J has scanned Grandaddy's journals, five notebooks full of recollections and hopefully we can get them online asap! He has found several photos in them as well. I will type them up also so they will be easy to read.
Family, we need old black and white photos too. Wouldn't it be cool to post them online so we can all make copies? I have some great ones of Daddy, Grandma Mayberry and her parents, and some old guy I can't identify. Once I get them scanned I will post them and hopefully someone will know who he is.
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
HS Moore Ancestry Blog Up and Running
So far, so good. The blog thing seems to be a good start for gathering, posting info on the ancestry of the HS Moore clan. Got a tidbit from Daddy Pete today confirming that yes, Grandma Inez Sims Moore Mayberry was indeed a local union organizer at the Danville textile mills during the early decades of the 20th century. She worked with regional organizers to recruit locals, meeting them at her home.
Pete reported to me in his usual taciturn, crusty style: "Two of the union guys came to our house for, I assume, consultation and planning-------what did I know?. I was a kid. I remember they got me a pair of moleskin "riding pants" to go with my hightop boots.
I will attempt to attach links I found online that follow some of the union activites in those days of unfair employment practices, pay, working conditions, and harsh treatment. For you young'uns who want to know more about unions and working conditions in the mills and factories that brought our country out of the rural past, I recently saw a fascinating movie called Harlan County Kentucky about the violence often sparked by union protests. It was set during the 1970's and is a trip back in time, a powerful and realistic depiction of mountain folk back in the day.....Beddow/Breeden/Lawson folk! Wow.
As with the Beddow-Breeden blog, family members and friends can come online to add or correct information or just find out stuff about their family.
Pete reported to me in his usual taciturn, crusty style: "Two of the union guys came to our house for, I assume, consultation and planning-------what did I know?. I was a kid. I remember they got me a pair of moleskin "riding pants" to go with my hightop boots.
I will attempt to attach links I found online that follow some of the union activites in those days of unfair employment practices, pay, working conditions, and harsh treatment. For you young'uns who want to know more about unions and working conditions in the mills and factories that brought our country out of the rural past, I recently saw a fascinating movie called Harlan County Kentucky about the violence often sparked by union protests. It was set during the 1970's and is a trip back in time, a powerful and realistic depiction of mountain folk back in the day.....Beddow/Breeden/Lawson folk! Wow.
As with the Beddow-Breeden blog, family members and friends can come online to add or correct information or just find out stuff about their family.
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