The First Appalachians
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- The First Appalachians were Scotch Irish and arrived in Appalachia with their love for God, Guns, and Liquor. These Appalachians survived in the Appalachian Mountains because of their Appalachian customs, traditions, and help from nature. The Chestnut tree, moonshine and the primitive baptist church were vital to their survival. The Appalachian Storyteller presents The First Appalachians #thefirstappalachians #appalachia #appalachian #appalachianmountains #theappalachianstoryteller #peopleofappalachia #appalachianhistory
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LoL I already did those 😜🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😜
I will pass it on but not much control for somethings can not be done through the cell phone yah see
@@desirreemarlenaclonch7593 Thank you my friend
The 1790 - 1810 census states the majority of settlers to the Appalachians were English, followed by Scottish, some households state English and Scottish, 10 Welsh households, 8 German household, 1 French, No Irish, the term Scots/Irish is a bad term for the English and Scottish planters that went via Northern Ireland, most went from Northern England and lowland Scotland, a sizeable group went from Suffolk/Norfolk and the west country, that's where the accent comes from, English man Daniel Boone cut his way through the wilderness, English man Walker built the first log cabin, there's nothing more English than clogging.
@@hetrodoxly1203 thanks for sharing your thoughts
Thank you for creating this wonderful Video. I love seeing real History in story form complete with real photographs!!!
I'm so blessed to be a part of this. I enjoyed this so much that there was no place like home. Absolutely love this.
thank you!
I am so proud of our history. I’m from very southwestern WV. We “ hillbillies “ usually get a bad rap. We come from strong, smart and self resilient ancestors. We were so isolated for so long that we had to be strong and self sufficient. Independent! Especially after the civil war, no schools for generations. Still we stand proud, we made it. Love this and thank you!
Indeed- the people of Appalachia are a strong proud people
I’m from Logan county myself
I miss W Virginia. Moved to CT at 13 and have always wanted to go back. A damn shame what drugs have done to that special place.
Lucas? From SW WV? Yup, we are related👍
Im from Northern Ireland, the home of the ulster scots. Very interesting to see how many of my people went to live in such a rugged place. Hard people living in a hard land. The ulster scots here today still have the same values, god fearing, family driven and conservative views.
Im scots/Irish and live in Bristol,TN. A lot of the old ways are still practiced here,and I would not want to live any place else in the United States!!! For real!
Amen
My family, the Blaylocks, followed the cotton down through Mississippi and then across to Arkansas as share croppers. I now live in the Ozark Mountain region. Even after all of the generations, the education, and modernization, our attitudes remain unchanged. Amazing.
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Being a proud Australian of Irish/Scottish n Aboriginal blood, I've always found it interesting how our accents now are nothing like those who first settled places like the Appalachian's n parts of Australia.
Very interesting
That's because it's a mix of accents over time. In the Appalachians we had many different cultures living there and how things like bluegrass music came about. It's very similar to old Irish music with mix of different instruments from other areas or countries.
Immigrants become locals. Early convicts and soldiers were Londoners and I guess teachers were too. Aussies have a variety of London accent. My great grandfather was a London soldier. His medical record shows VD, which I guess didn't help his family. Scots and Irish from the countryside hopefully had less city diseases. Interestingly, Hitler mentions VD being a big problem in his book ' Mein Kampf'. And no, I'm not a Nazi.
Cjod33. I am Australian too and have the same heritage I think that anyone whose ancestors have been here since the beginning have some aboriginal heritage even if it is hidden. I haven’t been able to find it in records but know my grandfather had a grandparent who was indigenous. My dna came back as almost 90 percent Irish although two of my children look aboriginal. But it was explained to me that our dna can Conley express so much. Going back 13 generations we have one million grandparents
@@patriciafisher1170 wow! 1 million?
Fabulous! Just stumbled upon this channel. One teeny bone to pick, Scottish men knew all about fighting, no Native taught that. The Scot’s melted up into the Highlands or vanished to islands yet could reappear at Will and were fearsome alone or in force.
thanks for sharing and welcome to the channel!
I have always considered Scots to be the originators of the Rebel Yell.
Hello from Brisbane Australia ~ I love the Appalachian history everything is beautiful
Thank you Nicole ❤️
Count Melbourne in as well. Incredibly rich history.
I have been visiting these areas and meeting mountain folk for around 15 years. I cherish all that I have learned. Still interested in learning more.
I can trace my people in Jackson and Macon, counties North Carolina in the Smokies from the middle of the 1700's so I guess my ancestors were the first Appalachians my ancestors were Scotch Irish, Irish, German, Dutch, Cherokee, Welch and whatever jumped in the pasture in the old days when no one was looking. life was hard in the smoky mountains; you eat anything that didn't eat you first we either made liquor or dug ginseng or put out pulp wood or acid wood or logs or you starved, you made your own or did without, but that was the way of life. Born in Tuckasegee on Cullowhee Mountain North Carolina 1939
words couldnt have painted a picture better than what you said. bravo
My dad was one if 9 kids raised in Appalachia. In the mountains if NC. I know I am Cherokee with some scots irish. I am also a direct descendent of Daniel Boone. He is in my family tree.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this
Loved this story I lived in the Appalachian for awhile I think they call where I live now Appalachian
Thank you ma’am, God bless
Talking about hard working women, my husbands mamaw said she had her 4th child one day and was back in the field picking cotton the next. Plus I can’t imagine having babies at home. My 2nd daughter was born naturally no drugs but it wasn’t by choice. She decided to get here in an hour and a half. I can’t imagine having them at home with nothing. My great great grandma was that way we well. She raised 11 kids mostly by herself because her husband was a drunk and finally killed himself by drinking wood grain alcohol. She never had much but she had a huge garden and orchard. They never went hungry she said. I had her till I was 15. I wish I’d learned more from her. Those older women were tough as nails!
