My Appalachian People
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- In Appalachia you'll often hear folks talking about "their people." Sometimes they mean their family or their friends and neighbors. Other times they mean other people who share their same interests. Thinking of your people often causes you to think of home. Watch this video to see some of my people and to hear one Pap's original songs.
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I just started crying when you said you consider 'me', "your people". Southern born and raised by the Grace of God! Amen. Thank you and I'm proud and honored to be included as 'your people'!! Please keep sharing your Celebration of Appalachia!! God bless! Your Pap's song is just beautiful!!
When growing up in Eastern Ky the first question people used to ask was "Whose boy air you? Out in the greater world no one ever asked that.
James-I love that! I've been asked who my people are too 😀
Don’t forget the Jones’s
Your work and your words touch me deeply. I am thinking tonight of my people-family, friends, brothers and sisters in Christ. Thank you so much!
Tipper, that song and them pictures have me sittin' here with tears just rolling down my face. If I didn't know better, I'd swear we were distant kin. Then again, because of you and your channel, I feel we are ALL distant kin. God bless you all from West Virginia
The longer I live the more I think we are all distant kin....in one way or another. I live here in Ontario Canada and so many of the things Tipper talks about are a part of MY life and culture the same as hers. And "my people" is a phrase I use almost every day.
@@heatherinparis I kinda agree with you!
I couldn’t agree more. I’m still going through Videos most everyday.... 😂😊💕
You are definately some of my people.Our old photos look like yours just different litters.I hope you won't stop doing what you're doing which is writing history.I think it's very very important for people to know about Appalachia and to know how our hearts feel right now.You Tipper are priceless yourself. Thank you! Thank all of you.
Same!
Thank you Ron 😀
Thank you!!
I sat here watching the pictures and listening to the song with tears running down my face. How I love 'my people' how I miss so many of them, but how excited I am to watch the young ones come along and become 'my people'. My Appalachian Ma'am and Pap made sure I knew how blessed I was every day of my life. I will always be able to say, "I was loved and I have loved".
Dame-that is wonderful! I'm so glad you had such good people 😀
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In talking about your people, Tipper, you used the word "priceless" several times, and it struck me as being absolutely 100 percent fitting and proper. The look back into your family's history that you opened this presentation with impressed me as being priceless, before you uttered the word, and I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate seeing the old photos and hearing Pap's original song that you chose to accompany those precious images. Well done, and many, many thumbs up!
Thank you Noah-I appreciate you!
Love this post
Brought tears to my eyes thinking of my people who are mostly gone now, especially parents and grandparents. Loved the song. Thank you for sharing with us.
This video really touched me. I have boxes of photos of "my people" posed just like you did. Black and white pics, old people in rockers on the porch holding hands, young couple astride a big motorcycle or leaning against their "new" car. And rows and rows of children, mostly redheads. Never in my life did I hear my parents mention "vacation". We were always "goin back home". Mama and Daddy married in 1950 but Cleveland was never home. I was taken to WVA to show off to my Papaw the day they released me and Mama from the hospital! Six days later Mamas Daddy was dead and we headed back for the funeral. Mama didnt feel right until she was on the other side of the river. Thats why when Mama died we took her back home and laid her with her parents. Ill stay up here with Daddy and my sister and brothers. Seperated in this world but together in the next. Thank you Tipper. Its nice to hear people's recollections of the past. 🌹
Goodness Tipper…I sure love the old pics and music. I could cry just listening to you. I feel so homesick for my people occasionally. They are all gone now but I try to remember, not to cry because that’s over…I smile because I got to be a part of it. ❤️❤️❤️
Rhonda-so true we need to smile because we had them!
Since I've been watching your channel, and with the way you've opened your life to us, I've considered you and yours my "kind" of people. Now that you went a step further and consider us as "your" people, I'm honored and flattered.
That is so kind-thank you Richard 😀
Here I go crying again. WOW, it never fails you bring back all the old memories and bust open this tender heart. And Tipper I'd love to know where all the women with your kind heart is, because there sure ain't many left.
One of the reasons I love to watch your channel is that you remind me of all the little expressions, food, and traditions that I grew up with including the people that filled my childhood. Again and again the things you talk about strike a chord and bring back a sweet memory. Our "people" made us who we are. The greatest joy however will be the day when those of us who are believers are all together with those who have gone before us and in that wonderful day we will ALL be each other's people. :)
We did our family history, and we go back to 1300 AD.
