Beginning with Hiram down the years to his great, great, great, great- granddaughter Sadie, this was one family and their lives lived in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Theirs was a story like many others that settled that land. Men and women who were drawn to that part of Appalachia were a sturdy, self-reliant folk.They knew well the meaning of community yet chose the life of a homesteader, trying to make a living on small hill farms and raised their families in the traditions brought with them from wherever they immigrated from. This is Beginning with Ol' Hiram down the years to his great, great, great, great- granddaughter Sadie, this was one family and their lives lived in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Theirs was a story like many others that settled that land. Men and women who were drawn to that part of Appalachia were a sturdy, self-reliant folk.They knew well the meaning of community yet chose the life of a homesteader, trying to make a living on small hill farms and raised their families in the traditions brought with them from wherever they immigrated from. This is their story …palachia their story …

Beginning with Hiram down the years to his great, great, great, great- granddaughter Sadie, this was one family and their lives lived in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Theirs was a story like many others that settled that land. Men and women who were drawn to that part of Appalachia were a sturdy, self-reliant folk.They knew well the meaning of community yet chose the life of a homesteader, trying to make a living on small hill farms and raised their families in the traditions brought with them from wherever they immigrated from. This is Beginning with Ol' Hiram down the years to his great, great, great, great- granddaughter Sadie, this was one family and their lives lived in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Theirs was a story like many others that settled that land. Men and women who were drawn to that part of Appalachia were a sturdy, self-reliant folk.They knew well the meaning of community yet chose the life of a homesteader, trying to make a living on small hill farms and raised their families in the traditions brought with them from wherever they immigrated from. This is their story …palachia their story …