Saw on your web site the pictures of Big Springs Church as it looks today. Thought you might want to add this picture of how it looked years ago, probably in the 20's.
Left to Right: #1 Charles Majors, #2 Ethel Dunsmore, #3 (?), #4 Sarah Dunsmore, widow of Nathan and Mother of #2 and #5, #5 Verna Dunsmore, #6 Claude Hurst, others not identified.
It's been years since I had any contact with you. I surely do admire your site! Lots of work. Good for you. Phyllis Cotter
Hello! I took these pictures
just because I was there. I am sorry it was not in my head
to do them to share with other genealogists. Shame on me! I was just so excited
to be there at all! I am sending them all to you as someone might find them
interesting. I do not know if you are in the area. They are putting thru
a new highway, straightening and widening and they just missed taking this
church out. It may have been saved because of the new church across the street,
closer to the highway. I am not sure how access will be when it is done in
the next year. There are numerous places (brown circles in the grass) where
stones used to be and are just nubs, broken off at the ground. I tried
to do a site map and show what direction I was pointing the camera when I
took the pictures. There is more than you want to know I am sure. The interesting
thing is when I stopped at the gas station across the hwy to ask if they knew
where it was, no one did. A woman happened to come in and overheard and pointed
across the Highway. You could see it from the counter. I was lucky she stopped
by! If you have any contacts in the area I would love a picture of
the Hurst mill, and a picture of the area. I have a number of them from the
Highway up the Little Sycamore road but I didn't know Bailey drive was the
road I took to get to the Hurst Mill. My Miller's Daniel Jr and Thursie
Ann Miller Jones and various other family members married many of Tazewell
founding families. I have found that when Daniel Sr. died in 1837, Hugh Jones,
Thursie's husband bought the acreage from all of Thursie's siblings. In those
documents they use the Hurst land as a boundary and I would like a picture
of the mill (or where it was) to give me a feeling of what the land they
settled on looked like. Anyway that is my Christmas wish list :-). It may
mean another trip from Colorado some year to get one but I thought I would
ask, just in case. You may use these pictures anyway you wish. I regret
not thinking about doing a more thorough job of photographing the Springdale
(Big Spring) Primitive Baptist Church. I will probably have to send these
in a number of emails as AOL hates big files and refuses to send them.
If you use any on your site could you send me the link? Thank you for
all the work you do for those of us that had family in the area years ago.
Robin Landgren GGGGrandaughter of Daniel G. Miller, Sr. and Sally/ Sarah
(possibly Tobler) Dlandgren@aol.com
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Hurst mill is Identified on the map.
It may be a copyright thing, they add so they know if someone else is using
their maps. I am hoping Hurst mill is really there. Up Little Sycamore and
down Bailey lane. If you use the aerial, the pictures are a couple of years
old but you can see something there. Just can't get right down on top of
it to see. I remember going by Bailey lane but didn't have this map with
me or I would have checked it out. Not sure where my Miller's place
was from Hurst's but I know it was next to it somewhere. The documents of
land transfer to Hugh Jones from Herrold, Hiram, Daniel and Leander were
500 acres + each and I know the Hurst's had a large presence in Big Spring
too. They must have owned quite a chunk of what I could see from the highway
by the church and as I went on up. It was pretty emotional for me to be
there. Those people were a hardy lot! There are stone vaults at the
Big Spring Baptist and I imagine with a little water you might be able to
see who they belong to. There may have been another marker I missed but I
think I got most of them. If you are related to the Hursts then I guess
we are distantly related too. I remember a Miller marrying a Hurst further
down the line. Thank you for your love of Tazewell and the area and
your site! Robin Landgren Dlandgren@aol.com
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This picture is of Big
Springs, Tennessee and is from an old Postcard and is stated that on back of postcard. I am hopful someone
will email me the conformation of this being on Little Sycamore Creek. Courtesy of Tina Lephew, Union County. Tina also says this is of Springdale in the early days. She also has a copy of this postcard, but this one I purchased on eBay.
Joe Payne
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