LoL I already did those 😜🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😜 I will pass it on but not much control for somethings can not be done through the cell phone yah see

@@desirreemarlenaclonch7593 Thank you my friend

The 1790 - 1810 census states the majority of settlers to the Appalachians were English, followed by Scottish, some households state English and Scottish, 10 Welsh households, 8 German household, 1 French, No Irish, the term Scots/Irish is a bad term for the English and Scottish planters that went via Northern Ireland, most went from Northern England and lowland Scotland, a sizeable group went from Suffolk/Norfolk and the west country, that's where the accent comes from, English man Daniel Boone cut his way through the wilderness, English man Walker built the first log cabin, there's nothing more English than clogging.

@@hetrodoxly1203 thanks for sharing your thoughts

Thank you for creating this wonderful Video. I love seeing real History in story form complete with real photographs!!!

Indeed- the people of Appalachia are a strong proud people

I’m from Logan county myself

I miss W Virginia. Moved to CT at 13 and have always wanted to go back. A damn shame what drugs have done to that special place.

Lucas? From SW WV? Yup, we are related👍

Im from Northern Ireland, the home of the ulster scots. Very interesting to see how many of my people went to live in such a rugged place. Hard people living in a hard land. The ulster scots here today still have the same values, god fearing, family driven and conservative views.

I am always amazed at how far these videos travel and the stories that folks like yourself share. Thanks so much for your story, I enjoyed reading it very much

Wow!

What's the name?

Hello, from Texas. I had forefathers that came over from the Isle of Man who landed in North Carolina, and Tennessee. What is the name of your family?

@@WhispersFromTheDark Thanks for the reply but I'd rather not say the name openly online. By the way I can see the Isle of Man from the top of the hill my home is on most days it's not raining. Though it usually is.😁

Thank you for that!

Yes, we have men who are fickle, impulsive, and selfish today, not with an ounce of integrity in them, and do not know when to stand for something righteous

@@TheChadPad what men are you talking about? All the veterans I've met are calm, patient, mature, and don't wanna go back. Some do, but they love killing. That's a thing. Most people don't have that.

@@Nannada1212 Some young people of my generation. I am 28

@@TheChadPad I'm 31. I knew we were from the same time.

Well said

I'm glad you have the pot from grandma

My granny got married around 1900 and they walked down to the 5&10 store and bought a pot. On the bottom of the pot has the price and date. Before she died she gave me that pot and I still have it. One of my prized possessions. God rest her soul. 😢. Peace and Love

That sounds so cool ❣️💯 I'd love to have something that special from my ancestors.

That's funny. A covered wagon? After the Civil War? Some one blew smoke up your butt! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Thanks 🙏

Likewise, watching from Scotland. Great channel and info. Keep it up 👍

The Highland games are at Grandfather MTN. Was annual until Covid.

@Opal Allen ❤

This is just a glorified story. Do your research and you will get an in-depth story of the horrible and disgusting things that happened.

Thank you for that beautiful testimony of your grandfather

How did the trees die?

@@cac2821 there was a blight introduced to North America in the early 1900s believed to have came from Asia. It attacked the Eastern Chestnut, and would damage the trunk and the bark near the ground, causing the trees to die. Interestingly, the roots of these huge trees lived for many years, and some of the root systems are still alive today, and will put up sprouts. These trees grow to three or four inches in diameter, then die from the blight. They have found one Eastern Chestnut tree in Talladega county Alabama that is over 12 inchrs in diameter that is believed to have come from some of that old rootstock. The tree is alive, healthy, and has started bearing chestnuts. Biologists are studying trees like this one, as well as if you more Eastern chestnuts that have somehow survived. The total number of trees that have survived is less than 25 that are large enough to bear fruit.

@@cac2821 I would encourage you to look up the Eastern Chestnut. You can find a lot of information online about the demise of this species. The Eastern Chestnut made up 25 to 35% of all the timber in the Appalachian mountains before 1900. Literally tons of chestnuts that were rich in protein or available for wildlife, as well as for people to eat. They were very nutritious, and at times poor mountain people would actually live off eating these chestnuts when they did not have anything else to eat.

@@terrylyons3577 thank you for explaining it to me. That’s devastating

Yes ma'am, so do I. There are plenty of their stories on this channel. I hope you enjoy my friend

Yes, me too. Amazingly strong people that is for sure.

