the old Johnson Tire Service building? Here it is to jolt your memory. I worked next door at the Big Apple Grocery Store and every Saturday evening Mrs. Stocks (her and her husband owned Johnson Tire Service) shopped at the Big Apple. Then she expected a sack boy to help her with the cart down to the tire service. She was a lousy tipper. However, none of us mind carrying her groceries down the street - whichever of us made the trip down got to take his time and smoke on the way back.

Hi Judy!

Friday evening we were returning from Atlanta late. Well, late for us; too late to go home and cook. I think it was about 7:30.

We decided to try out a new restaurant that was only about a mile away. The name of it is JUDY’S COUNTRY COOKING on Sandy Plains Road in Marietta, Georgia, next door to BIG LOTS in a shopping center next to Sandy Plains Baptist Church.

She has the word BUFFET on the front to let you know it is an “all you can eat” place. And others see the word Buffet and instantly think PIGOUT!

Before in that same place was a pizza buffet place. Surprisingly, it did not draw much of a crowd.

Country Cooking Buffets are here and there. The food has to be good or the customers will thin (in more ways than one) themselves out. You need word of mouth endorsements and return business.

JOHN-BOYS, the same type of buffet, on Canton Road does well. The food is delicious and it is hard to find a parking place there. It appears that an Asian group owns and operates it. They do an excellent job.

GRANDPA’S COUNTRY BUFFET lasted a while but finally went under. There are a couple more country buffets here and there. Some last, some don’t. I’m sure the taste, quality, service, and cleanliness are major factors in the success of restaurants of any type.

Now we have JUDY’S COUNTRY COOKING. It fits all the above.

We went down lines and made our selections. The fried chicken looked delicious, and it was. So was the fish. The vegetables were good too. After I was seated I saw that someone had potato salad and a deviled egg. I had to go get that too.

All the food was delicious and the place was very clean. Not bad for $6.13.

An Asian lady walked by me wiping tables and straightening our chairs and maybe a table that wasn’t quiet in line with another one. I looked up at her and did a double-focus. I knew her. She glanced at me and also did a double focus. She knew me too!

We hugged. She said she was so glad to see me, and I felt likewise and told her so. We were co-workers at the Post Office. We enjoyed each other’s company, in a buddy-buddy co-worker kind of way.

Her name is Hy and she is Korean. She speaks in broken English. Maybe not “broken” but stiff English. I asked her about her daughter that was going to Georgia Tech before I retired. She is now going to a college in Virginia studying to be a doctor. I remember her husband was an artist. I saw him at a distance with some tools fixing something.

Hy owns JUDY’S plus three other Country Buffets. She told me where they were, but with my retention problem the names of the cities went in one ear and out the other. I do remember one is in Greenville, South Carolina.

Shortly after I retired they changed Hy’s job to one she didn’t like, so she quit. It must have been the best move she had made in a long time.

I decided I would drop by there this morning about 10am, hopefully before they opened, to take a picture of the exterior for this blog. While I was outside with my camera, two female workers inside saw me and quickly disappeared. I tried the door to stick my head in to tell them I was making a blog and found myself looking at Hy smiling. I greeted her, as I did for years at the Post Office, saying, “Hi! Hy!”

Marietta Scene

1956 OLYMPIAN - Advertisers Introduction

You could have gone without seeing this picture. It is, of course, one picture that takes two pages to give it justice. No one is in to be recognized and bring up old memories. But it is just a good black and white night shot of old Marietta. In the background you can see the old Cobb County Courthouse.

It is just the kind of night you would see me, a few years before, rush out of the Strand Theater or Cobb Theater after seeing a scary movie and quickly running by every moon shadow. And down Atlanta Street, still sprinting by every shadow and turning onto East Dixie Avenue.

SUNDAY FUNNIES - CHICKAMAUGA

Above is my uncle Tom Petty posing in front of a Civil War memorial marker at the Chickamauga Battle Field Park in north Georgia, about 15 miles west of Dalton.

