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I’m in Love…..hook me up with Nellie McKay Ya’ll Hear!

Down in the River Allison Krauss

The Universe Poem

The universe is a spot on a hair

on a mole on the nose of an

old man on a train

on a track crossing a

field of yellow flowers

by the sea.

For Janet

Late at night again

He’s dreaming on the screen

He’s dreaming waterfalls and

bumblebees flying impossibly.

He’s dreaming flowers waving in

the spring breeze like

children.

He’s dreaming the wind blowing in

her hair again.

Our top search terms

These are a few of the words people used to arrive here:
They don’t reflect all visitors

port royal bridge pictures 3
Port Royal 2
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covered bridge pictures 1
grandma 1
melvin jackson, sr 1
melvin jackson\’s daughter 1
poems about clarksville’s greenwood cemetery 1
port royal bridge paintings clarksville tn 1
Port Royal Covered Bridge 1
son of a bitch Webb Ransdell 1
wiggleton, port royal, taennessee 1

It has to be another Webb Ransdell. If you ask the big Google….for great uncle poem you get this great uncle poem about the man. This gives me a chance to post a link with the right words to the poem….Googlebot is the robot’s name……He’s reading my words. He’s a bean counter who wants to put things in their place. He’s a word counting robot. He’s my buddy. I feed him. He visits 20 times a day. He listens better than anyone. He’ll go there and check it out. He’ll check to see if anyone else called it a great uncle poem.
Things people ask for in search engines can be hilarious. I bet the people at Google have some stories to tell!

btw
Webb Ransdell was NOT a son of a bitch
In case that guy comes back

Ye ol’ squirrel

This squirrel poem by Wayne Jackson has been here since 1996. It has been page one or two in Google for 12 years and has been reads by many thousands of people

Happy Easter From Mississippi John Hurt

Early Morning Poem By Maria Taggart

Walking In A Field Of Lilies

Early in the morning
The dew is on the grass
The smell of the earth
Is on my nostril
The wind on my hair
And a bird is waking from a night’s sleep
Morning is clear
And a bird is on the wing
Babies are hungry
And mama and dad
Are looking for worms

and in Portuguese:

Caminhando Em Um Campo De Lirios

Cedo na manhã
O orvalho está na erva
O cheiro da terra
Está nas minhas narinas
O verito no meu cabelo
E um pássaro desperta do seu sono de noite
A manhã está clara
E um pássaro começa voar
As suas crianças tem fome
A mama e a papa
Buscam vermes

(translation to Portuguese by Jodey Bateman)

A Song For Wayne Jackson

Melvin Jackson Census Records from 1920

1920 census shows Lester Ransdale living with Charlie Ransdale in Montgomery County…….note spelling….is it Ransdale or Ransdell?….Charles Elliot moved to Clarksville at the age of 10….

Dora Tramill, Momo’s mother died of TB in 1914. Charlie was to marry again in 1921.

Dora Tramill is listed as buried in “Jordan Springs” cemetery in Montgomery County. Cannot find it….

In 1920 there is a Melvin Jackson living in Robertson County who was born in 1900 with a brother named Tuama Jackson…Is Tuama a miss-spelling like Ransdale? Is Tuama really Thomas? Maybe.

The 1920 census shows no Melvin Jackson in Montgomery county in 1920. Momo was 17, he was 20.

They married in 1922 and by the 1930 census had three children. One son is named Henry Thomas Jackson. The record shows no Henry or Thomas Ransdale (or Ransdell)……I would expect to find a Henry or Thomas on my granfather’s side

 

…david