Name: earl60 -- EARL AND HAZELS FAMILY

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. MARY ELSIE TEASTER: Birth: 23 FEB 1896 in MEADOW FORK MADISON CO. N. C. Death: 4 JUN 1977

  2. JAMES OLIVER TEASTER: Birth: 12 JUN 1900 in MEADOW FORK MADISON CO. N. C. Death: 1932

  3. MONROE TEASTER: Birth: 12 DEC 1902 in MEADOW FORK MADISON CO. N. C. Death: 8 JUL 1972

  4. LEE (BO) TEASTER: Birth: 3 JAN 1905 in MEADOW FORK MADISON CO. N. C. Death: FEB 1986

  5. BONNIE MAE TEASTER: Birth: 14 SEP 1907 in CLIFTON S. C.. Death: 1 APR 1998 in S. C.

  6. WILLIAM OTIS TEASTER: Birth: 20 SEP 1909 in MEADOWFORK MADISON CO. N. C.. Death: 3 SEP 1961 in PACOLET S. C.

  7. FRED (DOOG) TEASTER: Birth: 28 APR 1910 in S. C.. Death: 26 MAR 1991 in S. C.

  8. AGNES LORENA TEASTER: Birth: 14 NOV 1914. Death: 5 JUN 1998

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a. Note:   THE FOLLING INFORMATION IS FROM GERALD TEASTERHTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~TEASTER/RANSOM WAS BORN SEPT 10 1866 INWATAUGA CO. NOW NEAR PRESENT DAY BOONE N. C.RANSOM WAS ONE OF TEN CHILDREN BORN TO HARMON TEASRER AND SUSIE HICKS SOMETIMES SPELLED HIX. THEIR MARRIAGE WAS JUST ONE OF THE MANY MARRIAGES BETWEEN THE TEASTER AND HICKS FAMILES OVER SEVERAL GENERATIONS. IN THE REMOTE MOUNTAIN AREA POTENTIALMARRIAGE PARTNERS WERE SCARCE AND MARRIAGES BEWTWEEN COUSINS WAS COMMON. THE HICKS FAMILY HAD SETTLED THE WATAUGA AREA EVEN BEFORE THE TEASTERS . DAVID HICKS SUSIES ANCESTOR IS GENERALLY CREDITED WITH BEING THE FIRST WHITE SETTLER IN THE PRESENTWATAUGA CO. N. C. AREA HE IS DISCUSSED IN DETAIL IN THE SECTION OF THE STORY DEVOTED TO THE HICKS FAMILYRANSOM WAS NAMED AFTER HARMONS FATHER RANSOM (1) WHO FAD DIED DURING THE CIVIL WAR. RANSOM AS AN ADULT REMEMBERED HIS CHILD HOOD IN WATAUGA COUNTY. ONE OF HIS STORIES CONCERNED WHEN HE WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD. HIS FAMILY WAS LIVING ON OR NEARBEECH MOUNTAIN . HIS JOB WAS TO WATCH THE CORN FIELD AND KEEP THE BEARS SCARED AWAY FROM IT.WHENRANSOMWAS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD HIS FAMILY MOVED FROM THE WATAUGA AREA DOWN INTO MADISON CO. N. C. . HIS FAMILYS MOVE WAS PART OF LARGER FAMILY MIGRATION FROM WATAUGA TO MADISON COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO HARMON AND SUSIES FAMILY THE FAMILIES OFSAMUEL TEASTER (3) HARMONS BROTHER AND PATTERSON AND WILLIS HICKS ALSO MOVED ABOUT THE SAME TIME . MOVING WITH HARMON AND SUSIE WAS HARMONS MOTHER FANNY HICKS . SHE HAD BECOME A WIDOE WHEN HER HUSBAND RANSOM (1)DIED 8IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. IT ISNOT KNOWN WHY SO MANY FAMILY MEMBERS MOVED AT ONE TIME TO RELOCATETHE FAMILES MOVED TO THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF MADISON CO CLOSE TO THE BORDER WITH HAYWOOD CO. THEIR LITTLE SETTLEMENT WAS IN THE VICINITY OF MEADOW FORK CREEK. THIS IS CLOSE TO THE BALD MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN KNOWN AS MAX PATCH. EVEN TODAY THIS IS A ROUGHWILD COUNTRY AND HARD TOGET TO .THE STATE LINE BEWTWEEN NORTH CAROLINA AND TENN. RUNS RIGHT BESIDE MAX PATCH. THE ROUTE OF THE APPLACHAIN TRAILWAS PICKED SO THAT IT WOULD GO THROUGH THE MOST REMOTE AND SCENIC PARTS OF THE MOUNTAINS. IT RUNS UP ANDDIRECTLY OVER MAX PATCH.ONE OF RANSOMS STORIES WAS THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO FARM ON MAX PATCHANOTHER OF RANSOMS STORIES INVOLVE HARMON AND HIS LOGGING CAMP SHORTLY AFTER THE MOVE WHEN RANSOM WAS ABOUT 8 YEARS OLD HE WAS TAKING AMEAL TO HARMONS CAMP IN THE VICINITY OF LEMON GAP FROM THEIR HOUSE ON MAX PATCH . ON THE WAY TO THE CAMP RANSOMGOT LOST. BEFORE HE COULD FIND THE CAMP IT GOT DARK. THE SCARED AND COLD 8 TEAR OLD SPENT A LONELY NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAIN BEFORE HE WAS FOUND THE NEXT DAYTHE TRIP FROM WATAUGA TO MADISONBY TODAYS ROADS IT IS ONLY ABOUT A HUNDRED MILES FROM BOONE TO THAT AREA OF MADISON COUNTY AND WOULD TAKE ABOUT 2 OR 3 HOURS. IN 1870 BY HORSE BACK AND WAGONS IT TOOK ABOUT TEN DAYS. THAT WAS A LONG AND TIRING TRIP. THERE IS A WONDERFULDESCRIPTION OF THE TRIP FROM WATAUGA COUNTY DOWN TO MEADOW FORK TEASTER AND HICKS COMMUNITY IN THE BOOK (AN APPLACHAIN MEDLEY HOT SPRINGS AND THE GENTRY FAMILY)THIS BOOK ALSO GIVES AVIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE PEOPLE AND HOW THEY LIVED . IT DISCUSSESMANY FAMILY MEMBERS BY NAME SUCH AS RANSOM(2) AND HIS FATHER HARMON. THE BOOK IS WRITTEN ABOUT ONE OF OUR DISTANT COUSINS (JANE HICKS) WHO MARRIED JASPER NEWTON GENTRY. JANE WAS THE SECOND COUSIN OF RANSOM. HER FATHER WAS RANSOM HICKSANDWASPROBALLY NAMED AFTER HIS UNCLE RANSOM (1). SHE MOVED WITH HER FAMILY FROM WATAUGA AND GREW UP IN THE MEADOW FORKS COMMUNITY . JANE BECAME A RNNOWNED COLLECTOR AND SINGER OF MIUNTAIN FOLK SONGS AND STORIES.LAURA AND RANSOM THE EARLY YEARSAFTER THE MOVE FROM WATAUGA COUNTY RAMSOM GREW TO MANHOOD IN THE MEADOW FORK COMMUNITY . THIS COMMUNITY WAS ABOUT 20 MILES FROM THE SETTLEMENT ON FINES CREEK OVER IN HAYWOOD COUNTY . THE TRIP TO FINES CREEK TOOKABOUT ALL DAY ON FOOT OR HORSE BACK. GOING FROM MEADOW FORK TO FINES CREEK WAS NOT TO BAD IT WAS MOSTLY DOWN HILL . HOWEVER THE TRIP BACK AWS A DIFFERENT STORY . IT WAS A LONG UPHILL CLIMB OFTEN VERY STEEP IN PLACES . IT IS NOT CLEAR EXACTLY HOWRANSOM THE BOY FROM UP IN WATAUGA MET THE LOCAL FINES CREEK GIRL LAURA RUSSELL THERE WAS A SIZEABLE AGE DIFFERENCE BEWTWEEN THEM . RANSOM AWS 12 YEARS OLD WHEN LAURA WAS BORN IN 1878

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