Chickamauga is just up the road 80 or so miles. I remember as a youngster our family would drive up that way to visit my grandmother, aunt, and little tot cousin that lived in Rossville, Georgia. Our route took us through the Chickamauga park. The park is probably nearly as big as, if not bigger than, the Gettysburg Battle Field. Gettysburg and Chickamauga has something in common: More people were killed at these two battles than any other; Gettysburg, being the 1st and Chickamauga being the 2nd, or so I heard.
I also read some someplace that nearby Chickamauga Creek, in Indian talk, translates to Bloody Creek. But it was named that before the battle.

Abraham Lincoln’s brother-in-law, Mary Todd’s brother, lost his life at the Battle of Chickamauga. He was an officer for the CSA.

This story is from EC Comics' FRONTLINE COMBAT No 8.

It is illustrated by Georgian native Jack Davis. Notice the composition. I think Jack Davis’s composition of humans in action is just overwhelming.

As in all of EC war comics of that time period, the story was written by Harvey Kurtzman. I noticed more than a few times Kurtzman shows that war spares no one, not even the young.

No More Days for Alice Horton

Soap Opera DAYS OF OUR LIVES' Frances Reid died this week at age 95. She played Alice Horton, the matriarch of the Horton Family, and also she was the last of the original DOL cast.



We have been fans of Days for thirty plus years. I don't watch it every day but enough to know what is going on. I can go two or three weeks without watching it and pick up on the same story. I guess that is nosiness or voyeurism in me to want to watch the interaction of what seems to be real people, but watching from a distant, far removed. I noticed that Grandma Horton hasn't been attending family functions lately. She must have been under the weather for a while.


That old Days Hour Glass just ran out of sand for Old Alice.

1956 OLYMPIAN - 8th Grade 8th/Last Page

This is the last of those little 8th graders. In this they look like fresh little cheeping chickadees but in real life presently they look like rusty old farts.*

On this page I see old friends Ed West*, Larry White, and Steve Tolbert.

*except Ed West. Ed has hardly changed at all.

My Tyson Genealogy - Part 9

This whole report today is focused on one person, my Great-great-great-great grandfather Job Tyson. He had an interesting life. As a young man or teenager he played some sort prank on the occupying British soldiers, which, at times of war, things like that was punishable by death. For some unknown reason General Cornwallis pardoned him - which apparently caused some family members and neighbors think he went over to the other side to become a Troy. Which, he evidently had to get written statements to prove otherwise.

34. JOB6 TYSON (JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born Bef. 1760 in , Pitt, NC, and died 1803 in Hancock or Oglethorpe, Ga. He married DELITHA STANTON, daughter of JAMES STANTON and ELIZABETH THWEATT. She was born Bef. 1770, and died Bef. 1803.

Notes for JOB TYSON:
Branded a Tory? Frederick TYSON (brother) signed a petition for Job TYSON, classified as Tory.

North Carolina Colonial Records, Vol 16, pages 580-81 shows the following:
Petition from Pitt Co., NC, Martainborough, 1 Apr 1782. For pardon for Mr. Job TYSON (who broke his parole from Lord Cornwallis and went to South Carolina). Signed by numerous citizens including Aaron TISON, Frederick TISON, Cornelius TISON, William TISON, Jonathan TISON, and many others.

Leonardo Andrea File, page 6, #32:
A petition signed 1st day of April 1782 re Job TYSON, now a resident in the State of South Carolina and who desired to return to his home in Pitt Co., NC.

"Job TYSON as a very young man had taken a brave part in the Revolution with the American forces, etc., etc. When Charleston was captured, Job TYSON took a parole from Lord Cornwallis and because of that, he was now classified as a Tory"

The petition was to allow Job TYSON to visit his family in Pitt Co., NC and to take from his name the stigma of being a Tory.

"Land Deed Genealogy of Hancock County, Georgia", compiled by Helen & Tim
Marsh. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc. c1997. page 253.

