city limits. The house is gone now, even the chimney. The only thing holding it up
was termites holding hands!
It was a great old homeplace. It had two chicken houses, a smoke house, a 1-car
garage (never a car in it, though), a rabbit pen, a hog lot and a dog lot too. Oh
yeah, I forgot about a BIG garden spot. Sounds like a big farm, huh?…all this on
less than one acre!
It seemed like 100 acres to me, especially the garden. I HATED to work in the
garden. My dad had a “special” way to plant everything. He didn’t plant anything
until the 4th of July. The tomato plants looked as if they ran across the horizon.
Thin the corn, hoe the beans, shade the tomatoes and water all of it. Did I mention
I HATED to work in the garden?
Thank goodness for our Farmers Market. In season, now I can get up about 8 a.m.
on Saturday morning and go pick beans, corn, vine-ripe tomatoes, okra and lots
more “stuff” from the tail gate of someone’s pickup truck! Life is better!
County. Though semi-retired he still acts as
Senior Consultant and Associate Broker with
the company he co-founded 35 years ago,
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mile radius was kinfolks, or if they weren’t, I didn’t know the difference.
My grandfather owned the old farmhouse where I lived. My Mom and Dad moved in
before I was born to take care of him and my grandmother in their old age. At that
time I also had a big brother and big sister. (Later, two more sisters came along) If
you do the math, that’s four adults and three kids living under the same roof!
The old house had about 1000 square feet of living area. Was it crowded?….To
be truthful, I don’t remember. It had to be. No running water in the house, and a big
coal burning pot-bellied heater in the living room and a small wood burning stove
in a back bedroom. One of my chores was to keep the coal scuttle full of coal at
the kitchen door and a pile of wood at the back door.
Baths were taken in a bug washtub out back in the summer and in the kitchen in
the winter. The “bathroom” was a good 25 yard dash from the house. It was a two-
holer. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it? Not at all. We never knew the modern
conveniences so we didn’t miss them. In 1958, hot running water and a bathroom
were added to the house. It was only then we knew how terrible it had been.
neighborhood…My next door neighbor was by dad’s first cousin and just above
her house was my dad’s uncle and one of his daughters lived with them…This
would have made these sisters my SECOND cousins…Right? Wrong!! They were
my AUNTS…I never had any cousins or cousin in laws. They all became my aunts.
Don’t ask me why, but all the kids (grown kids too) called them Aunt this or Aunt
that or Uncle this or Uncle that. I even had an “Aunt” that lived across the
road…she was possibly my dad’s third cousin once removed, but still she was my
Aunt Addie. Where is all of this going? I don’t know. I just find it interesting that all
of my life I thought these people were my Aunts and Uncles, but they really weren’t.
I really didn’t know any difference until a few years ago.
Here are just a few interesting Kin Folks Facts that went on in my family. There’s
more than a few, but I’m gonna just tell about one or two in this article. I guess
most of you know by now that I’m a Lindsey. Obviously, my dad was a Lindsey…his
dad…his dad… and his dad. That’s as far back as I have checked. My great,
great, granddad was named Joshua (not his real name, but I can’t think of it right
now) Lindsey and came to Pickens County in the 1830’s. He came for some of that
“Free Land” that we took away from the Indians. He got 160 acres of land on the
north side of Jasper and to this day every inch is still owned by my Kin Folks (but
not my immediate family). Joshua’s(?) son, John Fair Lindsey, Sr. was the High
Sheriff of Pickens County in the 1870’s. He had several sons and daughters and
one of them was my grandpa, Arthur Lindsey.
In the late 1800’s he married a beautiful young woman whose last name was
Trippe. Now this really opens up a can of worms!! That makes me Kin to anybody
born in Pickens County past 1830, north of the city limits of Jasper, up until 1950!!
If you don’t think that’s the truth, check the census records!
Just one interesting side to all of this, my grandmothers mother was a Hood before
she married a Trippe. I was always told as a child that the great General John Bell
Hood was my great-great Uncle, but that’s for another article too…
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