Thank you for sharing her story ❤️
These are my ancestors, dad (daddy) told me when he was 8 he would shinny up trees because like this man said, the canopy would muffle sound, and look, smell , listen for cars or trucks to signal the boys making the mash. They'd get a little egg money for mom. Died last yr at 92.
great memories of a time gone by
Love this channel. It’s great using my imagination again…
Appalachian Storyteller, may I have the song name @5:50?
I love all of your videos. Very informative 👏 👌
Thank you Sara
Somebody get this guy a glass of water!
Seriously tho... great content.
Haha!
Your aerial shots are great.
Thanks so much! I travel all over Appalachia filming with my drone
I loved that!
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I've seen the Skeltons of the chestnut trees. Some still dot the deeper woods. My mother told me that the last of the died when she was a child. She talked about the.things they used to make from the nuts and wood.
wow! Thanks for sharing that!
A question ..... The song that is played at roughly 15:50, What is the name of it and do you have any idea where I can find it? I figured out a bit of it from the video. I remember hearing a similar (maybe the same) song from my childhood. I was raised in a Southern Baptist Church in the hills of Appalachia and my dad was one of those ministers who couldn't read. Thanks
I have the song, ill look it up when im back home
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Thank you. I tried google but didn't have any luck.
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So nice
Thank you friend
thank you for your story telling. these people need to get busy and reintroduce the Chestnut trees back to their lands and the mountains. there are treatments for the asian fungus these days.
YES! this is the most important takeaway from this story. What a tragic event!
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Excellent video! I’m proud of my people that came before me .
Amen me too
Where I am from, “pole cat” is another name for a skunk, not the European species of pole cat pictured in the video. How about my fellow Appalachians? Did you use pole cat as another word for skunk?
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Hello from an Ulster Scot (what you call Scotch/Irish) whose ancestors stayed in Northern Ireland and who stumbled on this video by accident. Just a little example of shared roots separated by centuries and thousands of miles. My wife's maiden name is an uncommon old Scots surname and when her brother did a genealogy search he found out there are only 2 areas on the planet where the surname is found in any numbers. Here in the northern part of County Down and in Eastern Tennessee but not in Scotland. Seems that the entire original family migrated to Ulster from Scotland in the early 1600s and then half of them made the further leap across the pond a century or so later.
I am always amazed at how far these videos travel and the stories that folks like yourself share. Thanks so much for your story, I enjoyed reading it very much
Wow!
What's the name?
Hello, from Texas. I had forefathers that came over from the Isle of Man who landed in North Carolina, and Tennessee. What is the name of your family?
@@WhispersFromTheDark Thanks for the reply but I'd rather not say the name openly online. By the way I can see the Isle of Man from the top of the hill my home is on most days it's not raining. Though it usually is.😁
My great grandma was scot Irish from Tennessee and came to Texas after the Civil War on a covered wagon. Her married name was Steele and the women were strong and proud. I have her cast iron boiling pot and I proudly can hunt, fish, and can fruits. I’m damn proud to continue the strong tradition.
Well said
I'm glad you have the pot from grandma
My granny got married around 1900 and they walked down to the 5&10 store and bought a pot. On the bottom of the pot has the price and date. Before she died she gave me that pot and I still have it. One of my prized possessions. God rest her soul. 😢. Peace and Love
That sounds so cool ❣️💯
I'd love to have something that special from my ancestors.
That's funny. A covered wagon? After the Civil War? Some one blew smoke up your butt! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I am sitting in my Scottish home watching this and had no idea of this history. Thank you, that was so good.
Thanks 🙏
Likewise, watching from Scotland. Great channel and info. Keep it up 👍
The Highland games are at Grandfather MTN. Was annual until Covid.
@Opal Allen ❤
This is just a glorified story. Do your research and you will get an in-depth story of the horrible and disgusting things that happened.
My grandmother, my Dad's mom had 16. She was born in 1893 here in southern WV. She married at 14 and had her first at 15. In 1908. She had 14 straight boys! Then finally a daughter in 1930. Then my Dad, the last, in 1933. She had one set of twins. 15 pregnancies over a 25 year span. That's over 11 years of her life pregnant! They farmed and made liquor for a living. Some of the boys stole a few of her chickens to boil over a campfire while they drank one night. She offered them a choice of jail or a beating at her hands! She was in her 50s by then. They all opted for a beating, even though some of them were crying! (grown men!) She died at 78 when I was 13. What a woman! They literally don't make people, not just women, like this anymore. And that's why our country is collapsing. A generation of "IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!" self entitled wimps!
That’s a hell of a woman- I enjoyed reading that!
