Comments on: Miss Addie and Mr. Kull https://www.kull.us/archives/116 Our Family History Blog Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Janet Stewart https://www.kull.us/archives/116#comment-42 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:17:48 +0000 http://www.kull.us/?p=116#comment-42 Doris,

My sister, Linda, and I are coming to Alabama next week(Feb. 28th, 2015) to see as much as we can of our grandparents beginnings. Will you contact me so I can get some info from you? My e-mail address is above and my phone # is 706-799-3949.

Thank you!!

]]> By: Doris Finley, Weiland https://www.kull.us/archives/116#comment-10 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:21:07 +0000 http://www.kull.us/?p=116#comment-10 Fred Kull was my grandfather… Mary Kull, Finley was my mother:
I remember my mother telling me that grandpa Fred did not like children going in and out of the house and allowing the door to slam; so when I would go out I would stand at the door for the longest allowing the door to close just a little by little so it would not make a noise and at the same time he would be looking up over his glasses, watching to if it was going to slam..
I always had great admirations for my grandfather and his brother, uncle Julius for their accomplishments here in America. I remember as a child how I would always want my mom to tell me about her train trip from Chicago to North Alabama.
Uncle Julius had already came to the Ardmore area a year or so earlier and had told grandpa he should relocate to North Alabama where the land was free and that he knew someone that was about to loose his land because he had not done all that was required and that grandpa could take it over and make his claim on it for just a few dollars. Sooo!! Grandpa loaded up the family and moved to Alabama!
The property that grandpa got was on Puliski Pike-Bobo Section Rd. on the North side and each side of Wall Triana ..Grandpa had three children at that time; Liddy, Mary, and Lewis… Grandma did not come with the children until grandpa got the place fixed-up.
When my mother was 5 years old, she her mother, her sister “Liddy and brother Lewis road a train from Chicago to Fayetteville, TN. Then caught a train that at the time ran from Fayetteville to Taft Tennessee, then she hired a man with a buckboard to take them to Uncle Julius’ place on the Alabama/Tennessee Stateline Road.. The two families lived in uncle Julius’ home which at the time consisted of two rooms.. The two rooms consisted of one in the ground and the other was built on top of it.. I use to kid my mom and say that was why there was such a gap between the birth of uncle Lewis and uncle Willie because there was no room for such activity!!! (:ing!!! Anyway the Kull brothers met the Gaddoda brothers while on the ship coming to New York, became friends and went South together.. Both set of brothers ended up homesteading in Madison County, Alabama and became life long best friends and life long residents of Madison County, Alabama…Both sets of brothers lived within a mile or two of each other and I live only one mile East of Uncle Julius’ home-place… I sure do miss it and it saddens me each time I drive by it and see nothing but wild weeds growing where his fine vineyard use to be and where his beautiful home use to sit… I hope someday I will be able to forgive the young man that had the meth-lab there that destroyed that beautiful home and a land mark for this area.. Everyone in this area knew Uncle Julius and talked about his fine wine and the great stories he told… I still have a copy of the newspaper where a news reporter from Athens in the early sixties came out and interviewed them.. They were such a sweet and loving couple and always bragged on each other and spoke of how much they loved each other, she would always look up at him, smile and say, “he is still as handsome now as he was the first day I met him”… I can still see him smiling as she spoke those words.. OH!!! such a loving couple!!!

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