By Sherri Hicks
These are our cousins on the Terry side of the family but they live in Eolia. Eolia is across Black Mountain and just up from Kingdom Come in Letcher County, Ky.
When I was over there in 1990, I was delivering Census papers and a lady called out to me to tell me she had just seen a big bear right there where I parked my car. I yelled back to her, “There are your census papers!” and I left as quick as I cou1d.
This picture is of Earl and Betty Terry and their daughter. This was taken a couple of family reunions ago; they were too sick to attend this last reunion we had at Ary, Ky. in Perry County, just down from Dwarf and Hazard. We are always saying that you should make time to go to your family reunions because there are less and less who get to attend as their health fails them.
As this past year ended and the new year rolled in I have been in parts of several states just visiting. I hear Kentucky got at least four more inches of snow this week. It was a heavy snow that left them without electricity for a few days.
When I left from Indiana last week at one o’ clock in the morning, we were battling two or three inches there. We stopped off in Middletown and Germantown in Ohio the weekend because of the snow too. I told you my mother’s family lives there.
The one thing that I have noticed is that in Kentucky, the people are lucky because they have the government to take care of them when they are in a bind. The kids don’t do without because there are programs there that take care of them if the families are willing to find the resources they need. I don’t know if they have that in Georgia or Tennessee, but it is needed in some places that are in remote locations…
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