I’m from southern West Virginia.❤️
@@SJ-ni6iy We are in McDowell County but only about a mile from the Wyoming County line just off of Rt 16. Browns Creek. My family has been here at least 170 years according to what I've learned on Ancestry. But I think much longer. My fourth great grandfather received a land grant in 1858 from the governor of Va for 200 acres that crosses from the head of this creek into the head of Pinnacle Creek in Wyoming County. The hand written document mentions certain trees as boundary markers! Chestnut oaks, Sycamores, etc.
@@bradlane3662 I’m from Raleigh County but it’s near the Boone County line. I’m from where the Upper Big Branch Mining disaster happened, that’s my community. My family has traced relatives, that have been here before the Civil War.
@@SJ-ni6iy I know your home area very well. For the last 34 years of my working life I drove a delivery truck all over southern WV and southwest VA. Including Boone and Raleigh Counties. Our warehouse was actually in Beckley for the last 15 years of that time. I delivered to accounts in Madison and Danville.
If kids today had to live like this, then they would have respect, and appreciate what they have today
well said my friend
"Good men, who were patient, calm, and reserved... Were also men who were courageous, prompt, and thorough." That's such a good line, man!
Thank you for that!
Yes, we have men who are fickle, impulsive, and selfish today, not with an ounce of integrity in them, and do not know when to stand for something righteous
@@TheChadPad what men are you talking about? All the veterans I've met are calm, patient, mature, and don't wanna go back. Some do, but they love killing. That's a thing. Most people don't have that.
@@Nannada1212 Some young people of my generation. I am 28
@@TheChadPad I'm 31. I knew we were from the same time.
My grandpa told me how devastating it was when all the chestnut trees died. He said there was such bountiful food for people and animals that came from the trees. He said they were as thick as the hickory trees in the Appalachian hills. The ground would be covered in chestnuts like you can find hickory nuts and acorns now. He said that was one of the biggest losses in his entire life. It changed life forever in the mountains.
Thank you for that beautiful testimony of your grandfather
How did the trees die?
@@cac2821 there was a blight introduced to North America in the early 1900s believed to have came from Asia. It attacked the Eastern Chestnut, and would damage the trunk and the bark near the ground, causing the trees to die. Interestingly, the roots of these huge trees lived for many years, and some of the root systems are still alive today, and will put up sprouts. These trees grow to three or four inches in diameter, then die from the blight. They have found one Eastern Chestnut tree in Talladega county Alabama that is over 12 inchrs in diameter that is believed to have come from some of that old rootstock. The tree is alive, healthy, and has started bearing chestnuts. Biologists are studying trees like this one, as well as if you more Eastern chestnuts that have somehow survived. The total number of trees that have survived is less than 25 that are large enough to bear fruit.
@@cac2821 I would encourage you to look up the Eastern Chestnut. You can find a lot of information online about the demise of this species. The Eastern Chestnut made up 25 to 35% of all the timber in the Appalachian mountains before 1900. Literally tons of chestnuts that were rich in protein or available for wildlife, as well as for people to eat. They were very nutritious, and at times poor mountain people would actually live off eating these chestnuts when they did not have anything else to eat.
@@terrylyons3577 thank you for explaining it to me. That’s devastating
I’m 30 years old and it’s crazy to me how little changed by the time I was a kid. Most of these traditions, teachings, and preaching we’re still that way so I was probably 15 years old. We didn’t get pavement down my holler till I was a teenager. It breaks my heart to see how much things have changed so fast for my community. That being said I don’t agree with preachers drinking.
Indeed, it’s slipping away from us
Yup, the usa is more third world than they like you to think.
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Amen
Yeah, the devil's water!
I watch another channel called celebrating Appalachia,It’s Tipper Pressley and she’s doing the same,she is educating the world about the culture of Appalachia and her family is participating in this journey with her!Amazing people doing amazing work! I want to Ty also!
yup, her and her daughters (Presley girls) are doing a great job!
I am from Brazil ✝️🇧🇷✌️
I found this very fascinating, in a way it is kind of like the Amazon with the honest and isolated lives the people of Appalachia live
That’s cool, i never thought about that
It's just a glorified story. They live a horrible incestual life. Fathers and Brothers raping their daughters/sister while the mother listen in the same room.
@@kenihow the story of the people of the Amazon is a tragic one, too. They are a people ignorant of the wonders of the civilised world and live in a dark violence, untouched by the light of Christ and civilisation.
There were a lot of secrets too. Isolation bred some unhealthy generational traumas. May we all learn and heal.
@@VivaCristoRei9 As in some urban areas.
I have a high respect for the folks of Appalachian. I enjoy hearing their stories.
Yes ma'am, so do I. There are plenty of their stories on this channel. I hope you enjoy my friend
Yes, me too. Amazingly strong people that is for sure.
People believe anything they hear on the internet
@@TheAppalachianStorytellerborn and raised here in the Smokies except for my Army Time and our culture is under attack from these Florida Alabama etc rich ppl bought up our land where we locals can't afford it. Change our laws etc.
@Keni How being from the appalachian mountains 99.9% of these are very real and true.
I am happy to be of Scotch-Irish stock. Thank you for this beautiful video.
Of course my friend
German settlers from PA who migrated by way of the Shenandoah Valley into VA were also integral to the culture. I'm of strong German-Irish descent from SW VA. It's a unique culture and sadly, a dying one. I'm so glad to have been part of it. Those people were amazing.
