Pioneer Farmhouse, Adkison Road

11 Responses to Pioneer Farmhouse, Adkison Road

1. Lori Odom Jones

   January 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM

   My Aunt Alice and Uncle Edd lived for a number of years in a small mobile home right in Ms Missouri’s yard. I spent so much time over there! I can still remember her well. She was a true Southern Belle…minus the mint juleps. Great memories!

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2. Fred Gleaton

   December 6, 2011 at 10:36 AM

   Sorry about the duplication.

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3. Linda Adams

   November 28, 2011 at 1:37 PM

   Brian – Our ‘pioneer’ farmhouse looks so much like this one – and it hurts to see so many neglected – when they could be restored and lived in! The descendants of the old house owners usually drag in a double-wide beside it – when they could have put that money into the old house and had an asset that would have appreciated, rather than depreciated!
   Next time you are in our area you are welcome to stay at our guesthouse and see our old – lived in – farmhouse.
   We are in Schley County – just east of Ellaville.

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   • Brian Brown

     December 6, 2011 at 10:34 AM

     Thanks so much, Linda. I love that area, and hope to get back up there sometime in the near future. Other projects are keeping me so occupied right now that I don’t know when it will be, but I know there’s lots in Schley County I’ve yet to see. Please stay in touch, and thanks for your interest in my photographs.

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   • Lori Odom Jones

     January 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM

     I so agree, Linda!!! I would love to own an old house like this in the country, but many who own them wouldn’t even sell the house with half an acre so they just sit there and rot. So sad!

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4. Fred Gleaton

   November 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM

   I was on Gleaton Road the other day, not so very far from Ashburn. When I was a boy, there was a tenant house on that road which was actually a hewn log structure. My father always said it was the oldest house in those parts. It was still there a few years ago, but is now gone. Too bad. I drove from Sylvester to Warwick, up GA 33 to Gleaton Road, then across to GA 313. I always remember GA 33 as a truly beautiful drive for South Georgia, with rolling hills. It is still a very pretty drive.

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   • Brian Brown

     November 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM

     I was just there on Saturday, Fred. I love the Gleaton Road area. Perhaps you can help me identify some structures as I post them today! Are you related to those Gleatons?

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     • Fred Gleaton

       November 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM

       I AM those Gleatons. My grandfather cut the road from the Warwick-Sylvester HWY (313) to 33 (at the Vickers Still voting precinct) after he bought our farm in 1912. I grew up on Gleaton Road, though at the time there were no signs that proved it WAS Gleaton Road. I think that Victorian in Ashburn may have been the house that Betty Talmadge grew up in.
     • Brian Brown

       November 28, 2011 at 1:08 PM

       I think that’s right…she didn’t grow up in the Sparrow’s Nest, though she mentioned it in a note she wrote me years ago. Is the Sparrow’s Nest further into town? I should know, but just can’t recall right off. Much of my family is from Turner County, too. The Pates. Interesting about your grandfather. Thanks for sharing.
     • Fred Gleaton

       November 28, 2011 at 2:14 PM

       Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Pate (Pearl and MIssouri, believe it or not) owned the farm just east of ours and their farm headquarters and home are just 1/4 mile off Gleaton Road. Mr. Pearl was a member of the Worth County Commission for many years. Their oldest son Wayne was President of Golden Flake Potato Chips.
     • Brian Brown

       December 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM

       Probably some of my relatives, Fred. I’m kin to most all the Pates in Turner and many in Worth. My paternal grandmother was a Pate from Turner County…

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