This is harder than I thought. The more I write, the more
holes I find in my research and I have to go back and track down the missing
pieces. The information that Sheldon has provided has been a great help but it
also points out missing pieces.
We are planning a trip to Tennessee.
Hopefully, if we get there, we can find some of the missing information. It
appears that most of the records we need are in the Knoxville
and Nashville archives. What are
missing are the birth and death verifications that would make this so much
easier.
Back to the story of Martha Jane. In her letters, she
mentions the river being high. They had a river farm but it is hard to
understand if you live on the flatland without water being close by. Some of
the pictures that we got today are of a flood in Sneedville in 1963. The only
difference I can see in the pictures is that the road is paved and there are
electrical lines. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been much different in the 1918 flood.
This is the house. Like I said before, it will not be moved. The water is lapping at the porch but not getting through. Hardy people build hardy homes.
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