THIS IS MY LIFE HISTORY

 (While I lived at home)

"Be good to it"

Cleo Vermillion McNutt

23 Mar 1916 - 27 Feb 1999

 


Album 1 Album 2 Album 3
   
Original Manuscript Scanned Images Dykes "Magic City" Trio (Music)
   
Family Tree - The Enix Family
  Mommie Married Charles Enix First
Rogersville, Tennessee
Great-Grandmother Enix and Her Grandsons
Back to Nickelsville with Charlie
   
Family Tree - The Vermillion Family
  Childhood Memories
Uncle Bill
About Their Cat
Granny Katie’s Cow Missing
Great-grandma Katie Vermillion
Poked Her in the Rear
Katie Was Married Before
Granddad - the Bear
My Granddad Tom hurt when Hoboing a Train
My Granny Knitting Stump Socks
Making Pictures and Fitting For Glasses
Granddad Could Not Read or Write
Granddad and Granny Vermillion married young
My Dad and His Brother Kelly
Married to Myrtle Porter and Valice Gray
The Black Velvet Band
Dad Having Flu and Double Pneumonia
   
Family Tree - The Addington Family
  My Great-Grandparents
Grandma’s Corncob Pipe
Mammie-Mee
At The Horseshoe Bend
Great Uncles
   
Myrtle Charles Porter
  Log Cabin
Bought Farm with the Log Cabin on It
Log Cabin
Typhoid Fever
Log Cabin Days
Sheep Manure Medicine for Me
Slipping Off to the Branch
Granddad Went to Pee
Sandlarping
The Grindstone
Bud Sampson – Breast Milk
Mommie Finding Hummingbird
How I Found How Little Girls Were Made
I Rode a Pig
Dropped Hick out Back Door
The Hornet Sting
Horse Lying Down to Wallow With Me On It
Cat Pulling My Eyelid
My Bout with Pneumonia – Dr. Wallace
Trying to Cuss
My Musical Beginnings
The House Where Mommie Was Raised
Smelling Tobacco on Upper Porch
Bedtime at Mammie-Mee’s
Watching Chickens Go to Roost
Charley’s Cats
Mammie-Mee Washing My Dress
Going to Mammie-Mee’s When I Was Little Riding Buggy
The Water Wheel
Granny Made Our Dresses and Quilts
Dad Buying a Car
Rabbit Skins to Keep Warm
Crossing Copper Creek After a Rain
The Trip to Rogersville
Pushing the Old Mitchell Car up All the Hills
Grandpa Enix Came to Live with Tom and Nannie
Ending Up With His Son George and Wife Nell
Dad and Mommie Working at Kingsport Press (Night Shift)
Mammy Making Clay Dolls
My Job to Take Care of Hick and Nancy on Waterman Hill
Seat Rock
Dad’s Watermelon Patch
Nancy Wanting Me to Carry Her
Press Bosses
Crawfish
Dancing for Money
The Press Party
Picking Wild Greens
Picking Blackberries
Whiskey
Granddad Liked to Drink
My Dad’s Good Whiskey
Bathroom Duties at the Log House
Rail Fence
Calf Licking Butt
I Danced to Every Sound – Churn, Sewing Machine
My Dad Buying a Casket for Mr. Yoakley
Other People He Buried
Nancy and the Bullfrog
Christmas Day
Lesson on How to Shoot Gun
Finding Shiny Box near a Stump
Dog Toby
Filling Straw Ticks
My Granddad’s Favorite Words were “By George” and Dad-Blame”
Mommie Driving Buggy to Gate City to Take Eggs
Granny’s Shuck Tick
   
School Days
  First School for Me & Hick - Gate City
Biting Boy’s Ears
Kicking Girl
Riverview
   
The House Down On the River
  House Down on River
Dad Working at Brick Yard
Nancy Painted Hair
A Toilet with Holes
Snake Hunting in the Spring
The Black Snake in the Rock Pile
Riding Betty without Bridle
Riding Betty to Mailbox
Riding Plank on Sage Grass
Little Dog, Pitty Pat
Colored Her with Watercolors
Dad Selling Pitty Pat
The Rooster Called Humpty-Dumpty
At Monkey Falls
Finding Still
Trap Door in Middle of Floor
Corn Shucking
Mommie Killing Black Snake
Learning to Swim on a Bucket
Cat Getting Caught in Trap
Dad’s Trap Line - Moles
Hog-Killing Time
Hog Bladder
Cows Mowed the Yard
Our Little Horse Dandy
Dad Making Road Down River
Queenie and the Doodle Bugs
The Home Comfort Range and Linoleum Rug
Sticking My Naked Butt Over Rail
Chinch Bugs
Salt in River
Dad, the Fisherman
Dad, the Hunter
Old Rex
The Night Dad Went to see what was in Chicken Roost
The Day I Wanted to Show How Smart I Was
Possum Grape Wine
Nancy Riding Hog
Trip to Kingsport to Get Hot Dogs
Little Brother Tommy Died
Babies Sammy and Eula
Swinging On Vines
Tea – The Country Kind
Big Cat in Tree
Copperhead in Bean Patch
Working in Garden and River Bank
Wild Strawberries
Setting Tobacco – Picking Off Worms
Churning Butter, Making Buttermilk
About Mailman “Moody” – The Crawfish
Black Snake at Mailbox
Dad and Mom Almost Drowned
Dropping Queenie in River
Boat Riding at Night
How I Learned to Ride a Bicycle
Falling in the Spring in Front of the Mailman
Smoking “Life-Everlasting” and “Smoke Vine”
Mommie’s Bloomers
   
Growing up On the River
  Saturday Nights
Playing Music at Different Places
Hick and Nancy
Queenie
Our Little Dancing House
Swimming in the Summer
Anti-Over
Kingsport
Going Out
Church
Plowing Dad’s Fields
Helping Dad Plow
   
Recent History
  Harry “Hick” Died
Grandparents
My History
   
Mamaw

This page was last updated on 03/06/12.