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@desirreemarlenaclonch7593

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@desirreemarlenaclonch7593 Thank you my friend

@hetrodoxly1203

Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@hetrodoxly1203 thanks for sharing your thoughts

@marywegrzyn506

Жыл бұрын

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

Hello from an Ulster Scot (what you call Scotch/Irish) whose ancestors stayed in Northern Ireland and who stumbled on this video by accident. Just a little example of shared roots separated by centuries and thousands of miles. My wife's maiden name is an uncommon old Scots surname and when her brother did a genealogy search he found out there are only 2 areas on the planet where the surname is found in any numbers. Here in the northern part of County Down and in Eastern Tennessee but not in Scotland. Seems that the entire original family migrated to Ulster from Scotland in the early 1600s and then half of them made the further leap across the pond a century or so later.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@elioraimmanuel

Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@patriciameany1238

Жыл бұрын

What's the name?

@WhispersFromTheDark

Жыл бұрын

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?

@FlashyVic

Жыл бұрын

@@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.😁

I am so proud of our history. I’m from very southwestern WV. We “ hillbillies “ usually get a bad rap. We come from strong, smart and self resilient ancestors. We were so isolated for so long that we had to be strong and self sufficient. Independent! Especially after the civil war, no schools for generations. Still we stand proud, we made it. Love this and thank you!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed- the people of Appalachia are a strong proud people

@Nimrodbodeinejr

Жыл бұрын

I’m from Logan county myself

@okgroomer1966

Жыл бұрын

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.

@joshbradley6841

Жыл бұрын

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

@woodsboy444

Жыл бұрын

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.

"Good men, who were patient, calm, and reserved... Were also men who were courageous, prompt, and thorough." That's such a good line, man!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that!

@TheChadPad

Жыл бұрын

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

@Nannada1212

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@TheChadPad

Жыл бұрын

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

@Nannada1212

Жыл бұрын

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

My great grandma was scot Irish from Tennessee and came to Texas after the Civil War on a covered wagon. Her married name was Steele and the women were strong and proud. I have her cast iron boiling pot and I proudly can hunt, fish, and can fruits. I’m damn proud to continue the strong tradition.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Well said

@jacquelynjohnson9486

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you have the pot from grandma

@delagum1

Жыл бұрын

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

@Zesmbei2

Жыл бұрын

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

@mawi1172

Жыл бұрын

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

My grandmother, my Dad's mom had 16. She was born in 1893 here in southern WV. She married at 14 and had her first at 15. In 1908. She had 14 straight boys! Then finally a daughter in 1930. Then my Dad, the last, in 1933. She had one set of twins. 15 pregnancies over a 25 year span. That's over 11 years of her life pregnant! They farmed and made liquor for a living. Some of the boys stole a few of her chickens to boil over a campfire while they drank one night. She offered them a choice of jail or a beating at her hands! She was in her 50s by then. They all opted for a beating, even though some of them were crying! (grown men!) She died at 78 when I was 13. What a woman! They literally don't make people, not just women, like this anymore. And that's why our country is collapsing. A generation of "IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!" self entitled wimps!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@SJ-ni6iy

Жыл бұрын

I’m from southern West Virginia.❤️

@bradlane3662

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SJ-ni6iy

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@bradlane3662

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

I am sitting in my Scottish home watching this and had no idea of this history. Thank you, that was so good.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@frasermurray850

Жыл бұрын

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

@dennistrull1475

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@Opal Allen ❤

@kenihow

Жыл бұрын

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.

My grandpa told me how devastating it was when all the chestnut trees died. He said there was such bountiful food for people and animals that came from the trees. He said they were as thick as the hickory trees in the Appalachian hills. The ground would be covered in chestnuts like you can find hickory nuts and acorns now. He said that was one of the biggest losses in his entire life. It changed life forever in the mountains.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that beautiful testimony of your grandfather

@cac2821

6 ай бұрын

How did the trees die?

