You dont see that every day. LOL LOL..enjoyed the article, One way to prove that someone is from the mountains is if they know someone named Lonzo! If you do so, you wont be called a bigot or a phobe of any type. Just so ya know Boyd County is further east than Harlin!!!! My dad was one of them, outside Tommy Lees barbershop. Stumbled across your post. I was born and raised in Harlan County-Cumberland. jack brock ha d 21 dogs and 21 kids, he got kill by a drunk man he was taking home that was about like the earth quake in los ang years ago it was bad , for those who know my grandpa honey bill saylor and my dad and my friend big al ,arnold lee saylor he was a damn good man i miss alot cause he is in all my boys alot i see him every day yours trunly ronnie gene saylor of molus ky aka molus hollow. Harlan County, Kentucky: UMWA on a 13-month strike at Brookside mines and on the pick line at Highsplint mine. Sweet. Guide to Harlan County, Kentucky ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. Eastern Ky is not privvy to divorce is it?? There she met my father and I was born in 1952. I have resided in Knoxville, TN for 26 years but Eastern Kentucky will always be home because that is where my extended family and my husbands extended family continue to reside. Then it was quiet except when the trains ran, which seemed like every 15 minutes or so. In fairness, many went to both joints. I think they graduated in the same class at Cawood. I need to work Watts Creek in to a future post, for sure. The rest of us (that includes me) hate the image of Harlan Countians as violent, uneducated hooligans. A convenient store replaced the gas station and stores. Of course you have to wash it all down with whole milk from Chappells Dairy! I must say it is a great read. Our reputation precedes us. Foster Funeral . Why turn here, I ask? Im from Loyall. Im pretty sure I remember Lance. Thanks for reminding me of a great memory of my mother! Age 82. I was rather disappointed to read all about my competition Garys Lounge. I was born in my grandmothers house, in those days hospitals were few and far between. Of course, it doesnt. I respect ALL coal miners. John, enjoyed your comments. Grew up in Sunny Acres, now across from the mall. My grandfather was the engineer that laid out most of the old County roads, was one of the 10 founders of the Harlan Country Club, and my dad owned the Tway Tipple for yearsyes, coal will always run in my veins! It was an old theater whose best days had long past. Its still pretty much the same. My dads cousin J.R. Williams owned a shoe shop (cobble shop) in Cumberland. Welfare checks. Oh, and that knife fight deal down there: I saw a big one at Hall once, in the yard in front of the school crazy watching the teachers try to break that one up. Im not from Kentucky saw this blog post through a friends facebook but Ive really enjoyed reading it and the comments! My great aunt Alafair lived there till she died and her beauty shop was still there, run by one of daughters the last time I was there. We had a wonderful daughter and divorced when she was nine. We meet in Williamsburg, but I love going back to the Creek. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . We only periodically had a movie theater, the fabulous Margie Grand in Harlan. Were also the last of a breedand this applies to all of Appalachia. By the way, I think grilled cheese sandwiches made from government cheese were the best! Lots of good folks from across the mountain.. Murdered while on a picket line in Harlan County KY, After his death an agreement was signed between the miners and the union! Pingback: Hometown Loyall-ty | Coal Troll's Blog. Other than the commentary there are some other good features, such as a 20 minute long documentary about the documentary, called The Making of Harlan County, USA. Kevin Keating as Director of Photography. I graduated Harlan HS, UK, then moved to NYC, culture shock! U can take me out of Ky. but u cant take Ky out of me!!!!!! I got cussed up and down over it! I just know that by writing all this misinformation as if it were this day in time, you have disgraced and embarrassed your people, an you should be ashamed of yourself. My younger brother and I were born and raised in Dayton. For many years now, Harlan has had a multi-screen cinema. Doris, do I know you? Sudie Crusenberry talks about her father's work as a miner and his suffering from black lung. Both our families are made up of longtime coal miners and school teachers. Im sure they knew each other. Loved your blog and thought it to be an accurate description. Crow Drums 70 (CHS). I wouldnt trade my life for anyone else. Charles Leonard Birmingham, AL. But you also are basically running down the place you were born. Bloody Harlan is just badass. I appreciate your comments but must, of course, defend myself. November 20, 1931 - January 8, 2023 Harlan Price passed away peacefully at the age of 91 years with his wife Harriet at his side. Many who knew of the hair would be shocked to know he wears it pretty much buzzed these days. My sister in law was born over in Leatherwood. basil collins harlan county obituary Phone: (828) 649-9163. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Russell Swanson, 58 of Cawood, passed away on February 7, 2023 at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. Kathy believed in the Pentecostal Faith and loved the Lord. When attempting to explain to someone where I grew up it was easiest to say somewhere between Harlan and Hazard. I actually grew up on Beech Fork in Leslie County. My friends still tell me you can take the girl out of Eastern Kentucky, but you cant take the Eastern Kentucky out of the girl. Your ignorant, evidently you dont much about Catlettsburg in the early 1900s . Abe was in my class @Black Star when it was an elem. My husband is a retired coal miner. THIS is just funny. I am VERY new to the blogging world. Spent a lot of time at the top of the hill up Watts Creek. My little brother had a knife pulled on him at Cawood. Jenny, I worked in Harlan Co. in the 90s on the railroad and worked with a Saylor but cant remember his first name. They dont want to sound like Harlan or look like Harlan. Bianchi Funeral Homes, Inc. Evarts ~ Harlan ~ Loyall ~ Tri City. HARLAN COLLINS OBITUARY. Box 102, Oswego, New York 13126. . SO neat to see my family talked about on here! Thanks again for the trip back to the Harlan of my youth! I visit very often, as my father still lives there. My Dad was born in Evarts andexpect for military service and collegenever lived anywhere else. But my Harlan upbringing gave me my core values. Getting Started | Contributor Zone Contribute to This Page Edit page Clear your history JACHS did not open until the 66 67 school year. Help me out with what category to look at to fi the hitchhiking story. I was born and raised in Leslie County. I loved it AFTER the mob left that came to my door the day I moved in, demanding to know Who are you and what are you doing here? I am so grateful to the educators in Harlan who worked so diligently to open our minds, expand our thinking and develop our talents especially in music. If you live in Harlan, I cant say that I blame you. I used to try and derail the presumptions, now I just embrace them. Jeanette McKendrick Leonard was my Me-maw and the best lady you to have ever been born! Its a kind of mountain street cred. | Coal Troll's Blog, My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. Did you live here? | Coal Troll's Blog, https://thetrivialtroll.com/2012/03/10/adventures-in-hitchhiking/, ALL ABOARD THE NERVE GAS TRAIN! My dad and papa were both coal miners for blue diamond mining for years. Ronald Peters. We were driving down the road from Pineville toward Harlan and I was looking for the turn off to get to sister Normas place. Took the jury about 5 minutes to find against us, lol. Just found your blog while attempting to refresh my memory about the name of the theater, the Margie Grand, in Harlan. Who We Are. I loved growing up there and go back frequently. The obvious beingwe are just like you and every one else. 1944 - 2023 ONEONTA - Ronald G. Peters, 78, passed away Feb. 1, 2023, at his home. No worries. Our Story; Our Locations; Our Calendar; Contact Us; Directions; Send Flowers; Call: Evarts 606-837-2119 Harlan 606-573-3030 Loyall 606-573-2132 Tri City 606-848-5455; We werent eligible for cheese, either, but my Dad would get it anyway! I REMEMBER govt. Rip Torn as Thanks. I dont need tattoos, i have scars. I still tell people I am from Harlan because it brings instant recognition. I have been gone for 40 years I still have my Harlan Co accent and the kids have lost their Eastern Ky accent. Sometimes, these people would show up to help us. I grew up in Sunshine, graduated from Harlan High School in 1972 and after going to Southeast and U.K., headed to California. Maybe its the camo/orange. If we had a problem like that today in my slice of Suburbia, there would be a full-blown panic. My great grandpa ran a mill there. Andas for the grid: Morehead is east of Middlesboro. Loved Justified. There are gun thugs in Harlan County, U.S.A., in particular a mean, squinty-eyed, jackal named Basil Collins, his pistol sticking out of his Dickies like a goofy cap gun. I didnt like a lot of your article, some of it is accurate. . Nothing like the beauty of a snow covered mountain, springtime with sprinkles of dogwoods and redbud blossoms or the beautiful fall foliage! It will now be in Bell County Circuit Court starting Thursday after a change of venue. What Mountains besides the one on the border with Virginia, Black Mt.(?)? Howard and Lucille Leonard are my grandparents. Born and raised as you said in Lynch You pretty much hit the nail on the head.. great write-up. I love your article! NOTE TO SELF: Dont move to Ages,Ky,Home of Brookside Mine, during a strike. My great granny and grandpa lived in Harlan when they first married but moved to Leslie county. I knew no one married to his own sister and just a handful married to their cousins. Im from Tennessee (save your boos for later, lol) and grew up in a very small, rural town with a lot of off the grid inhabitants. Contents 1 County Information 1.1 Description 1.2 County Courthouse 1.3 Harlan County, Kentucky Record Dates 1.4 Record Loss 1.5 Boundary Changes 1.6 Populated Places 1.7 History Timeline I knew some fine people from Smith. I rarely saw Janice after I left the hospital, It's hard to take Basil