This is in Holland.
We come to Australia in 1956.
Most delightful Tipper.
Thank you.
I went through this for years, but Dad remarried and so ended our Dutch language.
So Myrtleford Australia became my people and love for the mountains.
touching to be thought of as as part of your people, thank you!
For a good part of my growing up years we didn't have a television, even though they were common, and our entertainment was my daddy telling us stories of his childhood, or before his time. He filled our heads and hearts with a love for our history in the foothills of north Georgia. Actually, he filled all 4 of his children with a love for all history. We all truly enjoy hearing anyone's history, especially if it is similar to our rural, country heritage. I feel like anyone who loves the heritage you relate on here is "My People". I hope that everyone has a chance to recognize and relate to their "People". It's not just a bloodline. It's a shared heart. Find your "People".
I would be proud to be one of your people. I too have been reminiscing today.
Mrs. Presley,
Lost my Papaw/best friend in March of last year. If it could be one day and I knew he wouldn't suffer I'd go back. Your Dad's song put a tear In my eye. You have outdone yourself with this one.
Sincerely,
A Tennessee Boy who is proud of his people
The music is superb!! Love the song! Seeing your family was so heartwarming. Our families mean everything to us! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
My people lived in Cherokee deep in the mountains..it took a day hike to get to my great mama Snows place. I cried and closed my eyes listening to this beautiful tribute. I know my people are with Christ but I miss them so much! Thank you for bringing back the memories..the smells and smiles of so long ago..God bless you, you dear sweet soul. I love my ppl so much..how I long for these days now its a world of fast change and I miss the simplistic life of my ppl..here I am 44 and feel so blessed to remember those souls..on Sundays it's truly the time I think of them..you are truly a blessing to share your life with us..ty from the bottom of my heart..
Samuel-you're so kind-thank you!
Sister I feel it too. I have been lost in memories. I just got home after being out of town seeing and spending time with my grandson who is now a year and a half old. He is the youngest of my 13 grandbabies and I will be a great grandma for the first time come November. My youngest daughter and I spent so much time talking about family and all the things our family have went thru that have made us who we are today. I miss my momma so much and all my siblings. I miss the daddy I never knew. I love when my baby girl and I get together because she loves to hear the echoes of family past. We both find ourselves crying over the hardships they went thru and laughing over the silly things they said and done. My people worked hard in the coal mines and cotton mills. They played hard too. When we all would get together it was a wonderful experience. I am sad though that my children and grandchildren will never know those times in the past when communicating met you set on the front porch and talked and sang with family, friends and neighbors. It was about being outside not caught up in the TV and video games or constantly on the cell phone. My oldest daughter and youngest daughter of my 6 kids understand this. It's so easy to get lost in the world today instead of leaning on the Lord and know he will meet your needs. I am glad I was at my daughter's because I could feel my heart getting heavy. I lost my last sibling, my oldest sibling to breast cancer this time of the year 4 yrs ago. It breaks my heart every year when those days roll around where one of My people got to go home. God bless I really enjoyed the music
What a lovely video you made. I loved the song that went with it. I admit it put a lump in my throat and shed a few tears thinking of loved ones that are no longer here but, we have the hope of being reunited with our loved ones again.
This really tugged at my heart strings. It took me back to my childhood, seeing my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins in West Virginia. How I miss them.
My father had to relocate us to Ohio when the mines closed and I moved on to California as a young man.
I remember the times at my mom's family home when the sun went down and you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
I remember my dad and his family getting together to play their instruments and sing. It was glorious in retrospect.
I can still remember with clarity the funerals of my loved ones where they were laid to rest in the Appalachian mountains.
Those mountains are in my heart even though I'm no longer in those mountains.
Michael-I'm so glad it took you back to good memories 😀
January 8th 2023
Been thinkin about my people🤗😢
Thanks for the Memories
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I was born in the area (the old hospital "up the hill" in Murphy) but raised elsewhere in my formative years (dad and mom moved a couple hours away to find a better job) but I always will remember going "out to the country" to visit everyone every now and then (me in the backseat with my pillow, my Snoopy coloring books and crayons...with me falling asleep to the sound of the wipers when it inevitably started raining). It was so exciting - seeing relatives I actually remembered, hugging my Pop (Cecil Phillips), playing in creeks! I miss that joy - the joy of seeing MY people.