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My great grandfather once owned land I the Shenandoah valley,then to Pocahontas Co.,riders gap,then cross lanes,wv,family graves in VA. And wv.some of the first there besides the indians.i an proud that I inherited these bloodlines.
Yup, from the Rhineland to NewJersey then Pennsylvania, Virginia through the Cumberland Gap.
I'm Irish-German too. I agree ❤
There were a few. Not many. I live in the ridgeline parts and only 2% of my ancestry is German. 96% came by way of Britain.
I love this channel. The story of the chestnut tree, which is one I've heard before, is one of the saddest stories around. If people don't learn from history's mistakes, our planet will one day soon not be fit for an old country boy like myself. Keep up the awesome story, sir.
Indeed, I have to admit, It broke my heart to tell the story of the Chestnut, one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Earth.
I'm only 60 years old, and already I hardly recognize where I grew up. It saddens me down to my bones.
@@davids6533 the world is changing so fast, at warp speed
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller has no one tried to replant the chestnut trees now
@@slidenapps well, scientists are currently crossbreeding the asian chestnut (which has resistance to the fungus) with American Chestnut (which produces superior wood) to create a species that would essentially be about 95% American Chestnut. Hopefully, they succeed.
I'm so proud to be from Appalachia! This was a beautiful story of our history...
My uncle in S.E. Kentucky had a big farm and every summer he would have a "tent revival" where folks would travel and camp for a week in the campground he set up with nice outhouses and running water...we even set up a concession stand with Pepsi and some candy bars and chips....He even had electricity run for lights. Preachers would come from other places to preach a night or two and then someone else would come in to preach...not Baptist, they were from the Christian Church..... this was in the early '60s... great memories! Would you have any stories about these revivals?
Thanks JD, for keeping our great heritage alive 🤗❤️
I actually do remember and have things to share about these revivals. I almost covered it in this video since it was closely related. Im sure ill post something soon :)
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I look forward to it! Thanks 🤗
@@KathysTube yes ma'am, stay tuned
Please explain what a Christian Church is as opposed to a Baptist. I am confused by that statement.
@@blumobean Since I've only visited Baptist churches, I can't really explain the difference... from what I know, not that much...I think there are more "rules" in Baptist but..? I'm sure you could find out from doing a search online...btw, there are differences within the Baptist churches too 🤗❤️
My family came to East Tennessee before it was Tennesse. Hardy folks there for sure. However there were lots of people living there for thousands years before every seeing a white person.
Indeed, you are completely right 💯
I love this video. I am Scottish on daddy's side and Presbyterian. On moma's side Cherokee and Southern Baptist and SDA. Since my dog Spooner died 3 months ago today I have been smitten with intense grief. Spoon was the best friend I ever had! Well, your videos are helping me to find myself again. Thank you!
Thank you Traci
ur dog died dude
Get another dog soon as possible they are your best friend. Thay will not use you like people do. Am I right.
@@riffle8883 Right , treat them right and you get forever love .... and they are out there waiting for a life with a decent person ..
I am proud to be a descendant of these strong, God fearing Scott-Irish people! Thank you Lord for the blessing!
strong bloodlines my friend
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller AMEN Brother!
@@Big88Country amen
I'm from Ulster Northern Ireland Carrickfergus
@@spaghetti_legs . I also hail from Norn Iron in Co, Down
I live in the west NC mountains and have roots in this heritage. Enjoyed the video. One quibble-there was a pictured titled “polecat”. It looked like a ferret. Here, a polecat is a skunk.
Yup, good catch
I got a kick out of that as well.
Had a place at the Tellico head waters the Tellico was about 8/10 inches wide still caught some trout then the Yankees came I left
Pole cats and skunks are two different things. There are pole cars and there are skunks. Avoid both at all costs! 😂
One way to tell the difference is that a pole cat has one solid stripe down and that’s how it got the name pole cat.
Indeed. There are several more inaccuracies by this uneducated person.
TAS, You talking about the woman having a baby while picking berries. My great mammaw was out in the fields helping great pappaw plow the fields when she went into labor. She went back to the cabin, delivered the baby on her own, cleaned it, fed it, wrapped it in blankets and set it on the front porch and went right back into the field. She would listen for the baby to cry then tend to it. One tough woman.
That baby was born in 1909 and he passed in 1966. Great mammaw buried one son and two husbands. When asked why she never remarried she would always say in her Kentucky draw " Well they just kept dyin on me and after 2 did not see a reason to go for number 3."
That’s a heck of a story!
Mind ovr matter 💪🏽 🙏🏽
@@incognitonegress3453, You go pick a fight with her. I know who my money is on. LOL
I felt like crying when you spoke of the chestnut tree's destruction.
It’s one of great tragedy’s in the history of planter earth
A guy on Vermont RUclipsr Gold Shaw Farms attempting to grow chestnuts.
@@eunicestone838 there are lots of folks trying to alter their genetic makeup to become resistant to the asian fungus. Even if successful, it will take 10,000 years for them to dominate the Appalachian Mountain tops like they once did.
My father's people were some of the first settlers to Pike Co KY, and his mothers side were also early settlers there. I always enjoy videos and stories of Appalachia people, it makes me feel closer to my origins.
