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Post by benotforgot on Oct 31, 2004 20:32:36 GMT -6
Mollie = Mary Annie Nettles nee West (1852-1939)
One of my cousins, Ruby Nettles (1910-2003), was born on the 1st day of April in the Cole Springs community near Tanglewood, Texas . . . in a house, the main room of which was of huge hewn logs. Her parents were Joseph Alfred Nettles (1889-1944) and Carrie Belle Yeager (1888-1969).
[/i] [/ul] Miss Ruby once stated that, The notes from that visit became a newspaper article entitled Memories of My Grandmother Nettles, which was published in the 19 April 1979 edition of The Giddings Times & News. Miss Ruby served as Assistant Editor for Volume I of A History of Lee County, Texas which was published in 1974. Later in the day during that long ago summer of 1932, Mollie told her granddaughter that -- In later years, Miss Ruby would regret that she and Mollie never did return to that conversation and pick up where they left off that day.[/size]
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Post by benotforgot on Feb 22, 2005 2:33:00 GMT -6
Mollie remembers . . . Monday, February 22, 1864 . . .
Mollie recalled about this time period in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi that ... Closer came the fighting until one day we could hear the cannon booming as a battle was fought over a bridge maybe twelve miles from our home. I remember what they called that bridge, though I don't know how you would spell it ... Sookietoncha, it sounded like.
It made cold chills run over you to hear that cannon. We had already had several wounded soldiers to take care of ... Aunt Mary and Mother were fine nurses ... but now they really poured into the house.
I remember that Col. [Jeffrey] FORREST had come by the day before and asked Aunt Mary for a horse to ride. She had told him to take his pick, only leave her old Tom to ride, since he was real gentle. But he insisted on using Tom, and in anger she told him, "I hope he does you no good, Sir!"
Late the next day, after the battle at the bridge, old Tom came home riderless with blood all over the saddle. Col. FORREST had been killed on him. Aunt Mary wept in remorse and never again rode old Tom. Col. [Jeffrey] FORREST and Gen. [Nathan Bedford] FORREST were brothers, and we saw them often.
As told to Ruby Vance nee Nettles by her grandmother, Mary Annie "Mollie" Nettles nee West, c. 1932
[/i] by Andrew Nelson Lytle [/ul][/size] [/quote] [/size]
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