Nicely done. I was born and raised in Texas, but definitely feel the connection through the values we share. I found your channel through the video your daughter made for making soap. It is wonderful to see these wholesome skills being passéd down to the next generation. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate that!
Well I loved your video and your daddy's song. Tears are in my eyes thinking about all my people that are gone. Thank you Tipper for just being real and true to your feelings. Pap I'm sure would be so proud of you.
That is so sweet! Thank you Ruthann 😀
I can't begin to say just how much this video has touched my heart. May God richly bless our people.
I think you as my people/ I just met my 24 years grandson that Ive not seen in 24 years, he and his father came ti visit me today, So seeing your video just now as they left was sometihing special, thank you.
Larry-that is so wonderful! I'm so very glad you got to meet him-that just makes my day 😀
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Tipper you have a precious gift of having your people ie your family. I am estranged from my family and home right now. Yearning to go back home to the mountains of home. For I miss them dearly. My late father in law at his end of life would talk about missing home and his people. He was true mountain folk.
How long estranged?
@@marilynpeppers1356 it’s been years!
@@hack2it …are you waiting on them to make the call?
@@marilynpeppers1356 NO! Been reaching out to agencies in that state, but I have to be a resident is what we are getting. My mother and me don’t get along also.
@@hack2it …best wishes for your efforts to be successful.
Hope it turns out well for you.
I too long to go back home just one more time and be with my family that's gone on ..it was simpler times back then and it made for wonderful memories !
I hear you loud and clear my thoughts exacly. Take care,,,
Thank you Kathy 😀
I loved the song & seeing those old pictures. It took me back many years.
All us "old heart" people might also be your people
Yes! 😀
In the sweet, bye and bye. You will see them and sing and play together for eternity. That keeps me happy and focused when I get down and remembering all of my people here in upstate SC, Chester Co. Loved your Pap’s song. I will be trying to memorize it!
I was thinking while you were talking about your people how you have 65K people. I'm an only child of two only children and I long for a big family who have the same values as I have. I guess y'all are my virtual people.
Yes-we are a virtual family 😀 I'm beyond thrilled that you and others stop by to help me celebrate all the good things Appalachia has to offer 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia When I think of Appalachia I think of home and family. It's a place where time runs a little slower, people are generous and kind and love faith, family, and freedom. It will always be my home, my heart.
I understand your pain. It is not fun being an only offspring who has quickly become a mis age person. I miss my denton and mom's jones family gatherings from my childhood in 1970's and 1980's. Mom had 4 siblings and dad had 5 brother's. I miss those big family gatherings at the holiday seasons.
@@harolddenton6031 I think of the phrase "You can never go home again". I think it's because we're not kids, but also because family has scattered around the country or have gone home to wait for us. I guess we can remember the great times and have hope for a huge family reunion one day.
I want to thank you so much, Tipper, for your Pap's song and the pictures. And sharing with us about your family and for your concern and love for your viewers.
It makes me appreciate the sacrifices our people made for us. I don't know too much about some of my family's history, but I know that they were hard-working farmers.
Thank you again! God bless you!
You are so blessed to have those precious, sweet, photos of your people. My people, those photos were lost in a flood in 1982. My Momma cried so hard. Make copies or put your video in a very safe place. You never know when you'll lose your pictures. I am the only one left in my family. I agree with a visit in the past. Wow, that would be awesome.
I'm so sorry you lost those photos!!
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As I was watching this video and listening to the song I started reminiscing about so many of MY PEOPLE that have passed on and one part of me feels sad but the other part of me is a proud feeling of being a part of MY PEOPLE. I miss my mama so much!! I loved the pictures of the old time baptism in the creek, that’s how we still do it around here. I’m also thankful for MY PEOPLE here on TH-cam like you and your family and so many others. So enjoyed this video our friend. GOD Bless Y’all. 🙏🏻👍🏻😇🙌🏻
So glad you enjoyed it Pastor Lon-we appreciate you and Robbie Lynn 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you Ms. Tipper! GODS Blessings To You All. 👍🏻🙏🏻😇🙌🏻
Tipper,
Your video really touched my heart. Especially when you were talking about your dad. I lost both my parents last year, my father didn’t last very long after my mother passed after 60 years of marriage.
