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From: "adamscd" <>
Subject: Re: Adams, Reynolds, and stuff.
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:12:11 -0500


here is a short dialogue between a cousin and me.. you may be interested
in...

>Yeh, I get to help you!!!
>
>At the time of her death the Socialist group called "Ruskinites" owned the
>property that the family cemetery is on.. they would not permit future
>burials... there. Now, they may have used it themselves...I dont know
>about that. So when Nancy died they buried her in Edgewood as it was the
>closet community cemetary.
>There is information about the Ruskinites in the Yellow Creek book.
>
>
>heck...I am related to probably half the folks in Edgewood... Yellow
Creek..
>I just don't have the genealogy down yet...
>
>Benjamin is buried on a hill on the corner of Dry Hollow Road beside a
>house... up behind a barn...(we call it the Rome Ellis property) Dad and I
>offered to buy the land.. No response from the owners.. I would love to own
>that cemetery.. and clean it up ... Dad said up on that hill the
Ruskinites
>had a print shop.. as a kid he found gobs of lead type.. they used to haul
>em off by the pockets full.. chuck em at each other and with sling shots..
>He said he used to find gob of arrow tips too..
>
>Benjamins brothers stone is visable.. a newish stone for his parents is
>standing.. and a bunch of STREETS are up there... but, cattle grazing ..
and
>maybe vandalizm .. or just neglect is taking its toll, If you are
>interested you may want to go there ... we can follow each other or what
>ever over the Homecoming weekend..
>
>Nancy and Ben had a son, Samuel Hickman (aka: Maj) Adams. (my Great Grand
>daddy) He loved to talk... too much. The story goes that he had been
>plowing a field by the road..and as a traveler came down the road he would
>stop the team and hang on the plow handles.. and chat.. for quite a while..
>then resuming work until the next traveler came by...not accomplishing the
>amount of work that his mother, Nancy thought should be done. Because of
>this, one of his brothers was sent to the roadside field and he was sent to
>a back field so the fields would get plowed ....
>
Cher

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