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EVEN Civil War Vet. Union Army
Henry went off to war, a soldier in the Union Army. Lucinda Tipton Thurman had given birth on Febuary 14, 1862 to a son, John Monroe Thurman (Little Johnnie). On August 30, 1864 another son was born to Henry C. and Lucinda Thurman. The Father, Henry C. Thurman was still in the Army and could not be home when the child was born, although Lucinda begged for him to please be there. Lucinda did not understand the Army at all. Henry C. in one of this letters named his second Richard Perry Thurman. The name Richard is a Thurman name and the friend and Half-brother of Henry C, was Perry Tipton, hence the name Perry.
In the series of Civil War lettlers between Henry C. and Lucinda a story is told, of the War, life at home, and the life of a Soldier. A soldier that was a nusband, son and father. One little note sums this up- Henry Carric wrote a note to his son, "Little Johnnie", saying that he had gotten the candy-kisses that Johnnie had sent his Daddy. The note ends by saying, Good-bye, my little boy-I Love you."
Henry Carric never saw his son, Little johnnie, again. And he never saw his second son at all, For, Henry Carric Thurman died in Washington D. C. Aprial 1864. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery, as one in many examples of a good son, father and soldier.
About 108 years after Henry Carric Thurman bult this log house, for this wife, Lucinda Tipton Thurman, in the year 1969, Florence Picken Thurman, the widow of Carric Taylor Thurman, sold the land to the Woods Brothers, Vicking Development Company. This was a 50 acre tract of land for which she received $45,000.00. The old house was still standing, but had not been lived in for many years. This house had been used for storage for the Thurman family's over-flow of old furniture and such as collects over the years.
Lucinda Tipton Thurman loved her husband very mush and had been separated from him most of their married life by the Civil War. When Henry Carric died in 1864 all that Lucinda had left of him was the lettlers that he had written to her and the ones she had written to him. Lucinda saved these lettlers, and she must have taken them from the cloth they were wrapped in many times to read and re-read. Sometime before the year 1915, which was the year Lucinda died, she must have wrapped the lettlers for the last time and stored them in the loft of the Log Home that she lived in many years.
In the year 1955, the wife of Lucinda grandson, Carric Taylor Thurman (his wife is Florence Pickens Thurman, now a widow) found the letters and not dreaming that anyone would want to read them, took the letters home and placed them in a trunk in an old trunk. When the old log house and land were sold. the pre-1861 lettlers and old receipts and discharge papers were found. These were shown to Carl and Anna Thurman Rudder and seeing the excitement and pleasure the rudders had over these documents, florence P. Thurman handed them the Civil War letters.
All of these letters and documents were then mailed to Rena Thurman Grammer to br photo-copied, with the permission of keeping a copy of all of these for herself. She made a copy of all of these for herself.
The Home built of logs was torn down. Rena Thurman Grammer received for herself one of the logs and the chink that held it, also three windows of this house that must have been put in at a later date than 1861. The windows are going to be used as picture frames for Thurman pictures, putting one behind each pane of glass. these windowa are put together with pegs and the glass is very old and irregular. Each window has six panes and measures 28X 32 1/2 inches. the log is 32X 51/4X101/2 with a place 3" wide & 1" deep, cut out of it for the chink. On the log are pieces of old news-papers and wallpaper, the news paper talks about the Yellow fever, which must have been about 1878.
So ends the House Bulit of Logs. Progress must be made and the old give way to the new, but I have often wondered if the man who tore this old log house down, might have stopped and listened, to the sign and perhaps a sob, as it fell to the ground.
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