Where I Come From...

While we were trick or treating the other night, my dad was hunting for buried treasure in our family tree. As of late he has found great joy & pleasure from speaking to the older generations to get stories and looking though family Bibles and boxes of photos. I, like him, enjoy hearing the tales of grandparents growing up. Sharing some interesting (or not so much) facts about where I Come From:

1. a road named after my dad's family - Cardwell Rd.
2. a small community belonging nowhere - Bells Chapel (named after a church of course)
3. by belonging nowhere I mean - voting in R'ford; Dyer Zip code; and Y'ville phone extension - talk about major confusion growing up
4. a mom that lived amongst the spirits and dead growing up. Seriously, she grew up in a spooking looking house that has some very interesting stories to be told of premonitions (ghosts) roaming the halls. Oh - how I love to hear those stories - you will get chill bumps on your arms!
5. on my mother's side - one of my ancestors came from the Middleton family in VA-the same Middleton family that signed the Declaration of Independence. Pretty cool!
6. a great grandmother named Queen. No kidding! In fact, she wanted me to be named after her & my mother - Queen Lizabeth. Thank God my mother didn't listen!
7. a great-great grandfather that guarded a bridge @ the age of 13 in the Civil War. His name was Paris - who later built the spooky house my mother grew up in.
8. it has been said of the house I grew up in that the Union propped their guns on the front porch. Of course, the house has been redone since then, but still an interesting fact.
9. a great granddaddy that owned a dime store - a cousin has the old timey cash register.
10. my granddaddy use to own his own knife sharpening shop - watch your fingers after he gets finished!