People believe anything they hear on the internet

​@@TheAppalachianStorytellerborn and raised here in the Smokies except for my Army Time and our culture is under attack from these Florida Alabama etc rich ppl bought up our land where we locals can't afford it. Change our laws etc.

​@Keni How being from the appalachian mountains 99.9% of these are very real and true.

That’s a hell of a woman- I enjoyed reading that!

I’m from southern West Virginia.❤️

@@SJ-ni6iy We are in McDowell County but only about a mile from the Wyoming County line just off of Rt 16. Browns Creek. My family has been here at least 170 years according to what I've learned on Ancestry. But I think much longer. My fourth great grandfather received a land grant in 1858 from the governor of Va for 200 acres that crosses from the head of this creek into the head of Pinnacle Creek in Wyoming County. The hand written document mentions certain trees as boundary markers! Chestnut oaks, Sycamores, etc.

@@bradlane3662 I’m from Raleigh County but it’s near the Boone County line. I’m from where the Upper Big Branch Mining disaster happened, that’s my community. My family has traced relatives, that have been here before the Civil War.

@@SJ-ni6iy I know your home area very well. For the last 34 years of my working life I drove a delivery truck all over southern WV and southwest VA. Including Boone and Raleigh Counties. Our warehouse was actually in Beckley for the last 15 years of that time. I delivered to accounts in Madison and Danville.

yup, her and her daughters (Presley girls) are doing a great job!

💜

My great grandfather once owned land I the Shenandoah valley,then to Pocahontas Co.,riders gap,then cross lanes,wv,family graves in VA. And wv.some of the first there besides the indians.i an proud that I inherited these bloodlines.

Yup, from the Rhineland to NewJersey then Pennsylvania, Virginia through the Cumberland Gap.

I'm Irish-German too. I agree ❤

There were a few. Not many. I live in the ridgeline parts and only 2% of my ancestry is German. 96% came by way of Britain.

Of course my friend

strong bloodlines my friend

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller AMEN Brother!

@@Big88Country amen

I'm from Ulster Northern Ireland Carrickfergus

​@@spaghetti_legs . I also hail from Norn Iron in Co, Down

Indeed, it’s slipping away from us

Yup, the usa is more third world than they like you to think.

@@soisaidtogod4248 💯

Amen

Yeah, the devil's water!

Thank you Traci

ur dog died dude

Get another dog soon as possible they are your best friend. Thay will not use you like people do. Am I right.

@@riffle8883 Right , treat them right and you get forever love .... and they are out there waiting for a life with a decent person ..

I'm sorry 'bout Spooner.

That’s cool, i never thought about that

It's just a glorified story. They live a horrible incestual life. Fathers and Brothers raping their daughters/sister while the mother listen in the same room.

@@kenihow the story of the people of the Amazon is a tragic one, too. They are a people ignorant of the wonders of the civilised world and live in a dark violence, untouched by the light of Christ and civilisation.

There were a lot of secrets too. Isolation bred some unhealthy generational traumas. May we all learn and heal.

@@VivaCristoRei9 As in some urban areas.

I actually do remember and have things to share about these revivals. I almost covered it in this video since it was closely related. Im sure ill post something soon :)

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I look forward to it! Thanks 🤗

@@KathysTube yes ma'am, stay tuned

Please explain what a Christian Church is as opposed to a Baptist. I am confused by that statement.

@@blumobean Since I've only visited Baptist churches, I can't really explain the difference... from what I know, not that much...I think there are more "rules" in Baptist but..? I'm sure you could find out from doing a search online...btw, there are differences within the Baptist churches too 🤗❤️

Indeed, I have to admit, It broke my heart to tell the story of the Chestnut, one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Earth.

I'm only 60 years old, and already I hardly recognize where I grew up. It saddens me down to my bones.

@@davids6533 the world is changing so fast, at warp speed

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller has no one tried to replant the chestnut trees now

@@slidenapps well, scientists are currently crossbreeding the asian chestnut (which has resistance to the fungus) with American Chestnut (which produces superior wood) to create a species that would essentially be about 95% American Chestnut. Hopefully, they succeed.

It’s one of great tragedy’s in the history of planter earth

A guy on Vermont KZfaqr Gold Shaw Farms attempting to grow chestnuts.

@@eunicestone838 there are lots of folks trying to alter their genetic makeup to become resistant to the asian fungus. Even if successful, it will take 10,000 years for them to dominate the Appalachian Mountain tops like they once did.

