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Re: Puritans


All right, I checked with my mom, and here's the story:  Lewis Walker Quarterman, my great-grandfather, would have been about fifteen during the occupation of Liberty County in 1865.  He was just the right age to smart off to an intoxicated occupying soldier and think he could get away with it.  Well, he almost didn't, and our family branch almost stopped there.  The family home was in Walthourville, and according to Mom, it would have been built by the third Thomas Quarterman, son of Thomas Q. Jr. and Renchie Norman.  

Anyhow, that bullet stayed in the house until it burned down in about 1902 or -03, when my grandmother, Dandy, was 5.

Then a "new" house was built.  Mickie Leonard, on the Quarterman family discussion list, talked about visiting Aunt Sadie, my grandmother's sister, who lived in the "new house" for many years.  She described the dog trot you used to get to the kitchen.  I also visited Aunt Sadie in that house with my grandmother and mother once when I was very young.  

My, the history we can share when we pool what we know!!

-Connie



--- message from Slongcoy@aol.com attached:

Well, I got interested in my family history when I was 10.  We had a large reunion every year,  singing, eating, games, etc.
Mine was spent at my great grandfather's knee, (Joseph Paschal Baker) telling me and others about the place his relatives came from, which was Midway, Ga.  The most wonderful people from all walks of life and went into just about every field.  Teddy Roosevelt was one of those.  His mother did water colors and she gave her best friend one of these.  Years later after she had passed away, Teddy visited the area and my cousin, one of the Bakers.  gave him the watercolor.
I have never been to Miday, would like to before I die, but I would differ with you on the watermelons.  The best sweetest watermelons come from Hope, Arkansas.  Monticello was the home of my birth.
Myrtle Joyce Wright Longcoy