Stories Set 1
Here you will find vignettes, anecdotes, short stories, family legends, romances, biographies, etc. Some articles below represent many years of research and a compilation of data found in numerous widespread sources. Some selections are stories of my ancestors and relatives as told me by various kinfolks. I will always be grateful for their taking time to share these stories with me. Other stories below were written by distant cousins scattered far and wide across this country. Rest a spell on a green grassy spot surrounded by misty blue mountains. Hear the trees whispering in a gentle, warm breeze and the soft rush of a sparkling river. Listen now, my friends, and you will hear a web of tales spun by our kinfolks.
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"Bonnie Lass by the Well" by Sandra Ratledge "The Corpse That Grew a Beard" by Shane Ratledge "Courting in a Tin Lizzie" by Sandra Ratledge "The Face in the Well" by Sandra Ratledge "Granddaddy's Search for Sassafras" by Sandra Ratledge "The John Cobb Welch Story" by Irene (Williams) Welch "The Jonathan McDonald Family" by Sandra Ratledge "Joyce Discovers the Dockerys of Dixie" by Morris Burkett "A Kerchief and a Corncob Pipe" by Sandra Ratledge "The Person I Most Admire" by Shane Ratledge "A Rich Heritage" by Harley Hampton "Wild Times in Martin's Creek" by J. Kurt Matheson "The William Marcus McDonald Story" by Sandra Ratledge "The William Marion McDonald Story" by Sandra Ratledge
Patchwork Pieces, Kinfolks in the Knobs, Part 2 (stories about my mother's family)
School Days, Golden Rule Days, Part 3 (stories and pictures of schools)
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Appalachian Pioneers (stories about my husband's ancestors and relatives)
~ TO BE CONTINUED ~ "Annie Blythe, Story of a Wildcrafter" by Sandra Ratledge "Betty" or "Betsy" Blye, Heroine of Judge Strange's Romance Story, "Yonaguska" "Jonathan Blythe's Amazing Life" by Sandra Ratledge "Grandpa George McKeehan's Christmas of 1858" by Sandra Ratledge, great-great-great-granddaughter "John B. Welch's Story" by Sandra Ratledge "Poke Salad Hunting" (with photos) by Sandra Ratledge "The Mark" by Sandra Ratledge "Susie Stares Down the Barrel of a Twenty-two" by Sandra Ratledge
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This site is dedicated to the memory of my parents,
Tommy and Beulah (Cline) Nipper.