seriously until he's shooting. We know trash when we see it, and Im not talking about garbage pick up. I was born in Harlan County, Louellen specifically, but moved away when I was little due to my dad being in the Navy. She talks about growing up in the Brookside mining camp. I live in Northern KY now but all my family still resides in Harlan so I visit a lot. Ive been gone for 20+ years now. Youve made me think about Harlan all day today and its been a good day. Like much of Eastern Kentucky, the population has declined for decades. Police said in February 2013, Shell murdered Ronnie King, a former Evarts mayor, and set his house on fire . Their isnt anyone who acts the way you have described them in this concoction, Nor is the area the way you have presented it. It is true that you can take the boy out of the mountains but never the mountain out of the boy. My people have been there for over 200 years, since before it was Harlan. I have lived in Evarts since age 7 this is my home (sals Branch) I had your mom in home Ec. FR. Sherry Jones Hall. People may had been living on Government cheese when you grew up and the first may had been like a amusement park, but all that has changed. Im from a family of 12, but no inbreds here, but I do know cousins who married. . Weve been in the Lexington area since then, but we still say back home when we are talking about Neon and Jenkins. One of the women told her story about him telling her about the gun he had on the seat next to him, under a rag and that if she brought that stick down on his car, he would use it. Lynch had a skating rink when I was a teenager. The name of the area now came to be because the truckers that hauled from the mill just refrerred to it as Holmes Mill! So please you out landing, loathing spectator, Keep your thoughts on the area you live in now, and the goings on there, we dont need or want you perspective of the people that actually live, work and die here. We didnt have that problem when I lived there. Great article!! Bledsoe, so we limped, if you know what I mean Born in Leslie Co. and graduated James A Cawood in 81. Harlan is not what it used to be and I would never want to live there again, but your blog awakened the beautiful memory of what it was. Harlanthats what we call itisnt a destination, either. Youd be surprised how many of us moved here from other places (quite a few from other countries), were welcomed as friends, made our homes here and raised our families here. Sometimes you hear gun fire in the distance, but thats in the woods. I was just in Harlan County this weekend. 1976 Harlan County U.S.A. (Documentary) Self - Mine Foreman (as Basil Collins) Edit Personal Details Alternate Names: Basil Collins Edit Did You Know? We mourn with the family of Basil Collins for this great loss. John I cant believe you didnt even mention the no nothin about. What do you suppose that would translate into? I go back to Ky at least once a year. I left to go to school at EKU, meet my wife there, she is from Ohio. So if you have a iota of respect for you mom and dad, grandma and grandpa you will correct this mess and actually write something that isnt from fifty years ago. Still consider Harlan County as home. My momma cooked on a coal fired cookstove. Daughter of a preacher. We outlanders like our Harlan roots. Glover Allan (Al) Amherst, NS. It is good to hear from you and I hope to hear from you again. I am an outlander. The Chappells Dairy Slogan: It may be good and not be ours, but it cant be ours and not be good. Myself, Im from Loyall which is three miles from the town of Harlan. She agreed. She was 30 (now 76) years old. The road to lexington did get better tho. She was a member of Laymon Holiness Church. My mother drove through Brookside to go to work every day, so I also know the strike was real. I too are from Harlan I left in Jan. 1975. McCreary just has that Eastern Kentucky feel to it. Janice and I were both switchboard operators and admissions clerk. It tends to work to my advantage. . Im sorry but I dont think so. | Coal Troll's Blog, I stumbled across your blog and enjoyed much. Thats pretty cool. Our Location. Before Justified, many people got their image of Harlan from the award-winning documentary Harlan County USAwhich followed the Eastover coal mine strike at Brookside, Kentucky. Been back very few times. I am now in Knoxville tn, happy as a proud old grandpa can be, and thankful the good Lord saw fit to bring me through times i cant tell about. NEAR CLOSPLINT KY AND I AM PROUD TO BE FROM HARLAN CO THAT IS HOME ALTHOUGH I LIVE IN CORBIN KY NOW. They pity Harlan. Both my Grandfathers worked in the mines their younger years and I still have a 1st cousin working the mines. Hes married married to one of my first cousins for many years. Love your response, I live in central ky for a lot of years now, but when I can go home I stay at the Comfort Inn Hotel, it is a Blessing to us out of towners, I think this page is right on, and I dont like the way most people think of Harlan, we are just like anyone else, even if we have a little accent, awesome page, and I lived in Loyall a few years also, my mother died there, thanks for letting people know that its not all justified, although I have never