Thank you for sharing my friend

My daughter is married to a Mccoy. He's from pike County Kentucky!

Any chance they were of the Leslie/Lesley clan? That would be my dad's family, back a few generations, first permanent European settlers of the Big Sandy Valley.

Good people

Yeah and this is how you destroyed local Indians who lived there much longer than you

Proud of destroying what the natives had so as your Sky Fairy cult could stay? Another arrogant usa outlook.

@@soisaidtogod4248 💜

@@HazelnutEr The Cherokee people that were native to this region were wronged by the Government . However my family came here from the Ulster region of Northern Ireland where they were wronged there and forced to leave . They came here in search of freedom and a better life. When attacked by anyone or anything they would naturally fight back but didn’t come to harm or fight . They had quite enough of it and didn’t want to fight but if called to do their part they would.

Well said my friend. I feel the same

Wonderful!

That’s a heck of a story!

Mind ovr matter 💪🏽 🙏🏽

@@incognitonegress3453, You go pick a fight with her. I know who my money is on. LOL

thank you!

Glad to have you here my friend

Indeed, hard times - hard men

What a rich family history, thanks for sharing my friend

Lots of Germans settled along with scots and Irish up in them western nc and east tennessee hillsides by the mid to late 1700's. I have plenty bloodlines from them groups of immigrants.

It is said that in Southern Appalachia the Germans built barns, the English built churches, and the Scots Irish built whiskey stills.

well said my friend

💜 thanks for sharing

Wado! I am of Scots Irish and Cherokee Nation descent and wondered why there was nary mention of us as the first and original people there.

@@charcat1571 exactly right, long before any mentioned even made it there!

@@charcat1571 then whose stopping you from doing a segment on these relatives? I would watch. I wonder who the native people of any land anywhere in any part of the world at any point in history all hold contempt against those who migrated into their land? This could be in fact, a possible reason different tribes hated, enslaved and killed other tribes. Same thing happened and still happens in some countries around the world. African tribes did the same thing and still do. All men of every race creed and color have at some time been exploited by all races creeds and colors. The devil likes it when we keep blaming each other and hating each other. To steal kill and destroy mankind has always been his goal. We will keep pleasing him. It is in the nature of man to sin. Born in sin. Shaped by our iniquity.

So do your own piece about it, would love to hear and learn.

Thank you my friend, greetings from East Tennessee

Wow!

Thank you friend!

Thank you my friend! Welcome home 💜

Thank you my friend :)

Yup, good catch

I got a kick out of that as well.

Had a place at the Tellico head waters the Tellico was about 8/10 inches wide still caught some trout then the Yankees came I left

Pole cats and skunks are two different things. There are pole cars and there are skunks. Avoid both at all costs! 😂 One way to tell the difference is that a pole cat has one solid stripe down and that’s how it got the name pole cat.

Indeed. There are several more inaccuracies by this uneducated person.

Be sure to check our channel out, there are over 100 stories told by him

as you should be!

I enjoyed reading your story

Indeed- thanks for watching and sharing

With todays crazy stuff happening..we would survive knowing all the old ways..just think we ave abit of an advantage with better equipment or supplies..

Amen 🙏

Sounds like what my Grandma used to say to she was from Kentucky

👍

Thanks brother

My pleasure buddy

Man, I would have love to have seen a 600 year old Chestnut tree with my own eyes. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong generation.

💯

That’s awesome! Thank you 💜

Thanks for sharing my friend, I’d love some chestnuts

A lot of them need fertilizer. They need a pot of phosphorus and nitrogen.

Ohio is trash yank state

Thank you for your poetic comment, that means a lot to me.

Gods country

Thanks for sharing I enjoyed reading your story

I had never had a conversation with anyone from south america or mexico until my sister married a first generation born american man of mexican descent. Come to learn from him that his cultural attitudes and many norms and taboos were a close match to my eastern ky upbringing. A great lesson for me.

Thanks you

Thank you sir!

thanks for sharing and welcome to the channel!

I have always considered Scots to be the originators of the Rebel Yell.

Stay ready brother, it’s coming

God bless you brother

Wow, what years was that?

We still do here

Thank you my friend, I give as much thought to the music as I do the story

Thank you!

Thanks Jim, a bit of trivia for you? Im sure you know the answer- What was the name of the first church in the section talking about the Primitive Baptist Church?

