Quick question--you mentioned 'quits'. Did you mean quoits (pronounced 'quates')?

I used to watch that movie when I was younger

Yall tell a lot of the same stories as "Appalachian storyteller"

I wish I could have met devil anse and spent some time with him.

I heard about these 3 on an episode of "Gunsmoke"

Cult stories are so weird. I can't help but visualize how the scene must have looked 😬

The name Devil is more often used than I thought Why would a parent name the child Devil

Richard, Thomas and Lincoln were my great grandmother's brothers. My mom knew Link and said he made his wife's and his own caskets. She said his was lined in yellow and hers was lined in black. He would also get in his to demonstrate that it fit. Have heard a lot of stories about Link!

The Greene's are my family.

That's a depressing one! But, thank you.

I think they should change the name back!

I live in LoFollette Tennessee and I’m creeped now

People definitely lived longer in places like that. Much healthier than the sheeple being pumped full of hormones & petroleum-based medications of today.

Burkharts are a branch of the Hunfriding dynasty , bouchardings, The first Burkhart and his brother , Adalbert ,had theirheads removed for not acquiescing to the Vatican in 911 ad. In 711 ad a monk from Wessex traveled to Germany with other monks and chopped down the Donner Oak in their zeal to spread the new Christianity. He is St. Burcardus

Papaw was considered a witch dr and according to our family tree he did live that long 125 new teeth im not sure

I do have pictures of grandfather

This is actually my greatest grandfather

I'm a Gatlin myself an this first time I have ever heard this story. I was waiting for the civil war started an end to see if this story was even close to what I've been told .

This leaves out a lot of details. Like the man that was shot by the corupt police. And how they beat people that didn't pay there fees. It was a lot worse than depicted here

Is that customary for miners to write their SS# on their belts? That really got me....

Wrong is wrong and right is right. Can't get away from that reality! Deal with it.

My great-grandfather was there in 1935. He had a background in the steel industry, so I am almost sure he was there to get the steel mill ready. I know he left in 1936 because my grandmother was born in NC. Later he worked on at least one dam for the TVA.

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To live in an actual tree. That must have been something. Thank you so much for sharing.

Thank you!

My great grandmother and my grandmother, along with three of their sisters lived to one hundred plus. Both my grandfathers lived over 90 years, my mom and two sisters, one brother all lived to mid nineties.

I was sure it had something to do with the gattling gun.

Judge barns in Georgia was killed in the courthouse 20years ago!

Most people in East Tennessee were free ranging animals. People had fences around homes and fields to keep animals out. Mr. Greene should have fixed his own dang fence.

How could an elected official be so blatantly corrupt? I mean, they all are to a degree... but this Cantrell guy seemed to flaunt it.

One night me and my brother and I saw that thing. It was on top of our barn. Big red eyes! It's true, and it happened in my home state of West, Virginia.

He had right. The three extra bricks was in çase they broke a couple 😂😂. That's exactly what Alvin Goins told them. So he was smarter than them. 😂😂😂😅. You got love him❤😂

Alvin was my great uncle it's all true about his mathematical skills. My sisters and i took care of him and our grandmother which she was Alvin's sister until their passing. I and another family member was with Alvin at rhea county hospital when he passed away.

John Wright wronged ,put right those wrongs.

You two guys are just the best story tellers on youtube ❤

I am a descendent of the Greene side. My GREAT Great Grandfather Reverend William Trent Greene. Alfred, Richard and Robert is Reverend William Greene's sons. Another son George Green is my great grandfather. My grand mother is Mary Pearl Greene Jarnigan. She told me stories about the Greene and Jones war. We had a neighbor he was a Jones she disliked that man. Hamp Greene married Susan Greene. She is Richard Greene's daughter is also Reverend Greene's father.

You asked about the fight in "A Boy Named Sue". I believe that before Gatlinburg became a tourist town it had a reputation as a wild place with much "carousing". Perhaps because of the many moonshiners in Sevier County.

Democrats... Securing ballot boxes... Be vigilant in 2024 that we do not have a repeat of 2020 and batches of ballots showing up.

That's actually a bit of a misconception that people then didn't live as long as they do now. I personally think it is a lie that is sold by the medical comunity. I have my family tree back to 1604. There are eleven just in my genealogy that live to be over a hundred years old, and I know several other people who show the same thing in their's. Growing up in the Smoky Mountains, there probably wasn't a family there that didn't have at least one relative over a hundred. My grandfather was a hundred and one when he died of a heart attack while squirrel hunting. One of his daughters was 103 when she died. I knew both of them, so this wasn't just stories that were passed down. The oldest two in my line were two of my great great great Grandad's brothers. According to an old family bible, one of them was 108 and the other one was 112. In my family tree, anybody that didn't live to be atleast eighty probably died from an accident or some kind of disease.

Child abuse

Alvin Goins was my Great Grandmothers brother, her name was Lizzie Hambrick mother of WWII decorated soldier Clifford Hambrick. Alvin lived with his sister Gracie Patten in a house they rented from my Grandfather Howard Sims. I lived next door to them and spent a lot of time with them as I grew up. For years Alvin would come see my mother to read letters he had received from the Governor of Tennessee and many congressmen and senators. My mother would write out the letters for Alvin to answer them back. He had to large pushcarts he had built himself and push those up the mountain and bring down coal and firewood. He love to go watch professional wrestling and would hitchhike to Chattanooga to watch it and I would see him sitting in the audience on Harry Thornton wresting on WDEF channel 12. Everything Alvin carried was extra large like a pocket watch that was probably 4” wide and a huge pocket knife. I was with him one day when a lady stopped by from Chicago to ask him a mathematical question she had figured on several pages of paper. He answered it in about 5 seconds. He was a legend no doubt. Sweet man I will never forget.

this is about my family Wife tracked my family tree

My 5th great grandfather was John “Fisher” Loy who had a foundry in Loyston and founded the town.

I'm from roan mountain tennessee. There was a little community called fish springs that got flooded the same time Butler got flooded.

Wow what an interesting story. Thank you so much for sharing.

When you said grundy was you referring to Grundy County because that's where I live and I would be very interested in knowing what you were talking about?

Very interesting. Keep up your good work. I wish kids (of all ages) knew more about our history and heritage. I would like to get the book about the longhunters you referred to. Can you post some information. By the way, I have been to the Shaker Village. It is north of Nashville. You can google it. You will love their history. Thank you.

Never heard of this one😮 I'm from LeeCounty Virginia. This was before me...I didn't come along till the 50's.

i read once that Micajah Harpe was captured and moses took out harpe large knife and started cuting the back of big harpes neck to which big harpe said : your a rough butcher sir but keep cutting.

He could have taken her in and taken care of her as a child and not a wife. He was a pedophile because he chose her as a partner. The period in which it was set makes no difference as to how he "feels" about her. If he is attracted to a child a thousand years ago or in 2024, he is a pedophile. So stop trying to justify pedophilia.