One of the many things they did together were “chalk talks” at different churches as well as prison ministries. My father, who was an Italian tenor, would sing while my mother created spectacular pictures. She also sometimes accompanied my dad on the piano. Your music reminded me of my father because he really loved the old-time country music.
Thank you for sharing your family’s stories and talents. We’ll all see our passed loved ones when we go to glory-/
Dawn D
Those pictures could be of almost every family in Appalachia. I had to pay attention to the faces, I was waiting to see Mommy and Poppy in one of them. I've found that western North Carolina, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southern West Virginia are all my people. 20 years behind and loving it. God Bless.
A part of our hearts will always linger back there where we were surrounded 24/7 by our people! The old baptizing is particularly near and dear to my heart. Preacher Day and Preacher Norman baptized in the swimming hole. So many of “my people” have gone on including family and friends. I keep in close touch with those that are left.
I miss driving through the mountains of West Virginia on my way home from Norfolk when I was in the navy. Wish I made more stops along the way. I'm sure I'll wind up there in the future again. All the best.
I had to replay that intro several times. The song and performance are both awesome. The pictures bring back so many wonderful memories of "our" people. I was baptised in the creek. Granddaddy growed the watermelons for us. I have my daddy's fox horn. Yes that ox horn the man is holding to his mouth is used to call the dogs in from hunting. Daddy ran fox hounds but the horn was also used for any dog that was run at night. Before there was lots of roads and traffic the sound of that horn would carry cross country for miles. Thank you for arranging, producing and publishing this wonderful video. God's Blessings to all.
So glad you enjoyed the video! Papaw Wade was a big fox hunter in his younger days 😀
Thank you so much Ms. Tipper for sharing your family with all of us. I am very blessed to have grown up with good Christian "people". All those photos bring back memories of grand and great grand parents that have gone on to be with the Lord. Like the old song Precious Memories, how they linger, I find myself also thinking more about those days gone by. I'm sure it's because we are now becoming the older generation. There is going to be a great home coming day one of these days before to long and if I don't meet you here on this side, I'll meet you over yonder. We are "People".
Greetings from Cherokee county Oklahoma. Those pictures look just like my pictures, only the faces are different.
That is so great 😀
I think that same thing sometimes, I wish I could go back for a day. I think the older we get the more we miss those times.
My ancestors paved my way. I'll always be grateful from where I came from.
My people.
My family was in West Virginia till the early 1900’s but there are still many that are still in the area.
I did enjoy it. Quite a bit. I was first struck by how much people are people. Slightly different faces, but the same none-the-less. The second thing I was struck by was how well-crafted a song that is. It's a gift to be able to write a song like that. I might be able to play it and sing it, but I couldn't create it; not on my very best day. A fine post ma'am.
Sure wouldn't mind seeing grandpa again one day.
Tipper I would imagine everybody has the felling they would love to go back and see our dear departed loved ones. My Mom and Dad are both gone now and i had a very vivid dream of them the other night. As I was wakeing up I found myself fighting to stay asleep just to spend a little more time with them. I found myself a little melancholy the whole day after that dream. And my mountain home calls to me now. I feel I must and will move back there soon. Yes mountain folk are our people. God bless you and yours.❤
What a marvelous tenor voice Pap had! I don't think I have heard that song before. It is really good!
I've been following you all for a decade now. I have seen the girls turn into beautiful young ladies. I have watched their music mature as well. I have watched you and Matt become more successful, more settled and seemingly more happy. That has helped me be more happy too. I consider you all my people and sincerely hope you feel the same about me. I know I've said some things sometimes that you considered ill willed but that is the difficulty in expressing oneself in the written word. There can be no sounds of joy and laughter in the printed word nor the sight and taste of tears. I am crying as I type this but you have no way of knowing. But how else do we communicate from afar?
Papaw-you are without a doubt family to us! You've encouraged us all for the whole of that decade and we could never repay you for all you've done for the whole bunch of us!! 😀
As I get older I cherish the old ways. My Granfather was from North Carolina and my Grandmother grew up in Clayton Georgia and they taught me so much and it passed to my Mom and Dad. I too would love to go back in time and relive those days growing up. I miss so much how things used to be when there was no internet and times were simple. People visited each other and took care of each other and they made it through with so little but we made up for it in Love and kindness. Good times we will never see again!
Oh my Lord, the first couple looked like my Great Grandparents. What a beautiful compilation 🙏
Thank You!! This came at a right time for me.