@terrylyons3577

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@terrylyons3577

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@cac2821

6 ай бұрын

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

I watch another channel called celebrating Appalachia,It’s Tipper Pressley and she’s doing the same,she is educating the world about the culture of Appalachia and her family is participating in this journey with her!Amazing people doing amazing work! I want to Ty also!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

10 ай бұрын

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

I have a high respect for the folks of Appalachian. I enjoy hearing their stories.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@renaestevenson1361

Жыл бұрын

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

@kenihow

Жыл бұрын

People believe anything they hear on the internet

@SeemsFutileNow

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@donnaaddington193

Жыл бұрын

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

I am proud to be a descendant of these strong, God fearing Scott-Irish people! Thank you Lord for the blessing!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

strong bloodlines my friend

@Big88Country

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller AMEN Brother!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@Big88Country amen

@spaghetti_legs

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Ulster Northern Ireland Carrickfergus

@ruthbeamish8849

Жыл бұрын

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

I'm proud to b a Tennessee hillbilly, i was raised on the Word of God, hard work and fresh grown food ,i was strong as an ox and cunning as a fox. Im a country boy through and through and damn proud of it

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

7 ай бұрын

well said my friend

German settlers from PA who migrated by way of the Shenandoah Valley into VA were also integral to the culture. I'm of strong German-Irish descent from SW VA. It's a unique culture and sadly, a dying one. I'm so glad to have been part of it. Those people were amazing.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

💜

@reneegiven910

Жыл бұрын

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.

@kilo21swp

Жыл бұрын

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

@mrs.darcyscottage1752

Жыл бұрын

I'm Irish-German too. I agree ❤

@EpochUnlocked

6 ай бұрын

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.

I’m 30 years old and it’s crazy to me how little changed by the time I was a kid. Most of these traditions, teachings, and preaching we’re still that way so I was probably 15 years old. We didn’t get pavement down my holler till I was a teenager. It breaks my heart to see how much things have changed so fast for my community. That being said I don’t agree with preachers drinking.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, it’s slipping away from us

@soisaidtogod4248

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@soisaidtogod4248 💯

@southernsweetgirl100

Жыл бұрын

Amen

@sheilacape4794

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, the devil's water!

TAS, You talking about the woman having a baby while picking berries. My great mammaw was out in the fields helping great pappaw plow the fields when she went into labor. She went back to the cabin, delivered the baby on her own, cleaned it, fed it, wrapped it in blankets and set it on the front porch and went right back into the field. She would listen for the baby to cry then tend to it. One tough woman. That baby was born in 1909 and he passed in 1966. Great mammaw buried one son and two husbands. When asked why she never remarried she would always say in her Kentucky draw " Well they just kept dyin on me and after 2 did not see a reason to go for number 3."

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

That’s a heck of a story!

@incognitonegress3453

Жыл бұрын

Mind ovr matter 💪🏽 🙏🏽

@samuelschick8813

Жыл бұрын

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

I am from Brazil ✝️🇧🇷✌️ I found this very fascinating, in a way it is kind of like the Amazon with the honest and isolated lives the people of Appalachia live

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

That’s cool, i never thought about that

@kenihow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@VivaCristoRei9

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@TEM14411

Ай бұрын

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

@agneslong2323

Күн бұрын

@@VivaCristoRei9 As in some urban areas.

I am happy to be of Scotch-Irish stock. Thank you for this beautiful video.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Of course my friend

I felt like crying when you spoke of the chestnut tree's destruction.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@eunicestone838

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

I love this video. I am Scottish on daddy's side and Presbyterian. On moma's side Cherokee and Southern Baptist and SDA. Since my dog Spooner died 3 months ago today I have been smitten with intense grief. Spoon was the best friend I ever had! Well, your videos are helping me to find myself again. Thank you!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Traci

@ponyboy2323

Жыл бұрын

ur dog died dude

@riffle8883

Жыл бұрын

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

@sandym8787

Жыл бұрын

@@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 of Scots decent on both my mum an dad's side of family tree! So I'm ever so grateful to have found this! Thank you so much for sharing!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

2 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

My father's people were some of the first settlers to Pike Co KY, and his mothers side were also early settlers there. I always enjoy videos and stories of Appalachia people, it makes me feel closer to my origins.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing my friend

@darcylett486

Жыл бұрын

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

@robertbevins5961

Жыл бұрын

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.