Page 159: 21st January 1800. Nicholas Huse and Ana Huse of Washington County to John Grigg of Hancock County for the sum of eight hundred dollars for a tract of land in Hancock County on a branch of Fort Creek, containing two hundred acres and adjoining William Grigg's line and along Arrington (illigible) line and by Job Tyson's line to Epps Brown's line and by Cain's
land. Signed by Nicholas Hughes and Anne Huse. Wit: Wm. Grigg and Seth
Kennedy. Reg: 2nd May 1801.
Hancock Co., Ga. Deed Book E (1798-1802)

1790 Census, Page #: 147
Pitt Co. NC
Ages in household: 01-03-02-00-00 (rethink )
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NC Colonial Records
"Petition from Pitt County.
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To His Excellency Thos. Burke, Exqr., Governor of the State of North Carolina, and the Honourable Gentlemen of the Council:
The Petition of the Inhabitants of Pitt County Humbly Sheweth: That Mr. Job Tyson having taken a Parole from Lord Cornwallis as he was passing through this State and hath not acted an Inimical part against it, so far as to take up Arms, but he being young and apprehensive, that his conduct was sufficient to bring him to severe punishment, left this State and went into South Carolina so that he being ignorant of the Several Proclamations offered to Delinquents could not Avail himself thereof.

And as the sd. Job Tyson had before taken an active part in Defence of this State and freely Turned out as a Volunteer in Defence of this State when the British first Reduced Charlestown and a person intirely young, and we doubting not but if he Should be received again as a Citizen but that he will become a useful member of Society. We, the Subscribers, do hereby recommend & Humbly Petition to your Excellency & Honour to Pardon him, not Doubting in the least but that his Conduct hereafter will prove Sufficient to merit the approbation of all good Citizens."

Martinborough, April 1st, 1782.
John Hardee, J. P., Jonathan, Aaron, Wm., Frederick Tison
James May, George Sugg 47 names in all
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New entry April 15th, 1782

"Permitted Job Tison to repair to any Continental Officer to enlist for twelve months or otherwise to furnish a substitute.

Major McCauley will be so good as to send a messenger for the County Commissioner unless he can be assured that he will be in very early in the morning.

If the Major can appoint a discreet man to borrow some provisions for the troops I will take care that the Commissary General shall replace it in kind received of an equal quantity." End for that day.

Source: Land Deed Genealogy of Hancock County, Ga. by Van Schaick 1997

Georgia Tax Digests, 1789-1799

TISON, JOB HA/ra (County/district) 1794 (Year) 033 (Page)
==============================
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Job Tyson info (con't)

Source: Some Ga. Co. Records Vol 4 by Lucas Page 296
Wills
Pages 123-125. Will of Willis Whatley dated 1 May 1799 land on Green Brier Creek in Greene Co.
Wit: Job Tison, Zerob. Williamson, Sarah (+) Basor
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Source: Some Ga. Co. Records Vol 4 by Lucas Page 327

"Pages 163-167. JOB TISON, dec'd. Inventory dated 29 Dec. 1803. Negroes named: Lucy $250, Rachel $400, Aggey $400, Edey $325, Philip $450, Wil-----$450, Isaac $450, Joel $450 Ne---$300, Dinah $250, Aaron $225, M-----$200, Fi------$75, Br-----$150, Mary $150. Several counterpins, bolsters, curtains, quilts, nice furniture and dishes, dictionary, Church Bible, books, farm equipment and animals. Book Accounts: Bryant Butler, Henderson Collier, Thos. Carrell, Joel McClendon, William Thornton. Total not given, but over $6201.60. s/D Henderson, Andrew -----, Zorl -----,appraisers. Sworn before Jno. Crowder, JP 30 Jan. 1804. Note that vouchers showing money paid out registered on page 261."

Source: Some Ga. Co. Records Vol one, Lucas Page 103
(note page 102 has Epps Brown's name as Admnrs of Lundy Huff. Brown was a land owner near Job's land)

'DELITHA TYSON, Admnx. of JOB TYSON dec'd and JOHN HERBIRT and MILLER ABERCROMBIE Security bond for $12000 dated 10 Dec. 1803."

