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Witness to old corner
This is so cool! Read, starting near the bottom of the page.
A calf made them remember!
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I’ve noticed the ctrl-+ option doesn’t work when you click on the photos. The webpage itself will zoom, just not the photos.
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I’ve always been amazed at what can be found written into the public records.
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Here is a better view of it.
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My name is F.G. Guilitt. My age is 40 years past. I have know of the corner to the Keller land and the Guilitt land ever since I can remember. As I recollect the corner there was a chestnut and a white oak, I think the trees stood about eight feet apart. I think this stake I set (at the Point B) is about where the corner of the Herod Survey (14579) and the Trimble survey (16199) stood. I think to the best of my knowledge the trees have been gone 15 or 16 years. I never heard any dispute abou this corner until within the last six or eight years. I saw David Boyd, a surveyor run to this corner between the years 1870 & 1872. he was surveying for James H. Trimble. The corner between my father and Mr. Deven stood down near the run (at A’). My father having a gate to the corner tree and the tree died and fell on a calf and killed it is the reason I remember it so well. The corner of the Deven land and the Keller land was not the same, and further deponent sayeth not.
Wesley Davis, Chainman
Hine Snider, Chainman
Grant Snider, flagmanLafayette Jones, County Surveyor
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I can relate to how the very unlikely occurrence of that calf being killed by a falling tree would stick in a person’s mind for decades. That is the type of information I retain but I can’t think of my neighbor’s name sometimes. You can hear the first few notes of a TV show theme song from 40 years ago and immediately sing the entire song but you stand in the middle of your kitchen and ask yourself, “Why did I come in here?”
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I wrote a book with not a so different situation. Some thought it to be over the top, which was the point, seemingly unbelievable, yet a one in a million/billion possibility. The point was to lead the reader to fantasy/supernatural. By the end of the book, I had you by your throat! Some liked it. But the takeaway was this, it got them trying to figure out the story long before it was revealed. That was my intent.
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I can relate to how the very unlikely occurrence of that calf being killed by a falling tree would stick in a person’s mind for decades. That is the type of information I retain but I can’t think of my neighbor’s name sometimes. You can hear the first few notes of a TV show theme song from 40 years ago and immediately sing the entire song but you stand in the middle of your kitchen and ask yourself, “Why did I come in here?”
To get a chuck of dead cow to chew on!
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Possibly.
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