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller was it the Cades Cove Primitive Baptist church in Cades Cove...

@@tennesse_courier I knew you knew :)

fingers crossed!

I have a chestnut tree in my yard in the NC Smoky Mountains. We gather chestnuts from it every year and leave some for the bears.

Greetings from East Tennessee

Thank you my friend. The drone footage on the opening scene is Big South Fork Cumberland River near where Kentucky and Tennessee join, there is other footage from the Great Smoky Mountains, Hillsville, VA, Karns, TN, and several other areas in Appalachia

💪 strong bloodlines

My Irish ancestry came here in 1700s, but I don't know where they were, except Oklahoma. My Irish great-great-grandfather's name was John O'May.

@@rhondabuce8348 I joined a geneaology page called My Heritage and although it's kinda expensive, it has quite the database to be able to find your ancestors. Matter of fact they'll find them for you and suggest them as 'Smart Matches' for you to look at and confirm or deny. You can start there by adding your parents and their parents and they'll do the rest. They even have links to marriages and immigration from other Countries as well as photos on some of them. I have well over 5,000 in my tree thus far and I work on adding names and checking their smart matches several times a week. That's how I have been able to find out so much on my line. I also have ancestors that lived and died in Oklahoma, and I don't live that far from there now.

@@rhondabuce8348 thats an Irish name for sure, if I run across it in my research, ill let ya know

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you!!

Indeed my friend

Thank you 💜

Amazing

Thank you and welcome!

Everything sane for me, too! My adopted Mother wondered how and why I learned to love bluegrass and country music so much!

Very interesting

That's because it's a mix of accents over time. In the Appalachians we had many different cultures living there and how things like bluegrass music came about. It's very similar to old Irish music with mix of different instruments from other areas or countries.

Immigrants become locals. Early convicts and soldiers were Londoners and I guess teachers were too. Aussies have a variety of London accent. My great grandfather was a London soldier. His medical record shows VD, which I guess didn't help his family. Scots and Irish from the countryside hopefully had less city diseases. Interestingly, Hitler mentions VD being a big problem in his book ' Mein Kampf'. And no, I'm not a Nazi.

Cjod33. I am Australian too and have the same heritage I think that anyone whose ancestors have been here since the beginning have some aboriginal heritage even if it is hidden. I haven’t been able to find it in records but know my grandfather had a grandparent who was indigenous. My dna came back as almost 90 percent Irish although two of my children look aboriginal. But it was explained to me that our dna can Conley express so much. Going back 13 generations we have one million grandparents

@@patriciafisher1170 wow! 1 million?

of course they were, unless, you consider that the first Americans actually walked across a land bridge from Europe across Russia into Alaska and down into America and being renamed Native Americans.

I think you know what they mean.

@@dr.barrycohn5461 Yes and they traded it away for beads, trinkets, liquor, muskets, powder, iron tools and blades etc.. Then they got mad and tried to take it back by savagery. "Indian giver" We all know how the story goes. They were at war with each other for centuries before that.

@@dhy2kb393 True enough especially with regards to being at war with each other. The other stuff is lame.⁰

My great great grandparents were Cherokee

Well said

Amen

Yes indeed, my friend. Great memories for sure. Thanks for sharing

Well said my friend

They are Scots Irish almost no Irish DnA

Glad to meet you my friend

The Webb's were part of the Van der Bilt family?

glad to have you here

Great country

You related to Clarence Wilson.My grandfather was from Clay county.Roy Rogers last lived in Webster springs miss that trip in the holler.💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@@richardrogers156 good morning, I don’t remember Clarence Wilson. My grandfather’s name was Vernon Wilson. My dad was James Reed Jordan Wilson.

You'll never recognize the area now..its lil bad lots of drugs and unsolved disappearances .

@@timlaxtonsr3729 I know Tim. I grew up in Huntington, not the city now that I remember. But you know what? Prayer changes things.

Thanks my friend, more to come my friend

​@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I would like to add that the people clearing trees in the Ouachitas often planted turnips as the first crop. I suspect it was a winter crop.

its Gods Country

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I have to agree with you!

Thank you!

Thank you Stephanie ❤

Thanks for sharing your story, I enjoyed reading it

You realise Obama deported more illegals than almost any US president. I didn't like him but facts are facts. Yes the Ghetto Kartrashians permeated lots of places. Moonshiners were considered thugs too.

