Another OBTW … did you ever meet Uncle Henry? He was the youngest of the Jones boys and I think maybe in the family. I can only remember meeting him one time. He seemed to be a lot younger than my grandfather. A real lively fun lover as I remember. He joked and laughed a lot. I am sorry that I did not have any other occasions to spend time with him. There is or used to be a dirt road, kind of a short cut to Clanton from hiway 22 a few miles above the Mitchell dam road. It came out right near where I65 crosses what used to be called Higgins Ferry Rd. It now has a county road number and is the main road to Lake Mitchell. Anyway Uncle Henry lived on that road between the Corinth area and the Concord/Walnut Creek area.
I tried plowing with a mule a few times. They were very instrumental in shaping my future almost as much as working two years in the cotton mill. Ramble Ramble
Hope that isn't too confusing.
I do recall the name, Uncle Henry. I don't think we ever met. If we did, I was too young to remember. I knew Uncle Calvin and Uncle Alpheus, any of the others I may have met, but didn't get to know them. I really should get back into our roots thing. When we ever get past our recovery mode, now that I've retired, maybe I can do that.
You should come this way and we'll head for Chilton Co. for a few days.
You must have met uncle Arthur. He was Gene's father. Gene lived in the original Jones home 100 yards or so from uncle Calvin. I didn't realize his house had once been the house that I remembered when our great grandmother died. She was 94 and her name I believe was Lucinda. I was in the 4th grade when she passed away. Our family went down there. Gene had radically change the appearance over the years. He had a daughter named Patsy who also lived with them and eventually built her own house. Uncle Arthur was also the father of the young girl Ruth who died from polio. If I am not mistaken uncle Alpheus was the father of Dora Forbus. Boy I would love to spend some time there just roaming around. Don't know how I can make that happen.
You wrote, "Boy I would love to spend some time there just roaming around. Don't know how I can make that happen."
I have a solution. Take a look at your GPS destinations from 24 Dec, 2017 and Thanksgiving Nov, 2018. Just adjust your setting to a destination 100 miles or so to the west and stop in Sylacauga. Let me know the date a few days in advance and I'll meet you in Sylacauga and we'll "make that happen". We will never get to do that any younger than we are today!