My ancestors in Sullivans Hollow in Smith County tween Mt Olive and Mize used to have a log cabin standing from 1790s...the oldest continually lived in structure in the state.
A dogtrot...open air with two distinct sides.
I had fried peach pie their in 1980 with my 4X grandpa pappy Tom Sullivan’s great grandson Shep Sullivan and his wife. They by then had running water and an add on bathroom and power...but no AC. I hope it is still there. I think it is.
The annual reunion of Tom’s 1000s of descendents is last Sunday of September....I may drag some of my lads down.
SirKit has a picture of his maternal Great Grandmother standing on the porch of a dogtrot cabin. It was probably taken in the very early 1900s. His Mama’s people, as well as my Daddy’s people were from the woods of MS. Sullivan’s Hollow sounds VERY familiar, for the Smith family, and my Daddy’s people, the Brown family, was from the Richton, then Rolling Fork area.
I’ve never heard the term “dogtrot” until this thread. What’s wrong with east MS?
Frankly, another thing about east MS is that “bless your heart” isn’t a snide comeback. We really mean it!
Lordy...even being born in raised in the same state, our culture is so different.
My grandaddy was raised in a dogtrot, along with 10 brothers and sisters...another died in infancy. My grandaddy was the one who moved to town, and made a success of himself. However, even though he was the fourth child, he was the one who supported the rest of his siblings.
He had two careers. In his first career in business, he retired at 45. He was bored so he started another career at 50, and retired at 65.
He took the social security checks and used them until he figured that they had repaid him, with interest. After that, he gave his ss checks to charity.
He tried to stop the checks, but they kept coming.