East Tennessee boy in Ga.
Wonderful, reminds me of my grandparents. I'd love to go back and sit with them one more time. My great grandma "granny" was a Jenkins. I don't think we realize how precious and wonderful they are until they're not here anymore.
Loved your video!! YES!! to go back...dinner on ther grounds after church, swimming in the creek with cousins, our fathers in canoes paddling us thethered to them in innertubes, granddad wanting me to pour him "3fngers of wine" in his class! You brought back sooooo many memories! Thank you!
Tipper you really nailed the feelings and thoughts I have when I think back and remember my people. Yes I'm happy in the present, but oh to go back for a day to be with all those precious souls that are my people. Priceless. Thank you, again for you and your family's videos. Bless you all.
I don't often long to go back but I yearn to go to heaven. I know they are there and I miss them dearly. Fall is hard for me. That seems to be the time of year I most long to be with them. Thank you for sharing. It blessed my heart today.
Here I sit, an old man, who still misses his Granny and Pa, their house, the fields and garden. Eating a tomato just picked and still warm from he sun. Following Pa around, going into the woods with him and sawing trees. Every time I see one of those two man saws, I automatically think of Pa and me. Their house had four rooms, and each had a door to outside. All the rooms had beds in them except the kitchen. Granny could cook anything on that wood burning stove. There was electricity, but no plumbing. We drank from a bucket and a dipper, that ol' well drawn sulfur water. Hollyhocks, buttercups, honeysuckle, blackberry bushes, seven sisters roses, grapevines, cedar trees, they are all rooted deep within me. As are the memories... A beautiful video, beautiful song, thank you...
I sure have a bunch of good memories, and Im trying as best as I can to leave good ones for my kids and grand kids too.
Great song Tipper. This video put tears to my eyes, thinking about "my people" who are now gone. I would love to have supper one more time with my grandparents and aunts-uncles. All the best to you and "your people". 🥰
Lovely...
Thanks 😊
Well Tipper I'm one of those Knights up round Asheville, we now live in Alabama but my beautiful bride and I just drove through your neck of the woods to celebrate our anniversary in Almond NC if it wasn't for our children and grandchildren we would be living in North Carolina, this hillbilly loves those mountains, I was almost in tears as we drove through the gorge towards Andrews,Murphy into Cleveland and back home. I miss my people
Yep. When I left this area and started a family, I never forgot my bringin' up in the Crossroads. And when I ever came back, I always drove through there first. Went down the road very slowly, down to the old church, and stopped by the graveyard to say "Hi". It is like stepping back. Love that place.
So you got those big eyes from your mama. Now your daughters too. I have
always loved seeing old family photos. They are stories from the stories of our big world family. God bless all of us with love & understanding for all of us. I loved his song.
My people originate from eastern Tennessee and Virginia, they moved to Maryland in the 40s in search of jobs ,but they brought their southern ways with them, so that's what I grew up on :) my parents took us "home" 4 and 5 times a year and summers were spent at cousins in Tennessee , in my heart the south is my true home, as a child with my mother we visited a friend of hers parents who lived in NC in a little farm house at the bottom of a mountain it had a stream behind the house with a little footbridge she had chickens and hogs , I had biscuits and gravy every morning I helped do chores ,I think I was about 12 , it left a lasting memory that was my favorite place on earth , im feeling very homesick now 💙
My people are the people of East Tennessee. I have recently accessed the archives of the national park service records when they forced my grandfather and great grandfather to leave their ancestral homes in what is now the national park..
It was heartbreaking for them. I so remember my grandparents, parents and aunts and uncles recalling the agony they experienced having to leave the only home they knew.
I have many ancestors buried inside the today park boundaries. My great grandfather John Barnes old home rock chimney still stands up greenbrier. My grandfathers little sisters headstone still there in the yard
Y'all look just like us...... We have a whole box of old polaroid pictures..... takes me back..... good times real good times but we all sure worked hard....... and of course we remember THE CARS .....LOL...especially summertime..... and the dust from cars ahead..... a car would go flying by "boy howdy, he shore covered us up that time" ..... after awhile we could roll the winders back down..... LOL..... thank you so much .... this was just like looking at our (well, now just my) family pictures.....bless you all
Going home, I know exactly what you mean, I often go home in my.mind, hot summer evenings here in Australia, lying on a rug in the yard with my dad listening to the country and western hour. Whenever I hear the green green grass of home, I am home and 6 years old again. Summer playing in the creek, catching tadpoles, picking mulberry straight from the trees. Our childhood sound very similar, God bless you.
