Old Countryside Images

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  1. Yvonne Smith

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    That post is in the Ancestry thread, @Von Jones . My daughter, Robin, had been out exploring along the Tennessee River and found an old graveyard, and she took Bobby and I out to see it the next time that she went.
    When we looked it up online, there had been a town there called Cottonport, which had died out for some reason during the 1800’s. Most of the headstones were unreadable, and some places were just depressions in the ground where there was an unmarked grave.

    http://aigcemeteriesii.weebly.com/centerstar-cemetery-limestone-co-al.html
     
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    Fascinating @John Brunner. We have a chapel/crematorium a coupla kilometres from us.
     
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    These are all good, Craig.

    They seem to be harvesting tobacco but that's not how we did it. Here's how we did it.

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    There was a looper and two handers on each side side of the tobacco truck. The handers made the leaves into bundles, handed the bundles to the looper, and the looper looped them onto the tobacco sticks. Then the sticks were hung in the the racks. At the end of the day, the primers came to the barn and hung the sticks of tobacco on the racks in the barn. The farmer fired up the burners and cured the tobacco. One of the best smelling things I ever smelled was the tobacco just before it was ready to take out of the barn.
     
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