I love this channel. The story of the chestnut tree, which is one I've heard before, is one of the saddest stories around. If people don't learn from history's mistakes, our planet will one day soon not be fit for an old country boy like myself. Keep up the awesome story, sir.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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.

@davids6533

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@slidenapps

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” My Grandma from Kentucky used to say this all the time..

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏

@meemaw100

Жыл бұрын

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

My ancestors jumped off the ship in 1768 and settled in western Nc . We’ve been here and fought for this country with a passion and by god we still will.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Good people

@zeleboba2619

Жыл бұрын

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

@soisaidtogod4248

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@soisaidtogod4248 💜

@audiemccall5332

Жыл бұрын

@@zeleboba2619 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.

My family settled in French indian territory in what is now eastern kentucky three brothers moved across cumberland gap. Visted the area, once the locals learned who I was it was like the boys never left. Heard stories from my great grand dad of his childhood. Hard times hard men.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, hard times - hard men

I would love to hear the narrator tell more stories. He has a great voice.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

9 ай бұрын

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

I'm so proud to be from Appalachia! This was a beautiful story of our history... My uncle in S.E. Kentucky had a big farm and every summer he would have a "tent revival" where folks would travel and camp for a week in the campground he set up with nice outhouses and running water...we even set up a concession stand with Pepsi and some candy bars and chips....He even had electricity run for lights. Preachers would come from other places to preach a night or two and then someone else would come in to preach...not Baptist, they were from the Christian Church..... this was in the early '60s... great memories! Would you have any stories about these revivals? Thanks JD, for keeping our great heritage alive 🤗❤️

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@KathysTube

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I look forward to it! Thanks 🤗

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@KathysTube yes ma'am, stay tuned

@blumobean

Жыл бұрын

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

@KathysTube

Жыл бұрын

@@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 🤗❤️

Hello from australia people up in mountains back then had it hard. I love listening to the history stories. Moonshine.. way to go.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

3 ай бұрын

Glad to have you here my friend

I'm here because my ancestor was one of the first Apalachans, moving west of the "Fall Line" to Allen's Creek Va. in the 1720's. Our Clan of Meeks' and Hoppers would eventually spread across the country, to Georgia, Tennessee, and Tipah Mississippi, with our branch finally landing in Texas in the 1850's.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Wow!

Proud of my Appalachian American roots! I see a picture of one of my ancestors in this video that I didn't know was public. I have that same & similar pics in old family albums, and have seen copies of it in museums/displays in Tennessee Appalachia.

My dad's family are from Western NC. I assumed for years we were Scotch-Irish. My grandmother was even one of the last Scots-Gaelic speakers in NC. But...as I did more family research, I found many Swiss, German, and Austrian ancestors that settled in Western NC and intermarried with my family, some Quakers --- dating back to before the Revolutionary War. As well as a branch of the family that migrated from the Charles City/Williamsburg VA, the Harrison family! What a mixture!!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

What a rich family history, thanks for sharing my friend

@harolddenton6031

Жыл бұрын

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.

@smartacus88

8 ай бұрын

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

The American Chestnut is making a comeback either native trees are growing resistant to the fungus or the trees I've seen are hybrids but finally they are showing up in the cherokee and Nantahala forests hopefully they'll get the chance to grow to their full potential

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

9 ай бұрын

fingers crossed!

@beereal2514

7 ай бұрын

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.

An Eastern Tennessee/Western Carolina mountain girl here. I've been enjoying your videos, love the storytelling & pics! I know one thing for certain, these old mountains become a part of your soul. I had to move away to the Midwest for a few years when my mom remarried, but everytime I came back home I just felt whole again, down to my bones. As soon as I was old enough to be on my own, I headed back down to be cradled by these mountains. I can never stray for too long.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Well said my friend. I feel the same

My ENTIRE family on maternal side is from here W NC, TN, GA. 1700’s traced back to. Oh the stories! My Mama is 92 I’m savoring them one by one I recorded some. I’m still young (long story I was a surprise) and hope stories these last more generations…my Grandpa helped build Chimney Rock, NC. Crazy!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed reading your story

I live in the west NC mountains and have roots in this heritage. Enjoyed the video. One quibble-there was a pictured titled “polecat”. It looked like a ferret. Here, a polecat is a skunk.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Yup, good catch

@jasonc3522

Жыл бұрын

I got a kick out of that as well.