Thank you for sharing my friend
My daughter is married to a Mccoy. He's from pike County Kentucky!
Any chance they were of the Leslie/Lesley clan? That would be my dad's family, back a few generations, first permanent European settlers of the Big Sandy Valley.
The 1790 - 1810 census states the majority of settlers to the Appalachians were English, followed by Scottish, some households state English and Scottish, 10 Welsh households, 8 German household, 1 French, No Irish, the term Scots/Irish is a bad term for the English and Scottish planters that went via Northern Ireland, most went from Northern England and lowland Scotland, a sizeable group went from Suffolk/Norfolk and the west country, that's where the accent comes from, English man Daniel Boone cut his way through the wilderness, English man Walker built the first log cabin, there's nothing more English than clogging.
That is very interesting. My family are all English Scots and Welsh and I live in the UK.My parents both took the ancestry DNA test and were surprised at the large number of American matches,,many now in this region.I have noticed English ancestry seems more forgotten than Irish or Scots or Italian,yet is so prevalent in Americans.
Thanks for sharing
@@robertsmith5970 There's a couple of reasons for this, 1 the English never added anything to 'American' ie Afro American, Irish American, just called themselves American, 2 Scots/ Irish a bad term used to describe people who went to the Appalachians via Northern Ireland, they were a mixture of English and Lowland Scots (Anglo Saxons) who's family ties were on both sides of the border, most Americans will tell you Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the USA was Scots/Irish, he went to America via northern Ireland but his family came from Eccleston, Lancashire, England, the culture is a very English one, clogging started in the mill towns of northern England, one of the best Chroniclers of Appalachian culture was Bascom Lunsford his family not only went from England they helped Charles 11 escape.
Not only were the English settlers in the majority it was estimated that 83% of the surnames of the settlers were of English origin in 1790, very few Scots or Irish ones. And yet so many commenters express pride in their Scots Irishness ad nauseum. I've also noticed many surnames, much more numerous in the north of England, are wrongly quoted as being Scottish. One of the most ludicrous I can remember is "Which part of Ireland does the Dawson clan come from." This is a northern English name along with Jackson, Simpson, Watson, Wilson, Dixon, Walker, etc. although of course they are also found north of the border.
@@mustelidpeter Good points.
I enjoyed this video very much.I have lived in west Virginia all my life and have and still do know people much like what Ive seen in this video..Times have changed..but a way of life is taught and still remains in some families and places.we can still learn from them and be better off for it ..Thanks for the video.
Indeed- thanks for watching and sharing
With todays crazy stuff happening..we would survive knowing all the old ways..just think we ave abit of an advantage with better equipment or supplies..
Are there not lots of families who have handicapped children because of the sexual intercourse of brothers and sisters or parents and own children ?
The results are hidden in little cabins and nobody gets ever knowledge of these
hobbies! And the healthy children never learn anything than making a sort of signature.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful video, I love this channel ❤ much love and respect to you all from Ireland 🇮🇪 🌻 ❤
Thank you my friend, greetings from East Tennessee
My family settled in French indian territory in what is now eastern kentucky three brothers moved across cumberland gap. Visted the area, once the locals learned who I was it was like the boys never left. Heard stories from my great grand dad of his childhood. Hard times hard men.
Indeed, hard times - hard men
Sorry to say this but The American Indians were the first "Appalachians"
Of course they were
The American Chestnut is making a comeback either native trees are growing resistant to the fungus or the trees I've seen are hybrids but finally they are showing up in the cherokee and Nantahala forests hopefully they'll get the chance to grow to their full potential
fingers crossed!
I have a chestnut tree in my yard in the NC Smoky Mountains. We gather chestnuts from it every year and leave some for the bears.
Love your stories of Appalachia. Keep up the wonderful history lessons.
Thank you my friend :)
Proud of my Appalachian American roots! I see a picture of one of my ancestors in this video that I didn't know was public. I have that same & similar pics in old family albums, and have seen copies of it in museums/displays in Tennessee Appalachia.
Why would anyone be fearing of any type of god? Then why worship something evil?
Good point.
It originally meant to respect Him but also fear his wrath against evil. If God says he is love, of course he is going to hate evil, and if you’re evil, you’re right to be nervous
My dad's family are from Western NC. I assumed for years we were Scotch-Irish. My grandmother was even one of the last Scots-Gaelic speakers in NC. But...as I did more family research, I found many Swiss, German, and Austrian ancestors that settled in Western NC and intermarried with my family, some Quakers --- dating back to before the Revolutionary War. As well as a branch of the family that migrated from the Charles City/Williamsburg VA, the Harrison family! What a mixture!!
What a rich family history, thanks for sharing my friend
Lots of Germans settled along with scots and Irish up in them western nc and east tennessee hillsides by the mid to late 1700's. I have plenty bloodlines from them groups of immigrants.
It is said that in Southern Appalachia the Germans built barns, the English built churches, and the Scots Irish built whiskey stills.
My parents have a Beautiful chestnut tree in hilly Southern Ohio, it's always filled with chestnuts, but it's not like the huge ones described here, love the hill country and my mountains!
Thanks for sharing my friend, I’d love some chestnuts
A lot of them need fertilizer. They need a pot of phosphorus and nitrogen.
