Gass Family Reunion - Stories from People Who Once Called Smoky Mountain Park Home
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Recently I attended the Gass Family Reunion. It's been going on for over 40 years! I had a great time and enjoyed learning about the Gass, Conner, and Dowdle families who called Swain County home.
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I Love Old Stories and Old Pictures. 😊
Caution. Investigating Family History can be addictive. 😊
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How wonderful that Debbie spent so much time and energy on documenting the original history. Lovely photos. Gone but not forgotten 😊 Thank you Tipper for sharing with us.
Tipper this is so amazing! I moved to Virginia to help my 96 1/2 year old aunt. her family was forced off their land to make way for the Shenandoah National Park. she has ancestors in most of the cemetaries within the park. It is so amazing to me to see where some of the homesteads were.
I love listening to the rich history of Appalachia. It’s nice to see families taking care to preserve such precious history!🙏❤️🇨🇦
Beautiful story❣️
A lot of people in that family. That lady has done a wonderful job cataloging her lineage❣️
My brother and I had a bear cub in a tree wave at us when we were walking the Alum Cave Bluff trail. I had walked up to meet him as he hiked down from Mt. Le Conte. My mom had been walking with me until a couple told us they had seen a mama bear with cubs further up the trail. Hahaha she turned around immediatly and went with that couple back to the car. An older couple still going up said I could walk up with them so I did. It is a beautiful trail but now makes me sad since I have learned the history of the park. Thank you for sharing these family stories with us Tipper. I loved that the families conversations were murming like a creek in the background during you talking to Debbie.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Great video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What a wonderful look into that family history. Thank you for bringing us along Tipper.
So glad you enjoyed it Robin 😊
My grandmother was a gass
Love that!
I would have loved to walk along the land, then be still closing my eyes, trying to visualize the families from the pictures, and of those days gone by. I always look forward to learning more about the wonderful folks and history of Appalachia. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🌄
That was great Tipper. I appreciate hearing about families that lived where The Gov’t. took over. A grandson whose grandparents lived in Greenbrier made me a wooden black capped chickadee when I visited Gatlinburg. I could’ve sat and listened to his stories all day. I also took a hike up to the walker sisters cabin and before that visited their school house where a friend of the walker sisters told stories and had items that belonged to them. Love the history of the mountains.
What an incredible video. Such a treasure to have the spinning wheel at the reunion! She did a great job of capturing her family history for future generations to learn about. What a great job she did!
Debbie has such a sweet sweet spirit about her, I love to hear her talk. You can tell her heart is in what she’s talking about.
As always I enjoyed your video
She is so nice! So glad you enjoyed it 😊
We did a vacation to Smoky Mountains last year, and it's a beautiful area rich in history, culture, and nature. A lot of love and time was put into all this family history shared, it's amazing.
Love hearing the history and seeing the old photos. Thank you Tipper for your part in keeping these histories alive.
Love seeing the old photos :) What a wonderful visual of her families history ❤
Thanks Tipper so much! Florence is my great grandmother! Annie her daughter is my grandmother! My mom was 3 when they moved from the park to Whittier Nc! My grandfather owned a store in Whittier then they moved to Asheville! Florence grandmother Sophia when her husband Ephriam Mingus passed away she moved to Canton Nc! Her son Charles was one of the pastors at the Old Locus Field Church/ Cemetery! Years ago there was a church close to the cemetery! 🥰❤️
Oh I love that!! 😊
Outstanding!
Thank you for sharing the history of your area. Fascinating.
So glad you enjoyed 😊
Enjoyed Tipper love to see old pictures and houses in the olden days❤️ Shelby
Glad you enjoyed 😊
Interesting video Tipper, genealogy is a fascinating subject, it brings to life all those forgotten generations and gives them a voice again to say " Hey, I passed by here once, but for us you wouldn't be you, you're welcome". I know from experience researching my own genealogy that it's a real rabbit hole once you go down it, you never know where it'll bring you out. I read a biography on Amelia Erhart and she described landing in a field in County Londonderry here after her flight across the Atlantic. It turned out the field was owned by relations of her maternal great grandmother, who'd left the family farm and emigrated to the states early the previous century. The world really is a village!
Most we can hear is mumbling i am so sorry. You come in clear as a bell. Every now and again you can hear him a little clear .
Love that story Wallace 😊
What dedicated, detailed, careful work goes into this!
I know! Debbie and everyone who helped did such a great job with the reunion 😊
I love stories like this! Reminds me of listening to momma & daddy talk about their lives growing up. I didn't have the luxury of knowing either set of grandparents or a lot of kin on either side. Guess I was just born too late in momma's life when a lot of both families had moved away or had passed away. I was daddy & momma's shadow since everyone was much older than me. Thanks, Tipper, for bringing these to us! Blessings to you always from VA! ✝️
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Love old stories and seeing old photos thank you for sharing 😊
It was nice of You and Don to honor their reunion.
What a treasure to see all this!!!!
Makes me want to go back & visit more of the Park!!♥️
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Great visiting ❤
Such a great video. So much knowledge to be learned from some of the best folks in the United States.
I love the smoky mountains
Thank you Tipper, very nice Family memory's. God Bless. 💚&🙏🙏's. Jean
Glad you enjoyed Jean 😊
It is so interesting to see the beautiful photos of the old houses from that time. Great video!
Wow! What an awesome job she has done and tracing her family. A lifetime of work really. Such a treasure to have all the information and photographs. I really enjoyed hearing about it. Bittersweet that the home places had to be destroyed but thankful they have photo records of them. I find it interesting that even so far back in secluded areas of the past family photographs were able to be taken.
Thank you very much Tipper for the amazing history before the national parks came to be. I enjoyed it
OMGosh this so interesting. This kind of history is stuff of legend. I’m a fan of Alvin York and I can imagine someone doing this for his family.
Wow tipper this family goes way back how wonderful is that
And the pictures were also so awesome to see how this family lived together and help each other and now have family reunion s for the younger generation to come. God bless this family ❤ patsy
Glad you enjoyed it
That was extra special, I love that they had made arrangements for the spinning wheel to be at the reunion… very touching🌷
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
Rutherfordton N.C 👋👍✌️
My at the work Debbie has put into securing her family’s heritage. What a lovely thing to do (just realized, I picked this word up from you ❤). What wonderful memories to reminisce about. The scenery was beautiful. Thanks for sharing!!
I've hiked to Alum Cave...back in the day👍 I always enjoy seeing the old pictures... Thanks Tipper ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Tipper--As I'm sure you realized, with Br'er Don also pointing out the magical music of a stream, Collins Creek is a special place. Our immediate family gathered there numerous times over the years to picnic. One note that will be of particular interest to any readers who enjoy trout fishing is that Collins Creek, never mind that it is quite small and terribly overgrown, was the favorite fishing destination of the late Harry Middleton. In truth Harry wasn't a particularly adept fisherman, but he was a writer of tremendous talent. In his book "On the Spine of Time: An Angler's Love of the Smokies," there's quite a bit about Collins Creek (a fair portion of it is fictional).
While it is far too late in the season to enjoy the wild vegetable that is branch lettuce (saxifrage), it grows in great abundance in the portion of Collins Creek near the picnic area.
Jim Casada
Oh i LOVE that country, would love to have a place there! How wonderful to be on land that was my family and legacy! I love it in NW Arkansas,the Ozarks Missouri,North and South Carolina. the little branches creeks,clear cool water lots of trees vegetatation,bushes flowers,and can raise gardens fruits and berries! After I learned about Jewelweed I tried to get starts,or seeds!! Found out jewelweed was in touchmenot family. How blessed
people were, even if it was hard
living.
Tipper, my Great-grandparents were displaced off of their farm and home place when Ft Hood in central Texas was built in the 1940's. There are several family cemeteries that are still located there.. as a family we had access to them through the Army but after 9-11 it is very hard to get access to them. Very sad.
Such an interesting video. ⚘ Thank you all.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is such an interesting video. The hours Debbie must have spent on the family book! History is so important.
This is interesting video I love listening to there culture thanks tipper God bless everyone and happy 4th July everyone 😊
Loved this video. Her collection of info and pictures was very impressive.
Thanks so much!
I just received your cookbook! I am so excited, beyond words!
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Oh I hope you like it 😊
I really enjoyed my trip and all the information. I reconized some old timey names Wyhelia and Haselteen similar in our family
My 2nd g grandma was Sarah Gass. My Gass line was from Kentucky and Tennessee moving into Arkansas.
Love that!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I have been to that store in Dandridge. I would love to be able to connect with Debbie to see if I can connect the dots to that Gass line. More than likely they are connected.
@@carylosborn1808 Email me at tipperpressley@gmail.com and I will share your email with her 😊
Amazing!
Tipper, I loved this!! I am a Taylor and many of my kin came from this area, N Carolina, Kentucky and southern Indiana. Pictures you showed, resemble many of my old pitchers of Taylor Folks. Thank you for sharing this great history. 💕🙏🙏
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Love hearing people talk about their family! Thanks for sharing this with us! God bless them and you! 😀❤️
Wonderful reunion and history. It would be sensible to build within hearing and see distance of creeks because of the labor involved in carrying household water
Thank you for sharing your journey to the family reunion. It's so wonderful when the history is preserved by family members through pictures & stories.