watched a full episode, they are awful. I have more memories of the younger Brittons that are closer to my age. I grew up in Browning Acres, just down the street from both the hospital and Cawood High School. Everywhere I go here in Ohio I run into people from Harlan or people who have relatives from there and some still living there. I grew up in the town of Harlan, at the bottom of Ivy Hill. Harlan County, Kentucky: UMWA on a 13-month strike at Brookside mines and on the pick line at Highsplint mine. Im sure youd know if you were related. I left first to attend Cumberland College, then only a two year school, and later was forced to leave and gravitate north for employment. My Dad taught English there for a long time (Mr. Creech). Miss the trains. He was a sort of silent partner of mine from 1974. They deal with a drug problem that I cant imagine. Barbara Kopple as Director. Nothing came easy for Dad but he never complained. Finally I hang on long enough to get a real person. No as in stop, do not, negative, etc and nothin slang for nothing not anything; no single thing; having no prospect of progress; of no value; not at all. Advertisement. One person wrote that people visiting here didnt have hotels or anywhere to stay unless they stayed with family. Phone: (828) 649-9163. Cheese is the only thing the US government ever perfected. U and I are related. We mispronounce light, fight, white and night. Our teeth arent all that bad, although mine arent great. There is no Holiday Inn Express in Harlan. We got segregation in those years, and I never knew the difference, we all got along. Paddling. Blue Ridge Funeral & Cremation Service 7626 Highway 213 Mars Hill, NC 28754 Phone: (828) 680-0287 Fax: (828) 680-9965 Email: My older brother and sister were both born at Lynch Hospital. The children of Harlan are blessed to have such a nice school. She is survived by her sons, Nicholas George Ingemi Matthews and Eugene Christopher Hanc. John. Vacation at Hilton Head, Tybee Island, Myrtle Beach, Hawaii, have an American Spirit Coachman that sleeps ten and a pontoon. [citation needed] She only worked sporadically after that, in guest roles on Fantasy Island (1984), Murder She Wrote (1985), Hardcastle and McCormick (1985), and Blacke's Magic (1986). The late Norman Smith was a classmate of mine at JACHS. I remember an encounter with the business end of a 38 special at the Smith lake boat ramp late one night. I am still Harlan County thru and thru. Elliott County. Mr. Blanton explained the reasoning behind coal camps. I just found this wonderful Blog! Interment was at the Orleans Cemetery.. Bryan Bantam, 93 years of age, or Alma, NE (formerly of Orleans), passed away Sunday, September 12, 2004, at the . It will always be home., Thanks. Basil was born January 18, 1930, in Montevideo, Minnesota, the third of five. Now 75, Chester has endured his share of losses. A meeting of the Brookside women's support group. I still call Harlan home, and as our family decreases, we return to our home to rest in Resthaven until we are all reunited in the hereafter. I have lived here all my life and even tho at times i feel like due to work i may have to leave, i doubt i ever could. Im definitely a Harlan County boy. My grandparents, Elve and Flaura Campbell, moved to Sunshine and eventually to Loyall. My children are fascinated and perhaps slightly horrified that I grew up in Harlan. And to the ones that moved away (say to the north) or wherever, it shows very little respect and class to put down the place you came from. Id hate to have to kill you. Me, my brother and sister went to church every Sundaywe werent allowed to even go to the toilet until after church. . Like inner cities, there are generations locked into a poverty cycle. It is not, as you might think, simply the eastern half of the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. 1939 - 1945 World War II - Ages: 29 - 24 years. . We knew Jimmy Meeks very well. Charlotte, Eaton County, MI, United States Immediate Family: Husband of Neta Belle Collins Father of Robert Basil Collins and Private Collins. He worked at Eastover for several years after the strike until Duke closed the mines. I lived across Pine Mtn. I was raised over the mountain at Little Laurel. Harlan County, Kentucky: Basil Collins miner foreman and leader/manager of the scabs confronts picketers with a 45 in his right pocket. If I knew them personally I would surly let them know about it too. Arthur died when his house burned a few yrs ago. Lots of memories from Harlan. My dad spent much of childhood there in the 30s. If you ever lived in Harlan you have been gone so long you dont know what the hell is going on. I was born and raised in Sunshine. As you know we lived near Evarts. If someone tells you that he or she is from Harlan, they could mean any town from Pathforkto Holmes Mill to Cumberland to Cranks. The folks in Brookside were surely Harlan Countians as was the chief gun "thug," Basil Collins. People gathered at the railroad tracks to watch it. You havent had a grilled cheese sandwich until youve had one made with govment cheese, govment butter and fresh Bunny Bread. About 1,000 people lived there when I was a kid. 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