We were down the road from the race track.This was parked nearby with a For Sale sign...the price had faded away, however. It sure looks nice.
The words I am typing don't always go with the picture. Use your imagination--the race track!
The words I am typing don't always go with the picture. Use your imagination--the race track!.
Here is the Cochran Cemetery, my purpose for going to Athens and Englewood, TN. I found the info on a website (findagrave.com), typed in the GPS coordinates, and actually found what I wanted!
Here I am sitting between the gravestones of my great grandparents Dixon. I normally would not look so happy in a cemetery, but I felt a connection here, and was excited to have found them.
This is the museum in Englewood where I talked to several ladies who had grown up here. They had all heard of the John Belle Dixon house, maybe not even realizing that it was John AND Belle Dixon who lived there at one time. I told them my grandmother had a boyfriend named Floyd Cochran, and they called his niece to talk to me on the phone! They gave me directions to the Dixon house when I got done looking around.
This is the house! The ladies at the museum weren't sure who lived there. It was enough for me to take a picture.
When we got back to the trailer Tuesday, it began to rain and rained all night. And once again, Cary got us ready to go in the rain. Just down the road a little ways in Chattanooga, it was dry. The newspaper said it was the driest October ever--none for the month at all.
Believe it or not, this is the Welcome Center in Alabama!
Cary was starting to feel the long drive, and we still had to get to Mississippi. This is also at the Alabama Welcome Center. Mississippi's was even fancier, but a tour bus had just "landed" so I couldn't get any pictures.
Here is the Cochran Cemetery, my purpose for going to Athens and Englewood, TN. I found the info on a website (findagrave.com), typed in the GPS coordinates, and actually found what I wanted!For some reason this came out sideways! It is the grave of my grandmother's half sister, Elsie. Elsie and her sister, Jessie, were born to John Dixon's first wife. Her name was Tennessee Boone! She died, so he remarried. Elsie's husband was Jack Ferguson.
Here I am sitting between the gravestones of my great grandparents Dixon. I normally would not look so happy in a cemetery, but I felt a connection here, and was excited to have found them.
This is the museum in Englewood where I talked to several ladies who had grown up here. They had all heard of the John Belle Dixon house, maybe not even realizing that it was John AND Belle Dixon who lived there at one time. I told them my grandmother had a boyfriend named Floyd Cochran, and they called his niece to talk to me on the phone! They gave me directions to the Dixon house when I got done looking around.I had to take some pictures, of course. Gran may have even been in this building before it was a museum.
This is the house! The ladies at the museum weren't sure who lived there. It was enough for me to take a picture.
When we got back to the trailer Tuesday, it began to rain and rained all night. And once again, Cary got us ready to go in the rain. Just down the road a little ways in Chattanooga, it was dry. The newspaper said it was the driest October ever--none for the month at all.
Believe it or not, this is the Welcome Center in Alabama!
Cary was starting to feel the long drive, and we still had to get to Mississippi. This is also at the Alabama Welcome Center. Mississippi's was even fancier, but a tour bus had just "landed" so I couldn't get any pictures.We are in a very nice little park in Meridian, MS, tonight, glad to be done with the driving. We are now on Central Daylight Time too.
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