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Showing posts with label Sixes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sixes. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Memories Mary Hillhouse Flower Garden

















My mother, Mary Hillhouse is turning 90 years old in April.  Within the last 4 years, she has had hip and shoulder surgery and her planting days are gone.  She no longer can work in her yard and tend to her flowers.  Most of them are now gone due to the lack of love and care she showered on them for forty years.  Many of these flowers were from her mother's cuttings Eloise McArthur Hillhouse as well as friends through the years.  I didn't appreciate their splendor and beauty as I should have.  They are now memories of times past.  A time of country flower gardens that southern women like her and her mother and mother's mother generations loved to have in the spring living on the country roads of Cherokee County.  I am grateful I have photographs of those precious flowers that will forever linger in my memory of my mom.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Old Sixes School - Little Red One Room Schoolhouse




The Old Sixes one room school house is where my mother and her brothers attended school first thorough 8th grade. The school picture above was taken in 1940 and was recently featured in Dixie Living Magazine.  My uncle Rufus and uncle Earnie Hillhouse attended the one room school and are pictured standing in the back row.  The Sixes school house is located in Cherokee County, Georgia outside of Canton. Sixes is an unincorporated community in western Cherokee County located about three miles west of Holly Springs and near the eastern shore of current-day Lake Allatoona.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

A Country Church, Sixes, Georgia

Sixes, Georgia is an unincorporated town in Cherokee County. Several generations of my ancestors are buried at the Sixes United Methodist Church. To preserve memories of the historical building, I took these pictures before they have built the new church. The grave yard is located in the back. A parking lot is being constructed and a subdivision surrounds the grave yard. Historical places are slowly being consumed. These are memories of a country church.