INDEX of American Legacies Events and Functions
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Fannie L. Prothro: A Glance At The Past
A short distance from our house there was a creek, fed by a spring up on a hill with a waterfall that was about five feet high. This was where Mama washed our clothes in a zinc tub. Papa went along to carry the bundle and make a fire under the black iron wash pot. Mama put the clothes on a big wooden block and paddled them. She boiled them and rinsed them in three tubs then carried them home and dried them on a clothes line.
Our social life was built around the church. They had singing conventions. I remember Papa and Mama would always go. A teacher came to teach singing and we always attended. Mama sang alto and I loved to hear Papa sing. I think these meetings were in the summer when the crops were laid by. They had books with shaped notes (now the notes are round). They would have dinner on the ground and preaching once each month.
We lived ten miles from Groveton, the county seat of Trinity County. The road was graded and the men who lived in the district worked the road. They used oxen to pull heavy logs over it to make it level.
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American Legacies Org. Needs Your Help
We would like to start by thanking the Wike and Held families for their gracious contribution of 7 ½ acres of land complete with multiple buildings that can be used for handicapped accessible office space and a training center.
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Legacy of Gilbert Weaver
Interview with Gilbert Weaver
Franklin Wike:
Gilbert, we're going to start on your legacy aspect. I want to start talking about your father.
I would like to know his full name and if you know the date and location of the town where he was born.
Gilbert Weaver:
As far as I know, my dad was born in 1912, February the 12th of I think 1912 and he was born in Daviess County Kentucky.
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The Greatest Christmas Gift Of Your Life
The Greatest Christmas Gift Of Your Life
When Christmas time comes around,
many people cherish the joy of giving gifts
to those individuals they love.
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Jay Allen Doyle Legacy
Interview with Jay Allen Doyle 3-19-25
Q: Where were you born?
A: I was born right here in Spencer County. So was my sisters and my dad. Dad’s full legal name was Jay Oscar Doyle. His nickname was Pat. My mother was Edith. My grandpa built this place.
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Memories are not a motion picture.
American Legacies Org is a nonprofit organization run by Christians that are dedicated to working with and for Senior Citizens mentally, physically as well as emotionally.
Memories are not a motion picture. They are individual snapshots of something you saw, heard, felt, tasted or smelled.
After all, one of the many lessons some of us have learned over the years is that just because we can remember something today, there is no guarantee that memory will still exist next year.
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2025 FREE CHRISTMAS AND THANKSGIVING MEALS
We need YOUR financial help to share FREE Christmas and Thanksgiving Meals with Senior Citizens that are unable to share the holidays with local family members.
Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays inspire us to think about being surrounded with family, food and fellowship. They also bring on the highest amount of suicides each year, for individuals that don't have family or loved ones to share the holidays with.
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A HISTORY OF TROY INDIANA
Stephen Saalman
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