old Carter family plantation?
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old Carter family plantation?
I am looking for anyone who might know anything about some of the items listed in a letter from my grandfather (Theodore Bruce Kiper) to my grandmother (Loretta Maxine Litchfield) back in June, 1937:
"...got to Gilbert at 11:00 after having stopped at Monroe for a few minutes..."
"Just after dinner we struck out for the Piney Hills. I have always wanted to go back to the old Cutter Place which is (or was) my great-great-great-grandad's on my grandmother's side. It is only a partly open field which trees have grown upon since it was abandoned...some of the trees are over a foot in diameter; some are right where the homestead stood. There is no sign of the house left except rocks where the chimney used to stand.
The way we got there was to drive to miles off the road to an old negro's home and continue a foot from there, the negro was out guide, we walked for five miles deep back in to the hills. On the way we stopped by to look over the sight of the old academy and school. All of these places were built long before the war except the school which was built during the war to keep the Yankees from finding the women and home folks. There are a number of these old places hidden away in the hills but nothing to show mostly but decayed homemade bricks and broken pottery.
We got back to the negro's place at 7:00 after walking steady for 5 hours.
This morning we went out to the old Lewe's Planation. The house is still standing and only a negro family living there now. It is an extra large three story house, all home made. The lumber was all hand cut and split by slaves. Below the house inthe foundation which is made of handmade bricks is where they kept the mean and runaway slaves. The hooks and rings are still in the walls."
My grandfather's grandmother was Sarah "Sallie" Amanda Carter, d/o Elias Carter. I figure by the number of "great's" in my grandfater listed, the house he refers to possibly belonged to the father of Elias Carter, Sr who was married to Lucy Duke.
Thank you
"...got to Gilbert at 11:00 after having stopped at Monroe for a few minutes..."
"Just after dinner we struck out for the Piney Hills. I have always wanted to go back to the old Cutter Place which is (or was) my great-great-great-grandad's on my grandmother's side. It is only a partly open field which trees have grown upon since it was abandoned...some of the trees are over a foot in diameter; some are right where the homestead stood. There is no sign of the house left except rocks where the chimney used to stand.
The way we got there was to drive to miles off the road to an old negro's home and continue a foot from there, the negro was out guide, we walked for five miles deep back in to the hills. On the way we stopped by to look over the sight of the old academy and school. All of these places were built long before the war except the school which was built during the war to keep the Yankees from finding the women and home folks. There are a number of these old places hidden away in the hills but nothing to show mostly but decayed homemade bricks and broken pottery.
We got back to the negro's place at 7:00 after walking steady for 5 hours.
This morning we went out to the old Lewe's Planation. The house is still standing and only a negro family living there now. It is an extra large three story house, all home made. The lumber was all hand cut and split by slaves. Below the house inthe foundation which is made of handmade bricks is where they kept the mean and runaway slaves. The hooks and rings are still in the walls."
My grandfather's grandmother was Sarah "Sallie" Amanda Carter, d/o Elias Carter. I figure by the number of "great's" in my grandfater listed, the house he refers to possibly belonged to the father of Elias Carter, Sr who was married to Lucy Duke.
Thank you