American Legacies Org Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving historical information about People, Places, and Things.
This is a FREE service where you can post and share the memories, stories and photographs of your parents, grand-parents and other loved ones, in order to preserve their LEGACIES for future generations.
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.
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.
American Legacies Org is holding their annual Free Christmas Dinner and Party for Senior Citizens complete with good music from the past and Cash Reward for the Most Festive Outfit.
There will also be Legacies Representatives Present to sit and talk with any seniors that come in alone.
This year, American Legacies Org has arranged to sponsor a FREE Thanksgiving Meal to EVERYONE within a driving range of Owensboro KY.
We are collaborating with the Greater Vision Baptist Church, 4733 Sutherland Road, Owensboro, KY., in order to provide a traditional Holiday meal with Turkey, Ham, and all the sides.
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.
It will contain a variety of information, including about his memories of life and family, as well as a variety of his Religious, Inspirational, Motivational, and Romantic writings from over the years.
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.
In the spring of 2026, three American Legacies Org, Inc. volunteers named Franklin Wike, Ruthann Wike and Michael Hamlet conducted an interview with Tom and Vickie Braun from Spencer County, Indiana. This interview was captured on video and audio recorders.
Following is the text of the audio recording.
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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.
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.