@larryspoonamore7812

Жыл бұрын

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

@itsabrandnewday1072

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Charliedanielsband77

Жыл бұрын

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

From Fort Loudon, East Tennessee first families of Tennessee thanks you, and I ,Mr Cassidy, thank you for your time

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir!

If kids today had to live like this, then they would have respect, and appreciate what they have today

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

9 ай бұрын

well said my friend

My family, the Blaylocks, followed the cotton down through Mississippi and then across to Arkansas as share croppers. I now live in the Ozark Mountain region. Even after all of the generations, the education, and modernization, our attitudes remain unchanged. Amazing.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

👍

We have been in that area since mid late 1700's

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

strong bloodlines my friend

@Redstagwsmnp

Жыл бұрын

The Robinettes and Bollins

Fabulous! Just stumbled upon this channel. One teeny bone to pick, Scottish men knew all about fighting, no Native taught that. The Scot’s melted up into the Highlands or vanished to islands yet could reappear at Will and were fearsome alone or in force.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

5 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing and welcome to the channel!

@agneslong2323

Күн бұрын

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

The University of North Carolina has done a lot to see that one day the Chestnut tree returns to the mountains. They have tried hybrid trees with a resistance to the blight. Over to the west, a few chestnut groves have been found which due to their protected locations, never got the blight and the most promising discovery is that the chestnut blight kill the trunk not the roots and a tree that once was thought dead is still alive sending up shoots that survive until they reach about 5 feet then the shoot dies. Im hoping that one day that problem will be solved. But it won't show in my lifetime. I'm too old.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

10 ай бұрын

Well said

@beereal2514

7 ай бұрын

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

@theldawood84

7 ай бұрын

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.

Being a proud Australian of Irish/Scottish n Aboriginal blood, I've always found it interesting how our accents now are nothing like those who first settled places like the Appalachian's n parts of Australia.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@ericbogar9665

Жыл бұрын

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.

@redtobertshateshandles

Жыл бұрын

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.

@patriciafisher1170

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@patriciafisher1170 wow! 1 million?

My parents have a Beautiful chestnut tree in hilly Southern Ohio, it's always filled with chestnuts, but it's not like the huge ones described here, love the hill country and my mountains!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@eunicestone838

Жыл бұрын

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

@charliedaniel718

Жыл бұрын

Ohio is trash yank state

Greetings from the UK! I love your channel and your voice is so warm and resonant for these wonderful stories - thank you.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you friend!

Awesome video thanks for sharing love herring about the Appalachian

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks brother

@cadeevans4623

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure buddy

My grandfather told me stories of chestnut trees so tall he had to lay flat on his back to see the top of them and my cousin has had the same still for over 50 years now making some fine shine. Love your videos and stories J.D. Stay safe my friend 🙏

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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.

I enjoyed this video very much.I have lived in west Virginia all my life and have and still do know people much like what Ive seen in this video..Times have changed..but a way of life is taught and still remains in some families and places.we can still learn from them and be better off for it ..Thanks for the video.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed- thanks for watching and sharing

@timlaxtonsr3729

Жыл бұрын

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..

Amazing ‼️ loved chestnuts as a child growing up in my home england don't get them in south Africa! Miss them. Thank you love Julie south Africa 😁🙏💙

Twice I have been to Cade’s Cove and the Cling-man’s Dome , it is truly God’s county , I really appreciate the great Smoky Mountains!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

💯

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful video, I love this channel ❤ much love and respect to you all from Ireland 🇮🇪 🌻 ❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend, greetings from East Tennessee

That's crazy huge the way those Chestnut trees get so huge. When I see the pictures of giant redwoods it is amazing as well. It's sad to here the story of how they were infected and so many died off.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed my friend