Ohio is trash yank state
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the "First" Appalachians were Native Americans.
of course they were, unless, you consider that the first Americans actually walked across a land bridge from Europe across Russia into Alaska and down into America and being renamed Native Americans.
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Yes and they traded it away for beads, trinkets, liquor, muskets, powder, iron tools and blades etc.. Then they got mad and tried to take it back by savagery. "Indian giver" We all know how the story goes. They were at war with each other for centuries before that.
My great great grandparents were Cherokee
Many of us are Native still in Appalachia from either 1. Assimilating & never leaving 2. Being forced out on the great walk but then returning.
For example, I'm Melungeon. My multicultural family is Eastern European Romani, Native/Indigenous (Shawnee, Eastern Cherokee, Choctaw), Irish Traveller, Jewish, & African.
@@RomaniScientist some never left
An Eastern Tennessee/Western Carolina mountain girl here. I've been enjoying your videos, love the storytelling & pics! I know one thing for certain, these old mountains become a part of your soul. I had to move away to the Midwest for a few years when my mom remarried, but everytime I came back home I just felt whole again, down to my bones. As soon as I was old enough to be on my own, I headed back down to be cradled by these mountains. I can never stray for too long.
Well said my friend. I feel the same
I'm here because my ancestor was one of the first Apalachans, moving west of the "Fall Line" to Allen's Creek Va. in the 1720's. Our Clan of Meeks' and Hoppers would eventually spread across the country, to Georgia, Tennessee, and Tipah Mississippi, with our branch finally landing in Texas in the 1850's.
Wow!
The Appalachian mountains were also settled by English and Germans going by the comments you would think it was only the Ulster Scots who settled the area majority of the people have English surnames ..like Whittaker Ramsey Hatfield
yes indeed
How come the English who made up by far the biggest numbers in the original colonies seem to have been wrote out of this story. It wouldn’t have been possible for the Scots Irish to have populated such a vast area.
You do beautiful work.
You have left out the Indians and later the Melungeon's
that came in 50 years before James.
The mountains curve around and form the Ouachita Mountains
in Arkansas. Some kids would see visitors and run, then peak
out around the corner of the house. The girls would
run and hide under the bed.
Thanks my friend, more to come my friend
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I would like to add
that the people clearing trees in the Ouachitas
often planted turnips as the first crop. I suspect
it was a winter crop.
The "FIRST" Appalachian people...were Indigenous Nations.....Cherokee and others.
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Why do they not plant chestnut trees and make Appalachia whole again?
My ancestors jumped off the ship in 1768 and settled in western Nc . We’ve been here and fought for this country with a passion and by god we still will.
Good people
Yeah and this is how you destroyed local Indians who lived there much longer than you
Proud of destroying what the natives had so as your Sky Fairy cult could stay? Another arrogant usa outlook.
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@@HazelnutEr The Cherokee people that were native to this region were wronged by the Government . However my family came here from the Ulster region of Northern Ireland where they were wronged there and forced to leave . They came here in search of freedom and a better life. When attacked by anyone or anything they would naturally fight back but didn’t come to harm or fight . They had quite enough of it and didn’t want to fight but if called to do their part they would.
Great story, thank you! I'm so proud of my Scots-Irish heritage!
Thank you!
Don't you find it strange that if the so called Scots Irish were the first European Appalachian settlers that they named many of their settlements and townships etc. after places in England. Much more numerous than Scottish or Irish ones. Also many of them have very English surnames. I believe that history has been skewed to hide the English contribution. I once noted that the Englishman Daniel Boone was classed as Scots Irish.
Good points, thanks for sharing your thoughts
I've been told all my life that my heritage is "Cherokee and Irish." This is very common here. I think you are probably right. My last name is Lane. Obviously English but never mentioned. The other three family names are Green, Lester, and the red haired Lockhart's on my Mother's side.
@@bradlane3662 very interesting
@@bradlane3662 Lockhart is a Scots border name but there are many Lockharts south of the border, the others are definitely English. I'm afraid that people from the Appalachians have been brainwashed over the last 50 years into believing that they are mainly of Scots Irish descent thanks to people such as Jim Webb, Grady McWhiney and now Barry Vann who assesses surnames that are vastly more common in England as being Scottish and thus assumes the settler came from Scotland.
@@mustelidpeter That's becoming pretty obvious as I slowly gain knowledge on the subject. Thanks!
I lived in North East Tennessee for about 10 years in the 2000's. Church was an important staple. I remember visiting a lot of churches outside of the one I'd usually go to. My , then, wife's uncle was a preacher, until recently, at a Baptist Church around there. He even had a Gospel group called the Primitive Quartet. Things were very nice around those parts, and everyone heavy in tradition and the culture there. But with the intrusion, or should I say, near invasion, of the unruly, wild and indecent things made their way through. Such as hollywood, radical and hood dispositions crept in. That, tainted the kids, who, before that, upheld in traditional values, family and God. It all changed. On top of that, all the illegal immigrants sent their by obama, the later and recently, by the biden 'minstruation. Everything is being ghetto-ized. Young people are taken by and romanticize about all things ghetto and thug life. It ruins towns and lives. Just saying, and I said it. God Bless, and have a nice day.