Tipper, I found your channel during a search for homestead living, and I’m glad I did. I can’t explain it, but learning about life in Appalachia interests me. I’ve also watch several interviews of people in Appalachia. I think it’s their genuineness and love of family that draws me. In some ways it reminds of my upbringing in rural Michigan.
I'm so glad you're enjoying our videos!
I always say "Those are my people" about Christians
All of my people are Christian. Not all Christians are my people.
Watching this was almost like looking at some of my old photos and bringing back memories, how I miss those days. Loved it.
I was looking for "My People" among "Your People".
But Sadly, didn't see them.
Yes, if we could only go back one time! God Bless Y'all.
Wonderful. Beautiful song & voices. I loved the old photos as they reminded me of my late husband's family photos. Thank you.
Tipper, I cannot adequately express how much I thoroughly enjoyed this video compilation. The old black and white vintage photos of your people, accompanied by your Daddy's delightful song, really touch the heartstrings. Then hearing your nostalgic remembrances of family and that inner yearning to go back for just one more day to way back when, mirrors my sentiments precisely. THANK-YOU for sharing. Treasured memories are the best souvenirs.
Looks and sounds just like our old family reunions♥️everyone taking the time to share meals and enjoy the stories of when and where stuff happened and who did what…🌞🌼♥️🙋♀️‼️🥰🤗. Bittersweet…and the photos!!!Best part!!
I and my brother live on the same property together, I where my uncle raised me up alot of weekend's with my cousin and brother down the hill where my great grandma lived and my parents up by the road in mama & papa's house, been here since 43 and I have been told I'll get the albums where a many of black white pictures of my family or as you say my people's. I know all my uncle's played music and I wanted to as well, even a few years ago studied tab and went into guitar center and bought a electric jackson with twin humbuckers and tried for awhile but other needs for money ruined that. life happens 🥲
Anyway I don't know why but I feel like with the right person and guided direction & writing a book could bring you great joy in sharing all the things about you and your people's! God bless Mrs tipper, much love from the Ouachita mountains of western Arkansas 👋♥️✝️🇺🇲 thank you for sharing!
Thank you Rowdy! I appreciate your encouraging words 😀
I have a dear friend that lives in summers county west Virginia. Love your show. Enjoy seeing a simpler way of life. God fearing. God bless your family
So glad you enjoy our videos 😀
I absolutely adore this ❤️ A better time I’m thinking. Thank you so much for sharing ❤️ God Bless ❤️🙏🏼❤️
Glad you enjoyed it Kat 😀
Your photos of your people, I saw so many people who's faces looked like you and your family you've shown us. It's such an honor to be considered one of your people. But even before I started listening to you, Appalachia called me. And I went and wandered the woods and hollers every chance I got. And I'm a Gulf coast girl. It just all seems so familiar. Maybe I was there before, in another life. We say What is remembered, lives. We carry the memories forward. And we are lucky enough to live in a time now, where we have technology to help pass those memories. I'll light a candle for Pap.
My family people are Morgans and Broomes. The people I grew up with and knew in the Flat Creek community of Lancaster County, South Carolina are also my people, Thank you for this video; it makes you think about who you are and who your people are. I also enjoyed the song.
Dennis Morgan
Thank you Dennis-I hope you are having a good week 😀
Beautiful people and Beautiful song! People don’t visit like they used too! Have a lot of memories of my parents taking us to visit their friends on Saturday evening. Sitting on the front porch watching cars go by at my grandmas, she lived on a highway. Kids today have no idea what they are missing! They need to put the electronics down and look around and listen! Thanks for Sharing! You are a Blessing!
Glad you enjoyed it Deedra 😀
I relate. At almost 68 I'm loosing my people. I miss them and I know how you feel.
Your videos are great. Truly Americana. My Mother's people are from Southern Missouri, with roots in South Carolina and Ooltewah, TN. So much of the words and speech patterns that you speak of remained with my family and are familiar to me. My Mother was one of eight siblings and were a close, loving family. Gospel music was an integral part of family life. Thank you.
So many things we did not take time to appreciate when we were young. When you get older you realize what wonder times they were and how wonderful the people were. I have a great life but I too would like to be able to go back for a while.
