Just stumbled on your site. Very nice, excellent quality. Thank you for sharing.
@Knife_Collector
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A history lesson at it's finest. Thank you.
@historystuff5516
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I truly wonder the same things. Sometimes lost in those thoughts. Thanks for supporting these videos.
@TheBioExplorer
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Thank you for sharing. My mother had me late in life as I wasn't born until 1964 but she was born in 1920 as the oldest of 8. My grandparents married not long after my grandfather returned from WWI. They moved to a tennant farm between Florence and Lake City. They worked that farm with just mule power and I would say manpower... but my grandmother, mother and siblings worked just as hard. Momma always said they didn't have much but they at least had food since they were on the farm. Mom said they had a milk cow and she was the only one that could milk it as it kicked everyone else. She did say she got in trouble once because she had to do all the cooking one week... probably one of the many times grandma was ill when pregnant or had a baby. Her daddy complimented how good her biscuits were and asked what had she done to make them so good. She had put some of the cream from their cow in them.... and oh boy did she get in trouble as the cream was of course reserved for butter making and now they would be short. They stayed there until after my uncle went to fight in WWII where he was killed not but a few weeks before the end of the war. As the oldest boy he had already had a hard life as my grandfather was a strict man and worked him hard. He even ran away once. He walked from their home all the way to Lamar in Darlington County where my maternal great grandparents lived. My great grandfather was a prominent Methodist minister that rode the circuit. He wrote to my grandfather and told him he would send him back but only if it was promised he wasn't beaten for running away. On the day my uncle was killed as they were getting ready to cross the Rhine my mother said grandma was on the porch shelling beans as the younger children played in the yard. She suddenly stood up and called my uncles name and then collapsed. They thought she had a heart attack and almost died. Some weeks later they got the notication he'd been killed. My grandmother begged but my grandfather refused to have him brought home for burial. Because he had been in WWI and had seen things... he told her that it probably wouldn't even be his body that was sent back and that he wouldn't risk my grandmother getting sick again. So he is buried in an American military cemetary in Belgium.
@user-pp9bl5gr1n
8 ай бұрын
Your grandfather was a real one, where did your family lived before moving upstate? I wonder how many families originally lived in Charleston before moving upstate
@TheBioExplorer
8 ай бұрын
@@user-pp9bl5gr1n He did live in Charleston with his father (a mechanic) and mother. After his mother died, his father remarried. The new wife didn't like having my grandfather around. At one point my grandfather ran away and the police brought him home. That is when my great grandfather sent him on the train to near the current Lake City area (then Lynches Creek Township) to live with an aunt. Not sure of the year but very early 1900s.
@bradmassey3849
Ай бұрын
My family sharecropped where west gate mall is right now./Grayson Massey
@LakeshiaMcGee
Жыл бұрын
South Carolina has the most history …I wonder why we get overlooked 🤷🏾
@user-pp9bl5gr1n
8 ай бұрын
Because we never was people who needed or wanted attention….I believe Charleston could be similar New Orleans but due to Charleston being so laid back
@user-pp9bl5gr1n
8 ай бұрын
Gotta love the South and no matter if you’re white or black you must be proud of what the old folks went through and survived They didn’t have a therapist, most times didn’t even have a doctor
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