Thanks for sharing your story, I enjoyed reading it
You realise Obama deported more illegals than almost any US president. I didn't like him but facts are facts. Yes the Ghetto Kartrashians permeated lots of places. Moonshiners were considered thugs too.
I grew up in the Eastern KY mountains, I visit usually a couple of times each year. Your comment is virtually a direct quote of mine when I describe the pure pollution which has been dumped upon the people, and culture of the Appalachian mountains by the hellish leftist media, and Hollyweird in its many forms. It's a sad outcome..
@@hauntedmoodylady well said
@@hauntedmoodylady The left is doing this same thing to my home here in rural Alberta, Canada. The Trudeau government is flooding every corner of our country with immigrants who don't even come close to sharing any of the same values and morals that made life safe and good here
Twice I have been to Cade’s Cove and the Cling-man’s Dome , it is truly God’s county , I really appreciate the great Smoky Mountains!
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Greetings from the UK! I love your channel and your voice is so warm and resonant for these wonderful stories - thank you.
Thank you friend!
Great video. I love these people. To hell with any racist who mocks hillbillies.
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I'm of Scots decent on both my mum an dad's side of family tree! So I'm ever so grateful to have found this! Thank you so much for sharing!
Wonderful!
People around the World that live in such environment’s in isolation from the rest of the World develop their own cultural lifestyle’s.
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I not sure you will read this old story teller of the mountain, so I will start by saying God love you brother, these mountains you talk about is so apart of me I can still smell it’s sweet fragrance when I was running thru them as a kid. Thank you my friend., sure miss them and my people.
Thank you for your poetic comment, that means a lot to me.
The University of North Carolina has done a lot to see that one day the Chestnut tree returns to the mountains. They have tried hybrid trees with a resistance to the blight. Over to the west, a few chestnut groves have been found which due to their protected locations, never got the blight and the most promising discovery is that the chestnut blight kill the trunk not the roots and a tree that once was thought dead is still alive sending up shoots that survive until they reach about 5 feet then the shoot dies. Im hoping that one day that problem will be solved. But it won't show in my lifetime. I'm too old.
Well said
I have a chestnut tree in my yard in the NC Smoky Mountains.
I had heard they were doing something along those lines. I'll be buried deep in those hills by the time they'll see how it goes.
My ENTIRE family on maternal side is from here W NC, TN, GA. 1700’s traced back to. Oh the stories! My Mama is 92 I’m savoring them one by one I recorded some. I’m still young (long story I was a surprise) and hope stories these last more generations…my Grandpa helped build Chimney Rock, NC. Crazy!
I enjoyed reading your story
My Cherokee Ancestors were here long before, settler's ever were
Indeed- so we’re mine
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller is it possible for us to honor them being integrated into the way of life now as we know it, here's a movie for some of it, The Last Sineater , it is the store of how the song / nursery rhyme
One little, Two little, Three little Indian's, came about having to count the slaughter/massacred people of every native first nation's in the USA
The United States of Assassination
Get a DNA test. I'm fairly sure you have no Cherokee. Just be proud of your actual ancestors, and stop putting them down in favor of others. Yours were strong and hard working too. Don't give into the general racial animus pushed by the institutions.
@@justwannagrill8548 sorry for you to say my grandparents told me so and I have a grandmother picture she is of TsaChoohee clan the word above means Bird clan , you will be blocked from my RUclips Channel viewing have a great life bashing others for your pleasure
@@desirreemarlenaclonch7593 your view of history is very skewed, and you show intellectual immaturity by “blocking” someone who disagrees with your statement.
The story of the Irish/Scottish Gaels (my ancestors) is almost cut and paste the same story of the Native Americans. Both were removed from their homeland and war was waged on both cultures. Both experienced genocide. Every country/culture has committed atrocities against other cultures, the Cherokee did this to other tribes as well. It’s literally the history of humankind.
And your claim of being a “Cherokee” will naturally be scrutinized. Many people, like you, have been told they’re Cherokee because of some random ancestor down the line who supposedly was. Actual Cherokees maintain a certain genetic percentage of Cherokee blood, and it’s fairly high. The actual Cherokee people make this minimum percentage a requirement to be identified as a person of Cherokee descent, and to be a part of the tribe. What is your percentage of Cherokee blood?
i have just discovered this channel and it is already one of my favorites. I have lived in NC my whole life and love this state!
Thank you my friend! Welcome home 💜
So interesting as I have recently researched my genealogy and found that I am more Irish than Scottish. My family surname of my great-grandfather was McRandles and is a surname that was common from what I understand in Northern Ireland. At some point it was changed to just Randles. Grew up in Knoxville and moved back to this area after retiring. I hike in the Smokies frequently, both TN and NC side. One of my favorite things is walking through the many small cemeteries in the Smokies and seeing the family names of that area. Glad to have found your videos as I have been away for over 20 years and find this all fascinating.
Amazing
Yep, women were the work horses and brood mares.
Indeed
That's not what I call a polecat. That's not even a mink or weasel. That's some kind of a ferret and definitely not an animal of the Appalachian mountains.
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Hello from australia people up in mountains back then had it hard. I love listening to the history stories. Moonshine.. way to go.