I grew up in the Eastern KY mountains, I visit usually a couple of times each year. Your comment is virtually a direct quote of mine when I describe the pure pollution which has been dumped upon the people, and culture of the Appalachian mountains by the hellish leftist media, and Hollyweird in its many forms. It's a sad outcome..

@@hauntedmoodylady well said

@@hauntedmoodylady The left is doing this same thing to my home here in rural Alberta, Canada. The Trudeau government is flooding every corner of our country with immigrants who don't even come close to sharing any of the same values and morals that made life safe and good here

Glad to have you here

Me too ❤️

Appreciate the encouragement Roger, thanks so much my friend!

Thank you my friend, The Appalachian Storyteller is on Spotify as well!

Amen

❤️

It seems that many of us whose family has been over here for centuries does have "royal" blood......and are related in some way!

I'm proud to know my grma,maternal,has irish,,.stacy,on grfathers side,and scottish,plowman on mother's side. And why I love true crime since a kid,. I'm a sr,plus,and grma had. Mags.. I'm rummaging in bureau ,found blk n white True detective mags in her bureau drawers..in 50s,.why I loved old detective movies, Scotland yard etc..True crime obsessed today. ...

The American Chestnut was killed from a fungus that was imported from Asia. The Chestnut trees in Asia had built immunity from the fungus, but the American trees had never encountered it before and had no defense. The fungus was imported to NY and within 10 years it spread all the way across Appalachia and killed every Chestnut Tree. Now, the root systems of these Chestnut trees still exists and are still alive since the fungus cant penetrate the acidic soil. So the roots continuously sprout new twigs and the fungus kills them again. However, in recent years, scientists have been cross breading the Asian and American Chestnuts DNA to try to build resistance to the fungus here in America. That said, even if the Chestnut reappeared today, it would take 1000 years for it to return to its former glory in Appalachia.

The chestnuts have died long ago... they'll still try to sprout off of old trunks, but once the saplings get to a certain size, their bark opens up, the blight enters, and kills it off before it's of a size to produce nuts. Now, the emerald ash borer is killing off the ash trees. Right now, driving around the region, many of the trees you see dead are ash.

@@lesliebright3860 exactly, you can see some dead ash in the opening scene in this video.

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller how very sad that is! 😫

@@amypaparone55 indeed, its a very sad reality

Well said

I have a chestnut tree in my yard in the NC Smoky Mountains.

I had heard they were doing something along those lines. I'll be buried deep in those hills by the time they'll see how it goes.

amazing!

Thanks for sharing your story my friend

Indeed my friend

Thank you ma’am 💜

Thanks for sharing Suzanne

I so enjoyed reading your thoughts, 100 💯 agreed

Awesome

Yup. Me too. Guinston PA Presbyterian church was founded by my clan McNary they too are buried there. 💖

well said, my friend

No, not really. Just a lot of misinformed people from outside the Appalachian region basing their opinions on slanted articles, books, film, etc... There are pockets in every community, rural or urban, who could and should do better for themselves and their family. I'll stick to what I know of this region by being a member of the area and from the history we know about our family and neighbors who've been here for a couple a hundred years or more. But, the typical Appalachian storyline is what readers and storytellers get attention for. BTW, my grandmother, born in the 1890s, lost her husband around 1936 when my mother was a baby during the depression. She became a college graduate, her children were college grads, all of her grandchildren are college grads, all of her great grandchildren, except one, are college grads. Almost the same on my paternal side. As far as wars, dad was WWII, and had (Xs)greats that were in Revolutionary, Civil War, Spanish- American, etc... My neighbors and friends can also tell you which relative was in which war. So, yes, they were well aware of the conflicts of the time and were there to do their part. The reporting and writings of the Hatfield/McCoy feud by T. Crawford for the "New York World" and for his book used the words "barbarism", "uneducated", "uncivilized", and so forth in describing these Americans in order to make his "work" more fascinating to a potential reader/buyer $$$$$$. As you can see, the labels have continued, especially for those who know nothing about Appalachia, except for, of course, what they've seen and read in print or film. And, we all know how accurate that is when it comes to the folks of Appalachia.

I started college with the attitude that I may be eaten alive by people from larger and more northern schools, but I looked forward to the challenge. I very quickly had to accept and deal with the knowledge that they were drowning in the shallow end and trying to drag me down with them. Unfortunately you have become mired in a puddle of propaganda.

yup! now folks carry buckeyes... since there are no more chestnuts