I am Catholic Irish from the South Coast of Ireland. Mise Éire. This is fascinating. A home from home! Is breah liom é

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

10 ай бұрын

glad to have you here

Love love these stories. I was born in Kentucky

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Gods country

My Mom and Dad were raised in central West Virginia, Clay County. Such a rich heritage.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Great country

@richardrogers156

Жыл бұрын

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

@dont.wilson2121

Жыл бұрын

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

@timlaxtonsr3729

Жыл бұрын

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

@dont.wilson2121

Жыл бұрын

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

I'm so blessed to be a part of this. I enjoyed this so much that there was no place like home. Absolutely love this.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

7 ай бұрын

thank you!

People around the World that live in such environment’s in isolation from the rest of the World develop their own cultural lifestyle’s.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

💯

So many memories of picking up chestnuts as a young child in Eastern Kentucky

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Wow, what years was that?

@duwaynewireman2425

Жыл бұрын

We still do here

Love your stories of Appalachia. Keep up the wonderful history lessons.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend :)

i have just discovered this channel and it is already one of my favorites. I have lived in NC my whole life and love this state!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend! Welcome home 💜

Good morning from North Texas! My ancestors came from Wales to North Carolina, In 1700 then some moved into Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and then into Texas. So some of the pioneers we're my people, I'm proud to say. Crane/Crain, Young were some of their names.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

💪 strong bloodlines

@rhondabuce8348

Жыл бұрын

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.

@WhispersFromTheDark

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@rhondabuce8348

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you!!

I hope people understand if the Appalachian could keep food on the table, they like their lives, they love the mountains and i love them.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed my friend

My family came to East Tennessee before it was Tennesse. Hardy folks there for sure. However there were lots of people living there for thousands years before every seeing a white person.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, you are completely right 💯

My kin folk are Italian that settled in Fayette County West Virginia. They were masons in Italy and continued their trade there. I love the stories of how they settled and brought their traditions here

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing Suzanne

Proud to have Appalachian roots. My mom was born and raised in W. Virginia.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Amen

I was blown away by my ancestry. Mostly Scottish on my dad's side. I have royal ancestry from Scotland, and England. But I heard that 60 % of Americans today do. Very interesting!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

❤️

@annscott9268

11 ай бұрын

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

@sandyfields678

9 ай бұрын

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. ...

You do beautiful work. You have left out the Indians and later the Melungeon's that came in 50 years before James. The mountains curve around and form the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. Some kids would see visitors and run, then peak out around the corner of the house. The girls would run and hide under the bed.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend, more to come my friend

@arailway8809

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

I too am scotch Irish from isle of sky to smoky mountains in1730 and very proud of my heritage

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Glad to meet you my friend

@dennistrull1475

Жыл бұрын

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

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the "First" Appalachians were Native Americans.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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.

@dr.barrycohn5461

Жыл бұрын

I think you know what they mean.

@dhy2kb393

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@dr.barrycohn5461

Жыл бұрын

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

@gaylegreene

Жыл бұрын

My great great grandparents were Cherokee

Your drone footage is so beautifully done! Love the pics of Devil Anse Hatfield and clan.Thank you for your words of "wisdom' retold!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

The chestnut could grow quickly that was mighty important You are right just another gift from God!!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

4 ай бұрын

amen

Born and raised in Philadelphia PA - growing up I was aware that my father’s side of the family were from Kentucky but I had know idea they were Poor Appalachian Hillbillies from the hollers around Williamsburg KY. His father, grandfather, uncle’s were Coal Miners, his mother was raised in a Coal Camp (Bon Jellico), her father ran the steam plant & sawmill. I find these Appalachian stories very interesting.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your connection my friend

I wonder if it was accidental, our chestnut trees here in Pennsylvania have died in abundance this year. You can actually see them dead in the middle of forests where all other trees are growing strong. Anyway it’s amazing how strong these people were to start a new in a strange country. Keep these wonderful stories coming please!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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.

@lesliebright3860

Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

@amypaparone55

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller how very sad that is! 😫

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@amypaparone55 indeed, its a very sad reality

My folks are german american immigrants who somewhere married into the Cherokee Tribe then they moved up to Michigan during The Hillbilly Highway

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

2 ай бұрын

awesome!