Source: Some Ga. Co. Records Vol 4 Lucas page 670

"Index to Headright & Bounty Grants of Georgia"

JOB TYSON, grantee Hancock (location of grant) EEEEE (Grant Book)
462 (page) 37 ½ acres granted 1803 (year of grant)
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Source: Some Ga. Co. Records Vol One Lucas Page 253

"Hancock County Georgia Deed Books 1794 - 1802"
"Page 159: 21st January 1800. Nicholas Huse and Ana Huse of Washington County to John Grigg of Hancock County for the sum of eight hundred dollars for a tract of land in Hancock County on a branch of Fort Creek containing two hundred acres and adjoining william Grigg's line and along arrington (illegible) line and by Job Tyson's line to Epps Brown's line and by Cain's land. Signed by Nicholas Hughes and Anne Huse. Wit: Wm. Grigg and Seth Kennedy. Reg: 2nd May 1801."


from Ga. Archives:
a 10x14" sheet
#462 ...State of Ga by ....John Milledge (gov) etc. etc.do give and grant to
Job Tison
37 1/4 acres in Hancock
NorthWest by Job Tisons land; South East by D. Hamiltons land; North East by
John Cowders (Crowders) land; and South West by Hargraves's land"
dated signed by the Governor Nov 16, 1803....Registered 16 day of Nov 1803
"in the year of our LORD...and in the twentyeighth year of American
Independence."


Notes for DELITHA STANTON:
I need to insert this someplace: When I first started researching the TYSON family, I had information that Delitha's maiden name was HAMBY.

The first child of Job and Delitha was named Delitha Winston Tyson; thus, indicating Delitha's marriage to Winston occurred prior to her marriage to Job Tyson. The fact that her former husband's surname was combined in the child's name might indicate Delitha was carrying the child when James Winston died or that the child was adopted after the second marriage took place
-Stanley Tyson

"DELITHA TYSON, Admnx. of JOB TYSON< dec'd and JOHN HERBIRT and MILLER ABERCROMBIE Security bond for $12,000 dated 10 Dec. 1803"`

Source: Hancock Co., Ga. records, page 193, "Some Ga County Record, vo1. Being some of the Legal Records of Columbia, Hancock, Jefferson, and Warren Counties, Ga." compiled by The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. Southern Historical Press, c1977.

1805 - Delitha TYSON drew land in Wilkinson Co., Ga. - Judy Tyson Raymond (1999).

This person had folks on Fort Creek also.
Bombshell - Delitha remarried!
- Judith Tyson Raymond, 1999

Hancock County Georgia
Court of Ordinary Minutes

1799 - 1817
Compiled by:
J. Kenneth Brantley

Published by:
The Brantley Association of America

Page 104

At a court of ordinary that was began and held in and for the county of
Hancock on Wednesday the 6th of July 1803. Present their honors: John
Coulter, John W. Devereux, Brice Gaither, William Rabun. {Justices}

Page 110

Delitha Tyson applies for letter of administration on the estate of Job Tyson
dec'd Ordered that citation be published accordingly.
Page 114

On Saturday 10th day of December 1803. the court met agreeably to
adjournment. Present their honors: Brice Gaither, Jno. Wm. Devereux Wm.
Rabun {Esquires}

Page 115

Ordered that letters of administration be granted to Mrs.Delitha Tyson on the
estate of Job Tyson dec'd; Whereupon it is ordered that Duke Hamilton,
Anderson Comer, Zerobabel Williamson & John Crowder or any three of them be
and they are hereby appointed to appraise on oath the personal estate of Job
Tyson dec'd. {"rec'd $5" listed in Margin}
Page 151

At a court of ordinary held on Friday the 8th day of February, 1805. Present
their honors:

William Rabun, Stephen Evans, John Crowder {Esquires}

Page 155

Mrs. Deletha Tyson returned an account of vouchers for money paid of the
estate of Job Tyson dec'd to the amount of four hundred & thirty four dollars
& ninety three cents - also said administratrix returned an account of sales
of said estate to the amount of eight hundred and ninety eight dollars thirty
one and a quarter cents.

Page 222

At a court of ordinary held on Monday the first day of December 1806----
Present their honours: William Rabun, Stephen Evans, Richard A Blount, John
Crowder {Esquires}

Page 226

Whereas, Deletha Tyson, administratrix of the estate of Job Tyson, dec'd,
hath applied for leave to sell a tract of land containing three hundred acres
more or less, lying on the waters of Fort Creek, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of the said deceased and whereas the said Delitha hath lately
intermarried with John Herbirt-Ordered that the said John Herbirt do sell the
same agreeably to said application and advertisement.

