Paul Hight, Seavy's brother Click here for Paul's Notes
Seavy Sayings:
"Your side of the creek."
"When you're young you go around looking for someone that you will have and when you get older you go around trying to find someone you can get." (Found insome old letters. that Goodman Craig wrote home,
Seavy Hight as a young man.
Pa and Dianna about 1948
Both Seavy and Clay seem to develop their square jawline in their "after teen" years. Neither man had such a square jaw when young, but both did later on. (refer to Sallie Rust jaw.)
Notes
Bill T. remembers:
About all I remember about Uncle Seavy was him mowing that big yard with that Cub tractor and belly mower after losing his legs.
He was plowing fields when he was 85 years old, in 105 degree heat, walking behind mules. (Dianna memory)
Larry Belew remembers Seavy's collie dog. He once he took Pa to town. Seavy walked the cornfield with the collie and told him to stay. When they got back from town, the cows Never Got in the field.
From Wayne.....
Yes Kerr road is named for my relatives. A so many great uncles ago person
named John Kerr lived down that road and ran a grain mill. He is buried with
his family in a family cemetery on that road somewhere. John was the brother
of William my ancestor. They both descend from James Kerr the earliest Kerr
progenitor in Maury County.
Seavy Hight Road actually branched to the south just before becoming Kerr
Road.
Seavy Hight cut most of the roads in the area.
Seavy was also an outstanding carpenter. He built his barn, complete with drive thru lane, corn crib, and upstairs hay loft. He also renovated and improved the house, and built some fine furniture. One heavy four post cherry wood bedstead remains in the family, now in Alaska, along with a cupboard (Hoosier style).
Seavy Hight's Place
(this area under construction... I need to make some scans, and collate the historical notes that have been sent, and bring in a link to Edmonson's picture......)(just ran out of time today...7/17)
Morgan Fitzpatrick in 1850’s bought the tract of bottom land in the Big Bend(Seavys). He built a mill prior to 1863 just upstream from Seavy’s house. He never lived there but the land ended up being owned by Edmonsons. Mrs. Edmondson was a relative of Fitzpatrick. Seavy bought the place from J. M. Bryant who must have bought it from the Edmondsons.
Jim Hight and his first wife lived at Park Station. Seavy was born on the John A.J. Park farm. Following her death, Jim Hight bought a place on Crews Hill in 1891.
Now, some things about Paul Hight .
Paul Hight, the Genius--
Once made a telegraph machine that he and Seavy could talk back and forth before they had phones. Paul buried coiled pipe in the ground at Jim Hights well so the water would always be cold. It was.
Paul Hight, the Carpenter-- Mr. Luther Lamar knew Paul Hight. He said, " He said Paul could build anything." and told some of the descendants that they got their carpenter skills from the Hight line, although Hardison Thrasher was also an accomplished carpenter as well. Apparently the skills run in both families.
Paul Hight, the Road Builder--
After Paul bought the back place, he bought a surveying instrument and built a new road to the house. It was nearly a mile long and only had 8 or 10 feet of fall over the whole distance. On top of that, it had to curve around a hillside. To look at it, you thought it was about level, there was such little amount of fall. With only mule drawn equipment, he built the dirt road with such perfection, a car would coast the whole distance.
There is a field on the back place we call the “foundation field” it’s a concrete foundation to a barn Paul had started before he died. More about Paul’s skills will be seen when we discuss Netties House.
Letters
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I find the spelling of "Mother" an interesting snapshot of the language of the time... they used "Mudder" as near as I can tell from the writing.
1917 in Winterhaven, Fla.
This one is the right-side-up version of the top half of the first note:
