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Any older folks ever really get on here that are from Coal City and remember??

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Ole Timer

mwills, I was talking about your Great Grandpa and grandma Keffer. Grandparents and great grandparent
of most of the Keffers here in Coal City.

Ole Timer

enjoying this

Shady Spring, WV

Ole Timer wrote:

FayeMae, I just lost a long story about mrs Stover which took me an hour to type and I just don't have the heart to try again right now. Maybe later.
Ole Timer

I just wanted to try and help you out a little. Seems like you keep loosing your posts before they get posted. After you type your story highlight the story then right click your mouse and go to the copy option and then left click on the copy option. Then it is saved and if your comment don't get posted all you have to do is right click again and choose the paste option and your story is then pasted. You might already know that you can do this I'm not sure I just was trying to be helpful!! I know what its like to type all kinds of stuff and then it gets lost. You might have even already tried this. But I love reading all these posts and just want to keep seeing them!!

Ole Timer

Enjoying This--Thank you so much for your help. As you can see, I am not computer smart. ;-)

Ole Timer

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE OLD TENT REVIVALS HELD IN COAL CITY? A BIG TENT WOULD BE SET UP IN A FIELD AND THEY SURELY WOULD GET HOT IN THE SUMMER. THERE WOULD BE FOLD UP CHAIRS SET UP AND THEY WOULD GET HARD BEFORE THE SERMON WAS OVER. MOM WOULD DRAG ME TO ALL OF THEM. DAD WASN'T IN CHURCH AT THAT TIME. WE WALKED THERE AND BACK HOME. GOOD TIMES.

FayeMae

AOL

Ole Timer wrote:

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE OLD TENT REVIVALS HELD IN COAL CITY? A BIG TENT WOULD BE SET UP IN A FIELD AND THEY SURELY WOULD GET HOT IN THE SUMMER. THERE WOULD BE FOLD UP CHAIRS SET UP AND THEY WOULD GET HARD BEFORE THE SERMON WAS OVER. MOM WOULD DRAG ME TO ALL OF THEM. DAD WASN'T IN CHURCH AT THAT TIME. WE WALKED THERE AND BACK HOME. GOOD TIMES.

Yes, Old Timer I also remember those tent meetings going with Mom and walked a long way to get there, no car back then. Wasn't it dirt floors also and real dusty, I was real small but can remember some things of it and sure do remember how hot it was sometimes. And wasn't Oral Roberts one of the preachers that held one of the revivals there? Healing people??

Ole Timer

FAYE MAE--I THINK ORAL ROBERTS WAS THERE ONE TIME.

Friend

Thank you for the storys about Porter and Mae Keffer.They were my grandma and grandpa You are so right when you say they were the best. Also my Aunts and Uncles
I miss them all so much,and think of them all.

whitbychick

Hey Old Fart!LOL! My brother told me you were on here & I'd just like to say how awesome this post is! I've been "browsing" some of the other topics & obviously there are so many people out there with waaaaaaay too much time on their hands! Thank you so much for sharing your memories on here! Yeah....I was from Whitby....yeah...I'd admit it.....but Coal City was like our "Metropolis" & even though there are a couple years difference in our ages, so many of these things come to my mind when you mention them! I've enjoyed reading all this so much, and again, just wanted to say Thanks!

Old Fart

WhitbyChick..Thank you so much and I do agree this post is one of a kind..Everybody is so nice and share some memories that hit Home to all of us..And Chick I am sure you have some to add I mean Coal City,Whitby,Princewick,Abney,E pperly,FarleyHill,Jonben,Firec o were really kinda the same if you look back far enough were all kin in some way and stories are about people and places everybody knew or at least heard of..Everybody ended up goin to school togather somewhere either at Stoco up here or Lego down the mountain..So WhitbyChick please add anything you want and I am sure it will touch someone..Thanks for stoppin by and PLEASE dont be a Stranger...Fart

Faye Mae

AOL

Friend wrote:

Thank you for the storys about Porter and Mae Keffer.They were my grandma and grandpa You are so right when you say they were the best. Also my Aunts and Uncles
I miss them all so much,and think of them all.

OK friend give me a clue so I can figure out who you are. And we both agree on Mae and Porter Keffer being the best.

Faye Mae

AOL

Old Timer don't know what your story was that you lost about Mrs Stover but here is one of mine. Me and a friend were walking home from the post office and black berries were ripe, we were picking them and of coarse the biggest ripest ones were across her fence which was down the road from her house and across the othe side of the road anyway of coarse the biggest ones were over the fence and I climbed on it to get them and she came and dragged me down by the seat of the pants and said don't think I don't know who you are. You are Porter Keffer's daughter and I am going to tell him on you. We were so observed in the berries we didn't see her coming, I was about 11 or 12 years old at the time.I had never been that scared in my life.

Old Fart

Faye Mae..Talk about scared..One time when I was 7yrs old there was a pistol in the house..I knew how to shoot a gun and had actually went hunting before..but with adults.KeyWords with Adults..well anyways I slipped the pistol in my pants and went over the hill huntin..Dont know what I was gonna get maby a Buffalo or sumthin but I did go.didnt even shoot the pistol but when I got home Mom was waitin and I took a good ole Whoopin..Thats WHOOPIN..but to add to that and what scared me so much was when Mr.Lilly from Whitby came to the Store..the MrLilly Peace Officer Mr. Lilly he was wearin his Pistol on his hip..Mom told him what I had done..so he called me to the Back of the Store and told me not very nicely that for what i had done he would more than likely have to take me to Jail..and that was just because it was me who did it..he said if he didnt like my Mom and family he would more than likely have to shoot me on the spot then he slapped his holster..as is hand hit the holster the tears hit my eyes..he said Ok dont cry and I might let you go THIS Time..But if you ever do such a STUPID thing again he would Hunt me down like a dawg!!
Needless to say I never..NEVER did such a STUPID thing again..MrLilly another great guy gone but Never forgotten..
Taught me a very valuable Lesson..Fart

Friend

Hi to all ,FayMay are you out of coal city now ? If you are you know who I am.