Page 260

Monday 6th July 1807, The Court met agreeably to adjournment-present their
honours William Rabun, Stephen Evans, Richard A. Blount, Boling Hall, John
Crowder {Esq's.}

Page 261

John Herbirt in right of his wife administratrix of the estate of Job Tyson
dec'd returne'd an account of the sale of three hundred acres of land, for
three thousand and twenty five dollars.
- transcribed by Judith Tyson Raymond (1999)

Children of JOB TYSON and DELITHA STANTON are:
i. DELITHA WINSTON7 TYSON, b. Bef. 1778; d. Abt. 1865, Augusta, , Ga.

Notes for DELITHA WINSTON TYSON:
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.

1850 Census in Augusta, Ga., she is listed (#856) with with several other women. She was probably living in a house with other elderly single women.

1901
City of Augusta, Ga.
Mayor's Office
September 30th, 1901
Mr. Jack Tyson,
#1922 Gurnee Street,
Anniston, Ala.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 25th received and contents noted.
Mr. Bredenberg, the City Sexton, has looked over the Cemetery records, and cannot findwhere Miss Winston Tyson was ever buried in our cemetery. I do not know any one in Augusta who can give any information about Miss Tyson.
Regretting that I cannot be of service to you, I am,
Yours truly,
Jacob Phiniy (x)
Mayor C. A.

She Adoped brother Eugene H. (Job) TYSON and had him educated



More About DELITHA WINSTON TYSON:
Occupation: School teacher
Residence: Never married

ii. ELIZABETH TYSON, b. Abt. 1780; d. Unknown.
69. iii. KINSHIAN TYSON, b. Abt. 1783; d. Unknown.
iv. JOHN JONES TYSON, b. Abt. 1788; d. Unknown.

Notes for JOHN JONES TYSON:
When their father died he collected his share of the estate & left America.

70. v. EUGENE HARGRAVES JOB TYSON, b. 30 May 1798, , , Ga; d. 30 May 1868, , Cherokee, Ga..

Keith R. & Wolfgang Amadeus M.

"Rolling Stones Keith Richards listens to Mozart every day."*

When I read the above fact I found it hard to believe. I believe Keith Richards knows his music and does appreciate other musicians. Once I read that after he was famous he traveled with some blues musicians in the Mississippi Delta backing them up. That made me have more respect for Richards.

But Mozart? I like Mozart. It has a certain bounce and/or gloom to it that I don't think normal classical music has, except maybe Bach, not that I am an expert or anything. But Keith Richards listening to Mozart every day? That is hard to believe.

Then it occurred to me. I bet he rides an elevator every day.... or is that Muzak?


*UNCLE JOHN’S TRIUMPHANT 20TH ANNIVERSARY BATHROOM READER, p55

1956 OLYMPIAN - 8th Grade 7th Page

Hey look! There is Paul Roper, on the top row, of course.

There are at least two self-made millionaires on this page, probably more. And I bet there also is a bunch of others that never use coupons.

GOBAG Moving On up - continues

Here we go again!

This video was taken February 2, 2010, at our new smokeless free environment upstairs at the American Legion.

This is another one of my videos.

I know, I know. This is far from perfect. This is a new toy and I am practicing. Who knows, one of the GOBAG members might slip on a banana peel or fall down a flight of stairs or fall out of a window drunk… and it might make America’s Funniest Videos and then I might win and win $100,000... that's what counts!

Seriously, I am still experimenting and don’t know what I’m doing. I hope they get better with time.

You Are Welcome!

Today is the National Thank A Postal Employee Day.

I retired from the Postal Service after 33 years. I still can't sleep through the night because of a torn rotator cuff pain and carpal tunnel.... but that is OK. I had the pleasure of serving you (me rolling my eyes).

You are welcome, thank nothing of it.

I Googled Postal and mail and all that kind of stuff looking for some kind of visual image and I came across the above hiring sign for the Pony Express. It says "Orphans preferred". It also said, "not over 18". It also said being wiry & skinny was a requirement. That was before my time.

1956 OLYMPIAN - 8th Grade 6th Page

Some people on this page brings back plenty of fun memories.