I love my mountaints. I come from the Northeaster PA coal region of the mountains and while our heritage is different, we also have so much more in common with other parts. We are proud Appalachians as well!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

3 ай бұрын

Amen

Beautiful stories -beautiful people . Thank you !!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

In the Western NC mountains here and I have a new favorite channel to binge!! Not only are the stories great, you are wonderful at telling them and the production quality is chef's kiss!! 🤌

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! Thank you 💜

I lived in North East Tennessee for about 10 years in the 2000's. Church was an important staple. I remember visiting a lot of churches outside of the one I'd usually go to. My , then, wife's uncle was a preacher, until recently, at a Baptist Church around there. He even had a Gospel group called the Primitive Quartet. Things were very nice around those parts, and everyone heavy in tradition and the culture there. But with the intrusion, or should I say, near invasion, of the unruly, wild and indecent things made their way through. Such as hollywood, radical and hood dispositions crept in. That, tainted the kids, who, before that, upheld in traditional values, family and God. It all changed. On top of that, all the illegal immigrants sent their by obama, the later and recently, by the biden 'minstruation. Everything is being ghetto-ized. Young people are taken by and romanticize about all things ghetto and thug life. It ruins towns and lives. Just saying, and I said it. God Bless, and have a nice day.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story, I enjoyed reading it

@AlmazB

Жыл бұрын

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.

@hauntedmoodylady

Жыл бұрын

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..

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

@@hauntedmoodylady well said

@realcanadiangirl64

Жыл бұрын

@@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

I do believe this is the real America, such an amazing history and people

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

So glad to be able to watch such informative information on the Appalachian history. Thanks again my friend.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words and support!

I just found this Chanel and I simply love it. Where anyone believe it or not in the Caribbean, there's an Island called Puerto Rico is a territory of the USA. The deal is that has I look and I listen to this stories it reminds me of my grandfather who lives in the country in the mountain ⛰ of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. They call us Hillbillies, but we got to live the best life for decades. It was my Great Grandfather who came from Spain 🇪🇸 had 4 wife's and was a wealthy landowner. My grandfather was his son, and my dad was his grandsons. The similarities are unbelievable the same. They work at the sugar plantations but my great grandfather had land has far has your eyes can see. The have the coconut,tobacco, coffee, 🥭 Mango and the herds of animals of all kinds. They have their own distilleries and drink moonshine out of the sugar cane squeeze and fermentation. I mean looking at this is giving me a blast from the past. Thank you for having such an amazing Chanel and the great information you put out for us to enjoy. And yes Family has always been first.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing I enjoyed reading your story

@phredro1731

Жыл бұрын

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.

As an Irish/Scottish child from PEI and Nova Scotia, and now an American, I fount this fascinating! Thank you for this excellent presentation!!!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

BLESS YOU, TIM!!

another descendent of these tough old people. my direct paternal line landed in Philadelphia around 1720 and spread west and south along the Appalachian mountains from there. My 3Xgreat grandfather married twice and fathered 24 children that all lived to adulthood. there is a mess of us spread throught the country now.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

👍

love your stories, never stop you have a gift.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you ma’am 💜

Love this!! My family came over in the 1750's--mostly Scottish. First Presbyterian Church on Bee Tree St., Swannanoa, NC. I have ancestors buried there, at the Piney Grove Cemetery. It's a historic site now, but I have kin going back to the 1750's buried there, and I have my Grandma, Great-Granny, Grandpa, Uncle and my Dad buried there.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@cathleenweston3541

7 ай бұрын

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

This is how I'm going to be living real soon I do enjoy watching these movies all the time

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 God bless

@martyfox9099

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thanks I appreciate you taking the time to read my comment and reply to me

Enjoy your documentaries. Thank you for sharing.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir

Another awesome story! Thank You

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend, I appreciate your support 😊

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.