Ole Timers woman

Thank you Fart. He was my dad. He has been gone a long time now as well as my mom. We came to Whitby in 1941. I was 7 years old. Daddy bought 88 acres from Lacy Meadows for one thousand dollars up Whitby/Bowyer hollow. He paid one hundred dollars per year, for 10 years, and sometimes it was almost impossible to come up with that amount. He worked for Lacy Meadows in the timbers for 25 cents an hour, 10 hours a day. Talk about poverty! Mommie had a garden so we survived. When he went to work in the Whitby Mines, things were better. But that was the way things were back then. I lived there until I was 19 years old. I couldn't keep Ole' Timer out of the Hollow, so I took pity on him and married him.:-)

Old Fart

Well ya see sometimes it happens..Lucky Ole Timer I am sure and you have lived a good life yourself I am sure..Hurrah for the 2 of you..
Well your dad was such a grand guy who I respected so much..not to mention he scared some sence in me at such an early age..good Lesson learned..Here is sumthin he also told me that I have told both of my sons the first time I took them Hunting..A bullet dosent have a brain its gonna go where you point it..Wishin,Beggin or even Prayin wont change its flight!!!..Your Dad told me that..I never forgot it and have used that comment myself..And he was so Rite..Good Luck to the Two of you Old Timers..lol..Fart

OLE TIMER

IT IS HARD TO RE-WRITE A STORY ONCE YOU HAVE LOST IT. YOU FORGET SOME AND LEAVE OUT SOME. I KNEW MRS. STOVER WELL. I HAVE EATEN AT HER TABLE SEVERAL TIMES. EACH TIME WAS MILK AND CORN BREAD WHICH I DEARLY LOVE. I HELPED HER GRANDSON, PAUL THOMPSON, DO FARM WORK HOR HER AND HIS DAD, JOE THOMPSON. I LOVED WHEN HE LET ME PLOW AND DRIVE THE HORSES. WE HAULED HAY AND CORN SHOCKS FROM A FIELD ACROSS THE ROAD FROM PETE HARVEY'S. IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE NOW THAT THE FIELD FROM THERE ALL THE WAY TO MRS. STOVER'S WAS PLOWED AND SEEDED EVERY YEAR. SHE OWNED LOTS OF LAND. AFTER DINNER, WE WOULD GO TO THE BARN AND DIG UP RATS. ONE HALLOWEEN ME AND SOME BOYS DID A MEAN THING TO MRS.STOVER. WE TORE UP A HUNDRED OR SO FEET OF HER RAIL FENCE TO BLOCK THE ROAD. NOT MANY CARS IN THOSE DAYS BUT THE FIRST ONE TO COME BY WAS MY BROTHER BRINGING HIS WIFE AND NEW BABY HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL. EVERYONE RUN BUT ME SO I HAD TO HELP MY BROTHER UNBLOCK THE ROAD. JUST AS WE FINISHED, I SAW MRS. STOVER COMING UP THE ROAD WAVING A BUTCHER KNIFE. MY BROTHER DROVE OFF AND I TOOK OFF. I NOTICED LATER THAT I HAD LOST MY 17 JEWEL HAMILTON WATCH. I SNEAKED BACK THE NEXT MORNING BUT COULD NOT FIND IT. I SUPPOSE SHE FOUND IT WHICH SERVED ME RIGHT. I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THE MULE. SEVEN OF US BOYS RODE THE MULE FROM PAUL,S HOUSE TO MRS.STOVER'S. WE HAD LOTS OF GOOD TIMES THERE.

swills

Creston, WV

Faye Mae wrote:

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OK friend give me a clue so I can figure out who you are. And we both agree on Mae and Porter Keffer being the best.

i didnt no grandpa but grandma was the best. She raised alot of kids and them some...

james

i love reading this topic, my grandpa was from coal city, i just moved back a couple of years ago, but I remember his stories about the hardware store and the club.

FayeMae

AOL

Friend wrote:

Hi to all ,FayMay are you out of coal city now ? If you are you know who I am.

Yes, friend I am out of the Coal City area and so are a lot of relatives so not a very good clue, I would like another one.

no problem

I think I know who you are fart,.,.,this is a great thing you have going on here.,.,.,maybe some of the others will follow suit.,.,I remember old man Bill.,.,he was like a papaw to me.,.,I remember when dad would stop in to see him all the time.,.,sometimes we would have to stay in the car.,.,he always had something to tell us about.,.,made us laugh and always had a story for us .,., I think you may have came from the same mold.,.,Old man Bill.,.,he was a fine man...
also I loved the rabbit story.,.,sure do miss Jerry to.,.,man life is to fast.,.,I keep telling my boys to enjoy it and slow it down all they can.,.,before they know it they will be missing people and the way things used to be.,.,this thread is taking over.,.,and for the other threads.,.,we all have had or at least been kin to a problem.,.,its life.,.,we all have the same God

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