The infamous Jimmy Pat Presley is on this page. They have it spelled "Pressley". I am not sure that is right. I think people have talked about Jimmy Pat just about more than anyone I know and I don't think much of it was complementary.

Jimmy died several years ago. He bent over to pick up his little dog and out he went.

Norman Rockwell Was Born This Date

Norman Rockwell was born February 3, 1894 and died November 8, 1978.

I think he was a talented genius capturing people interacting with each other. Most of his paintings seem just, well, so typically American. So typically Saturday Evening Post American at the time he illustrated them.

Things have change.

The background has changed. There are less big shade trees and more nondescript building; less pastures, swimming holes, old wood bridges, and so on, you get the idea.

The people and their styles have changed too.

But, I think the interaction of people that Norman Rockwell depicted still lives. They are universal and not so American as worldly.

The GOBAGgers Are Moving On Up

Yesterday we met upstairs at the American Legion. We were escaping the dark murky smoky basement bar. It wasn’t the darkness or the murky of the downstairs bar that bothered us but we just couldn’t stand the smoke. That smoke smell all over your clothes? Eewww!

Of course we can’t wait until the weather breaks and we can comfortably be back outside cooking and having in the barbecue pit a big fire – which swallows us in smoke.

The GOBAG social went well. We talked and had drinks and sung happy birthday to Sandy. She graciously hid her head.

Monty said when the weather permits he is going to cook catfish outside.

Paul, David, and I talked movies. We are movie buffs. The bad thing when three old farts start talking about movies frequently they cannot remember the name of the movie that is on the tip of one’s tongue or the name of the actor…. or the actress he is married to. One of us was trying to think of Nicolas Cage’s name and he tried naming his ex-wife, which he could only remember was Elvis’s daughter, or Nicolas’s uncle’s movie…GODFATHER? ACROPOLIS NOW? For everything we tried to remember we took three or four steps backward in the think-process.
But it all worked out, we thought of something else to talk about.

The video pictures came out good I think. I am not having much luck uploading it to the system. Maybe the DSL lines are weak right now. I’ll keep trying. Stay tuned.

1956 OLYMPIAN - 8th Grade 5th Page

I don't remember having noticed this before and I don't think anyone else did either, or surely they would have told me.

On this page I was identified as Frank McKenzie. If there is a bureaucratic mistake to be made, I get this blunt of it. I specialize in being overlooked... not having the right name with your picture, that is a type of "being overlooked" isn't it?

The Gods Have Spoken - Early Spring

Gen. Beauregard Lee, Georgia's official groundhog Spring forecaster for Georgia, did not see his shadow this morning, therefore, there will be an early spring, no question about it.

Marietta Scene

South Park Square and the First National Bank Buiding. This picture was taken before Coggins Shoe Store and The Book Store took their rightful place on the Square and in my mind.

1956 OLYMPIAN - 8th Grade 4th Page

Parks, Tommy Hadaway, Larry Holcomb, and more G's & H's.

My Daughter-in-law, the Entrepreneur

The other day at my sister Bonnie’s belated birthday dinner, Sabrina furnished cupcakes for the dessert after we had scoffed up the dinner food. The cupcakes were delicious. At the last birthday dinner she furnished French macaroons for dessert. They were delicious as well.

We took some leftover cupcakes home in a box from her new bakery, Crumb{a Bakery}, which has the above neat logo.

Sabrina has started her own business. It is a bakery that offers gourmet cupcakes and French macaroons for special events, such as weddings receptions, business meetings, parties and such. Her business is licensed and rents a professional kitchen for preparation as required by law.

It always amazes me how calm Sabrina is. As far as I have witnessed, she never raises her voice and is very focused. When under pressure, she will calmly focus on her subject with the pressure of time and tempers building around her, coming out smelling like a rose.

Also, to give credit where credit is due, Sabrina has an able bodied assistant, her husband Rocky, who also keeps things running smoothly. Rocky keeps the books, frets over costs, delivers the product in a timely fashion, and gets to lick the spoon.

Click here for her website to see her fine culinary art.

1956 OLYMPIAN - 8th Grade 3rd Page

There are a bunch of notable people on this page: Monty Charles Calhoun and the rest.