Appalachian History

She wrote 1500 hymns

Lelia Naylor Morris wrote about 1500 hymns in all, over a 37 year period. Her best known song can still be found in hymnals today.

The school bells rung, and the peoples’ wonderin’, well they hadn’t heard yet that the Armistice was signed.…and then they all celebrated.

I started working at tanning when I was 15 years old and I’m 63 now. It’s hot. Like putting your nose right on the grindstone all the time.

Settlers moving into Ohio’s Miami Valley & the Virginia Military Tract were generally poorer, unable to buy land directly from the government.

Well folks, sit right back and let me tell you a little tale about how Hoopie the farmer and the Rooster named Red went at it one day.

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