Glad to have you here my friend
I wonder if it was accidental, our chestnut trees here in Pennsylvania have died in abundance this year. You can actually see them dead in the middle of forests where all other trees are growing strong. Anyway it’s amazing how strong these people were to start a new in a strange country. Keep these wonderful stories coming please!
The American Chestnut was killed from a fungus that was imported from Asia. The Chestnut trees in Asia had built immunity from the fungus, but the American trees had never encountered it before and had no defense. The fungus was imported to NY and within 10 years it spread all the way across Appalachia and killed every Chestnut Tree. Now, the root systems of these Chestnut trees still exists and are still alive since the fungus cant penetrate the acidic soil. So the roots continuously sprout new twigs and the fungus kills them again. However, in recent years, scientists have been cross breading the Asian and American Chestnuts DNA to try to build resistance to the fungus here in America. That said, even if the Chestnut reappeared today, it would take 1000 years for it to return to its former glory in Appalachia.
The chestnuts have died long ago... they'll still try to sprout off of old trunks, but once the saplings get to a certain size, their bark opens up, the blight enters, and kills it off before it's of a size to produce nuts.
Now, the emerald ash borer is killing off the ash trees. Right now, driving around the region, many of the trees you see dead are ash.
@@lesliebright3860 exactly, you can see some dead ash in the opening scene in this video.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller how very sad that is! 😫
@@amypaparone55 indeed, its a very sad reality
Your information is pretty good for the southern Appalachians, but north of, say Jane Lew, West Virginia things were different. There the Methodists and Presbyterians were more prominent. Bishop Frances Asbury’s travels and sermons guaranteed that. There were some Scots Irish, like my family that were in reality Irish Scots Irish too as the Irish sea is not far across. My five times great grandfather John and wife Sarah were two early settlers in northern West Virginia, where I still live. I might add the demise of the Chestnut was bad, but one major agricultural project has been finding and spreading blight resistant trees with some success.
Indeed, I appreciate your thoughts on religion, it was different for the northern section. Regarding the Chestnut, you are correct, research combining the DNA of Asian and American Chestnut is focused on producing a Chestnut tree with the resistance to the fungus of the Asian Chestnut and the quality of the American Chestnut wood
Awesome video thanks for sharing love herring about the Appalachian
Thanks brother
My pleasure buddy
My folks are german american immigrants who somewhere married into the Cherokee Tribe then they moved up to Michigan during The Hillbilly Highway
awesome!
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without”
My Grandma from Kentucky used to say this all the time..
Amen 🙏
Sounds like what my Grandma used to say to she was from Kentucky
We have been in that area since mid late 1700's
strong bloodlines my friend
The Robinettes and Bollins
I would love to hear the narrator tell more stories. He has a great voice.
Be sure to check our channel out, there are over 100 stories told by him
A pole cat in Appalachia is a skunk, not the mink shown. Great video!
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Pictured critter is a ferret. Polecat? Don't know.
That's crazy huge the way those Chestnut trees get so huge. When I see the pictures of giant redwoods it is amazing as well. It's sad to here the story of how they were infected and so many died off.
Indeed my friend
I hope people understand if the Appalachian could keep food on the table, they like their lives, they love the mountains and i love them.
Indeed my friend
Good morning from North Texas! My ancestors came from Wales to North Carolina, In 1700 then some moved into Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and then into Texas. So some of the pioneers we're my people, I'm proud to say. Crane/Crain, Young were some of their names.
💪 strong bloodlines
My Irish ancestry came here in 1700s, but I don't know where they were, except Oklahoma. My Irish great-great-grandfather's name was John O'May.
@@rhonda.gross57 I joined a geneaology page called My Heritage and although it's kinda expensive, it has quite the database to be able to find your ancestors. Matter of fact they'll find them for you and suggest them as 'Smart Matches' for you to look at and confirm or deny. You can start there by adding your parents and their parents and they'll do the rest. They even have links to marriages and immigration from other Countries as well as photos on some of them. I have well over 5,000 in my tree thus far and I work on adding names and checking their smart matches several times a week. That's how I have been able to find out so much on my line. I also have ancestors that lived and died in Oklahoma, and I don't live that far from there now.
@@rhonda.gross57 thats an Irish name for sure, if I run across it in my research, ill let ya know
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you!!
Him glad all the primitive Baptist church I’ve been apart of or visited no longer believe in the way they did back then. Primitive Baptist where I’m from are dead said against drinking maybe it’s because people began to read and read the Bible for themselves
Yeah- folks couldn’t read in the early days
I was blown away by my ancestry. Mostly Scottish on my dad's side. I have royal ancestry from Scotland, and England. But I heard that 60 % of Americans today do. Very interesting!
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It seems that many of us whose family has been over here for centuries does have "royal" blood......and are related in some way!
I'm proud to know my grma,maternal,has irish,,.stacy,on grfathers side,and scottish,plowman on mother's side. And why I love true crime since a kid,. I'm a sr,plus,and grma had. Mags.. I'm rummaging in bureau ,found blk n white True detective mags in her bureau drawers..in 50s,.why I loved old detective movies, Scotland yard etc..True crime obsessed today. ...
You know the Scottish Highlands and the Atlas Mountains were all once part of the Appalachians.
It’s why those from Scotland felt right at home in Nova Scotia.
They’re Old Souls.
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Well said