Similar pictures of my people were taken with alot of same backdrops. My dad has been gone quite a few years. His birthday was this week. So this video was especially timely for me. Thank you Tipper.
This song was a blessing to me🕊. I love it!💖 Wish I had it on a CD!!💿 I just wanted to listen to it over & over again!!🎶 Thanks for sharing this song as well as your photos & family history.👨👩👧👦👨👩👧👨👩👧👧 May God bless you much!🙏
I like looking at old photos, nice people, old cars in background. Thanks for sharing.
I love old photos even if they're of folks who aren't my people. I always wonder what they were thinking-what was happening in their lives.
I feel your longing for your family. I am the Matriarch now with everyone older than me gone and I’m only 61. When I look back I’m Thankful for the beautiful memories they all left me. When I look at old photos I feel honored to have known each of them. If not for them none of us would be. I think as we age we finally have time to look back and appreciate what we had all the more. Hugs
Oh yes Tipper, I have those feelings and longings, to see my Dad, Mom,Friends, and all MY PEOPLE,that's gone on to be with our Lord.What helps me to deal with these feelings, is the lively hope and assurance that I'll see them again someday. Tipper, You and your Your Family, feel like MY PEOPLE TOO.Pap's song sure Blessed my heart. Thank You Tipper Pressley 🙂.
You're so welcome Donald 😀
You said it well. Hope to see my people too up yonder in glory land.
God bless,,,
@@duaneholcomb8408 That will be a Great Reunion Day
@@donaldwells2102 you bet it will brother. And will all be one big family. All our people will be gathererd to gether. In glory land. Hope to meet you there one day,,,
@@duaneholcomb8408 God Bless You Brother!!🙂
“I’ll be home”. What a beautiful song ! Thank you for sharing your memories😊. Be well🥰
This was an awesome video, I loved the song and old pictures…Precious Memories…..that’s how I feel about it….really tugged at my heart and I’m thankful for the memories I have of loved ones that have passed on, but, I do cherish those memories!! It seems that most of your videos always get me to thinking back on Precious Memories….by the way, I love the hymn Precious Memories….
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I love your channel and your family. I live in Morristown Tennessee.not to far away. My family called my grandmother and her husband Granny and Pap . I've shown my mother your channel she loves it.My family always called there family my people. Now I do also thank you so much for sharing have a great day 🙂
Very lovely song. I often yearn for my Grandad's old homestead in Edmond WV. The song and the pictures were very touching. Several of the men looked like they could be kin to my father!
Just cried my eyes out
Absolutely, heartwarming montage of family history! I am Canadian with a French background. This video will prompt anyone to think about their people. It made me think about my 66 years on the planet with my people, near far. Thank you for this. Your stories will become a huge part of your family’s heritage. What better way to document then with a digital footprint. Your children can carry this through generations to come.
I loved that song, and all the pictures
But the baptizings like that, sure brought back lots of great memories. I understand that either way is fine but for me, it's sad to think how lots of churches don't do it that way anymore.
GOD BLESS
I envy you and people like you who have had generations of family around for years. I was born and raised about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio. My immediate family were not ones to go many places. My dad had one brother and my mom had no siblings. I never knew my grandparents on either side of my family. We were not much to talk, so I didn't really know my parents. That's just how it was. My dad died when I wad 15... and I never once just sat and talked with him, ya know. My mom was the same way. It's like folks didn't know how to have a conversation about anything. There were orders given for chores... and the like, but no "What do think about this dad?". I missed out on that kind of thing. My sisters (3) are the same. They make little short comments, but no conversations about anything. It always made me hungry for words. Now people say I talk too much. Maybe I'm tryin' to make up for all those years of quiet.
Herb-I'm sorry you lacked conversation and lost your daddy way too early. I'm glad you talk and share on here 😀
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Go ahead and recollect Herb. We love to listen! I know I do.
I worked for many years in a genealogy library, helping people find their family history. This is a story I have heard countless times, how their family never talked about the past.
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My first thought is... why? Why does that happen? What made that a part of a family's life? For me, the one thing I've had trouble with all my life... is unanswered questions... and sometimes no one to ask.
This reminds me so much my family I say my people all the time, my people been here since the Mayflower and moved south and west and most are in the Carolina's, Kentucky and Tennessee I'm very proud of my family the good and bad but there my family my people