First time for everything

I think Patsy is right, it is fall.  Middle of August and highs in the 70's all week.  Maybe the sun is going to shine for a while though.

Today is bill pay day.

Tomorrow is open house at the school.  I will go and Greg if he is local.  He has been working in Holister so far this week so he should be here tomorrow.

South of the Dan...

Betty's photo of The Dan in Halifax County, VA got me to searching for photos of the area.  We know that Charles Powell and his father-in-law, Anthony Gholson owned acreage south of The Dan in Halifax County in the 1770-1780 time frame.  Anthony's land was bordered by The Dan, and I believe Charles Powell's land also was on The Dan.  Charles' land is described being on Licking Creek and Deep Bottom Creek.  I have never found either of these creeks on any Halifax County maps, either present day or in the 1700's but I have seen many land descriptions from this time period naming these two creeks.  I had a one time determined that Charles Powell and Anthony's land was close to present day Turbeville, VA.  I know they were located somewhere between Danville and South Boston.  Anthony Gholson's land patent says his land was as below:

Halifax Co. Land Records Book 10 page 265 Dated 10 Feb 1777 Anthony Gholson of Louisa Co. purchased of John Williamson of Halifax Co. for 125 pounds 225 acres "lying and being on the South Side of Dan on the lower side of Deep Bottom creek...Down new Road" bound by John Dickies, William Wiley and Joyn Raney, Joseph Talbert, Elizabeth Miller-  "its being a tract of land bequeathed to Jacob Miller by the last will and testament of Harmen Miller Dec.  and conveyed by deed from the said Jacob Miller to John Williamson"

I have found a photo on the web of William Wiley's tavern, taken in the 1930's.  Cornwallis and Nathaniel Greene both used Wiley's tavern as headquarters at different times in their 'Race to The Dan.'  This tavern was located on VA Route 58 about 6 miles south of South Boston, VA.

When I look at Google Maps, I see areas along The Dan that appears to be bottom fields and other areas that look pretty rough like the terrain  of West Virginia.

I also know that Asher Reaves owned Charles Powell's land in Halifax and sold it back to Anthony Powell, Charles' eldest son.  In searching today, I found that Asher Reaves married Diana Miller. Anthony Powell married Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Elizabeth Miller.  I guess Asher and Anthony were likely brothers-in-law.

Sunday News

We are getting 6 to 10 eggs a day now.  Yesterday we got this weird looking egg.

Brother was getting his roof patched, yesterday.

Hannah took grandma down to the graveyard.

It looked pretty good.

Hannah said take a picture of the donkeys.

more dead

Goats on the hill.  We don't even shut the gate anymore.  They don't bother anything as far as I can tell since we fenced in the dogwood. 

We bought Robert a new mattress set.  I mean to get a full size, but it turned out to be a queen size.  So, we had to do away with the head and foot of the bed.  It looks nice and he likes it.

Moving on in...

Son's renters have moved out and he is in the process of moving back in.  This is the view from the edge of my yard.  He is moving his RV down there too and planing on renting it out to someone.  It will set in the lower corner of the yard facing this way.

George and Robert were in hog heaven yesterday.  He pushed over the old shed and burned it.  Crash, Bang, Burn.  Robert's favorite things.

This is the view from his gate.

Where the tractor is will be about where the RV will set, maybe a little above that to be above the little trees.  There are 5 or 6 little trees that have grown up here in the last few years, will sorta bushes.  But, two of them are persimmons and my advice would be to cut the persimmon bushes down.  We will see what they do. 

This is the view from about where the front door to the RV will be, facing this way.

Son's driveway, again.

Some of my Rose of Sharon that I transplanted last year.   A purple and a white planted together so they look like one plant with two different colored blooms.

It still rained a little dab last night.  I think it is supposed to be sunny  today, but that just means very humid and sticky outside.  I may stay inside.  The boys are planning on starting laying the electric and water line for the RV today.  They will use George's little backhoe to put the lines underground.  As wet as it is, George said it would be easy digging.  Robert will love that.

Goodbye...

Kelly Tone in the news...

At Harrison Daily Times, online edition.

For Patsy's blog friends that do not recognize him, that is Patsy's son, Tony, standing behind his boss, Nancy. The city of GF was honoring her son by naming the street in front of the school for him. Our Debbie always called both of Patsy's sons Kelly Tone.