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Love when you visit and learn the history of the people and their ancestors
Enjoying this video!
Love hearing all the stories and glad there are still pictures from years ago.
Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoyed seein the old time pictures and hearin the stories about these people... fascinating!
Whenever you want to go to Chambers Cemetery let me know. I was at the Gass reunion and met you and Don. Don and I walked up to where the Dowdle Cabin used to be.
It was so good to meet you Lorrie!! You have the best laugh ever 😊 and a very sweet spirit 😊
I love history. I love stories of days gone by and the old photos of the people and their homes. The spinning wheel was really cool too. Thanks, and God bless!
Thank you so much. It’s especially nice to see and hear the history on the 4th of July.❤🧨🇺🇸these are the people who built our country. Happy Independence Day y’all.Brooks,Oregon.
Thank you for sharing the history of your area fascinating ❤
Our pleasure!
It is amazing that people still pass down family history.
If people were moved of their homestead for public parks, I do not understand how private companies can charge for the resources they take from the parks.
Happy 4th of July pretty view of everything stay safe and God bless you all
Very interesting
Oh my goodness, that big scrapbook is amazing! I love researching family history and making those connections between families in an area. Very neat listening to Debbie
Hey Tipper, fascinating video. I'd like to be able to go back in time to see it. Although it would be a hard life in comparison to what we have now.
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Amazing…those people were cut out of a different cloth than people of today. Like Pap would say…we’ve gotten soft. 😊
So true 😊
Thanks for this video. It sure was interesting. Dennis Morgan
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video. I enjoyed you taking us along.
Happy 4th of July to you and your family🎉🎉🎉😊
Thanks so much 😊
So interesting! Enjoyed the visit with the Gass's. Yep geneology is a huge hole ti fall into. I love it though. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
My grandmother's oral history includes ancestors from the southern Appalachian area. The story went that the family was burned out by Sherman's army as they marched to the sea in the scorched earth campaign to end the civil war. There was a surviving son, ---later a farmer in rural Florida, my mother's grandfather, named Pinkney King, born during the Civil war. The names in your Gass family genealogy are intriguingly suggestive that he may have been related to people in that part of NC????
(I'd love to know if the Gass family has any more info about the roots of Horus, -or Horace, King Gass!)
I also watch The Appalachian Channel. He highlights old general stores and he has been to Dandridge. I wonder if he has filmed that store?
So fascinating to be able to see the old home places and then actually going to the location.
I watch 4 channels from your area and even though you may not know one another, you all have intersected at some point in your videos.
(Btw, i made your biscuit recipe finally using White Lily self rising flour rather than a.p. flour, baking powder and salt. What a difference! It is all about that flour! The texture is softer and so much more fluffier and delicious!)
Yay for the biscuits 😊 Thank you for supporting all of us!!
All these people are in my family tree but there is still a lot to glean from Debbie's presentation.
I keep hoping that someone will discover the forgotten part of Swain County and invite you to it. Almond, Needmore, Euchella, Wesser, Silvermine, Nantahala and many more. I would if I could but I can't!
I wish you could Papaw!!
How much I wish we could stop history or so called progress and preserve these beautiful places. Tragic, really that they are slipping away.
Every time I turn my iPad on,I expect to see some guys fishing.
Exhaustive research. This must have taken a long time and an amazing amount of time. Excuse my previous post I missed a “is”.
Hi Tipper, can you share the recipe of how you made the pepper spray for the squash bugs. Or link the video where you talk about it?! Thank you!
I would like the recipe too. Something is attacking my tomatoes.
😊 here's the one I used: diynatural.com/hot-pepper-homemade-garden-bug-spray/
@@CelebratingAppalachia thank you!
@@CelebratingAppalachiaThank you very much for posting the pepper spray source.😊
Maybe I should know this but where in this did the one you refer to as Granny Gas fit?
Mine is Granny Gazzie 😊
I couldn't really understand what was being said. The audio didn't work for me. I could hear bits and pieces, but I actually gave up after a few minutes. 😢
Tipper, maybe it was said at one point in the video, but is this your family reunion? Mary
It isn’t my family 😊 thank you for watching!
Tipper, now you have to relate these old ways with reality and new ways to make everything you do relevant.
So they were forced out of their homes for a park? 😢
Yes to create the Great Smoky Mountain Park. Thank you for watching!
Too much background noise to hear speaker
It was a family reunion so of course there will be lots of people talking in the background.