@robertsmith5970

Жыл бұрын

That is very interesting. My family are all English Scots and Welsh and I live in the UK.My parents both took the ancestry DNA test and were surprised at the large number of American matches,,many now in this region.I have noticed English ancestry seems more forgotten than Irish or Scots or Italian,yet is so prevalent in Americans.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@hetrodoxly1203

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsmith5970 There's a couple of reasons for this, 1 the English never added anything to 'American' ie Afro American, Irish American, just called themselves American, 2 Scots/ Irish a bad term used to describe people who went to the Appalachians via Northern Ireland, they were a mixture of English and Lowland Scots (Anglo Saxons) who's family ties were on both sides of the border, most Americans will tell you Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the USA was Scots/Irish, he went to America via northern Ireland but his family came from Eccleston, Lancashire, England, the culture is a very English one, clogging started in the mill towns of northern England, one of the best Chroniclers of Appalachian culture was Bascom Lunsford his family not only went from England they helped Charles 11 escape.

@mustelidpeter

Жыл бұрын

Not only were the English settlers in the majority it was estimated that 83% of the surnames of the settlers were of English origin in 1790, very few Scots or Irish ones. And yet so many commenters express pride in their Scots Irishness ad nauseum. I've also noticed many surnames, much more numerous in the north of England, are wrongly quoted as being Scottish. One of the most ludicrous I can remember is "Which part of Ireland does the Dawson clan come from." This is a northern English name along with Jackson, Simpson, Watson, Wilson, Dixon, Walker, etc. although of course they are also found north of the border.

@hetrodoxly1203

Жыл бұрын

@@mustelidpeter Good points.

These are some of my Ancestors. I’m from Southeastern Kentucky in the deep Appalachian Mountains. I come from Irish/Scottish decent. Very interesting to learn more of my culture. I’m a proud Hilllbilly!!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

3 ай бұрын

as you should be!

I grew up in these mountains this would make an awesome movies.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

indeed my friend, it would

Brilliant presentation. My first love musically was "Old Time" eventually, Bluegrass, a style of music born in the Appalachian mountains. There is an unaffected directness in your presentation that reflects the simple nobility these early settlers and this storied place. Well done!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

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

My roots run deep in Appalachia. This one made me want to get in the car and drive 5 hours

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

8 ай бұрын

its Gods Country

@paulacribb56

8 ай бұрын

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I have to agree with you!

My family name is Freeman. My family came from Ireland during the start of the civil war. And fought for the south in the Appalachians. Thank you for this podcast that shows my family history.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

8 ай бұрын

Glad to have you here

So interesting as I have recently researched my genealogy and found that I am more Irish than Scottish. My family surname of my great-grandfather was McRandles and is a surname that was common from what I understand in Northern Ireland. At some point it was changed to just Randles. Grew up in Knoxville and moved back to this area after retiring. I hike in the Smokies frequently, both TN and NC side. One of my favorite things is walking through the many small cemeteries in the Smokies and seeing the family names of that area. Glad to have found your videos as I have been away for over 20 years and find this all fascinating.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Amazing

Hello. I’m new to this channel. Born and raised in Southern California, submitted my DNA and learned my paternal ancestors are heavily rooted in Eastern Kentucky. Learning as much as I can about a culture foreign to me. Look forward to watching your videos.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome!

@DD-wx3ho

Жыл бұрын

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

Stunning video and still photos. Thank you.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

2:10 is where I’m at I’ll finish watching tomorrow good night everyone and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

🙏

My family descends from the Crawford clan of Scotland....we have always been Freedom Fighters.....William Wallace was raised by my ancestor Hugh Crawford after his parents were murdered by the British.....but we immigrated in through the Appalachian mountains....

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

Жыл бұрын

strong blood lines

@julieloper291

Жыл бұрын

yes sir. I'm named for one of my Crawford relatives. her name was Julia Matilda Crawford...my Aunt Theokle named me Julie Lynn....

@patriciameany1238

Жыл бұрын

They where murdered by the English Scotland was a independent country then

@ricgunn1439

Жыл бұрын

😀more likely murdered by the Norman's. Which he was also descended from👽

Thank you for the video I love ones like this thank you so much and may God bless you

@TheAppalachianStoryteller

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Thank you my friend