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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] IT'S (Not) HERE
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:12:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: <006801c3d262$a97bb2b0$03fea8c0@LIBRARY>


Well guys and gals,

I moved on Feb 28, 2002 and got city water at the same time. This was
not the first time I had city water.

I do remember that we had city water in Miami from about 1942 until we
left in 1963. I moved to Decatur, Georgia and had city water there until
1966. Then I moved to Mint Hill, North Carolina and was on a well until
1970. I moved back to Decatur, Georgia and was on city water again until
1979. Then off to Whitehouse Station, New Jersey and back on a well
until 1988 (the New Jersey house was built circa 1755 before the United
States existed. I moved to Cumming, Georgia and was on a well until Feb
28, 2002 when I moved into my present home in Cumming, Georgia also.

I believe that the well water still taste better than the processed city
water.

I do not remember ever having an outhouse as a primary fixture but I did
own one from 1979 to 1988 while I lived in New Jersey.

I have had a zip code for several years now and I did receive my package
a few days ago as reported in a prior post (Zip code 30040).

Myrnice

Eddie Herring wrote on Saturday, January 03, 2004 8:33 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] IT'S (Not) HERE
>
> Teresa
> I had left home and joined the Air Force by the time my family got
"city
> water." I can still remember living in a house on cut stone, about 3
feet
> or so off the ground, not underpinned, and the only heat was a
fireplace
> in
> the living room and a wood cookstove. We had no indoor plumbing, an
> outhouse back (North) of the house, and a well about 300 feet or so
(East)
> from the house (downhill). We had to "tote" water from the well for
> drinking as well as for bathing. My Dad, my brother and I hand dug a
> second
> well one year because the first one kept going dry. We did (and stiIl
do)
> live on top of the mountain. I can remember on really cold nights
> holding
> our pillows in front of the fireplace until we'd see the heat vapor
rising
> and then running and jumping in bed. Mother would pile several quilts
on
> top of us to keep us warm. Now I can sit in my library in my home in
> front
> of my secondary computer and download TMG, be using it while talking
to
> people all over the world about our common genealogical interests, or
go
> to
> specific websites and learn about specific items of genealogy, or
visit my
> own website, or go to another room and get on the main family
computer,
> both
> hooked together in network with broadband access, all while staying
warm
> from central heat and drinking bottled water. I'm 50 but a lot has
> changed
> in that 50 years. This is a great country!
> Eddie
>
"Teresa Ghee Elliott" wrote on Saturday, January 03, 2004 4:39 PM
> Subject: RE: [TMG] IT'S (Not) HERE
>
>
> > Eddie,
> > No, I am in Alabama too, and it ain't here yet either. You get zip
> codes
> > after electricity. You guys got that yet? <G> I remember the day we
got
> > "city water" to our house when I was a senior in high school. We
had
> always
> > had well water and our well supplied four families and it would run
dry
> in
> > the summer. (I am only 38 in case you are wondering) Mom let me
stay
> home
> > from school and watch the guys connect our house to the water
system.
> Then
> > we all had some "city water." I remember thinking the old stuff
sure
> did
> > taste better, but then in the summer, it sure was nice to take a
bath in
> > clean bath water. <G>
> >
> > Teresa Ghee Elliott
> > Any information I give that you can't find in your version of TMG
5.1 is
> > probably due to customization on my part.
> > For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-
> page.org
> > For TMG sentences
> >
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html>;
> >
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