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David Crockett in his autobiography tells the story of "Deaf and Dumb Jimmy" but he places the scene in Kentucky, making probably the same mistake in the location of the state-line boundary which Coonrod Pile had made. Coonrod Pile lived to the age of eighty-three and at the time of his death was the most powerful personality in Fentress county.
I can't feel right to have it left to hirelin's so. But there ain't anybody any more to see things done as they ought. If Coonrod was on'y here " "Well, mother, you are pretty mixed!" said Mela, with a strong tendency to break into her large guffaw. But she checked herself and said: "I know just how you feel, though.
I don't know what they're doin' in all their churches, to let such things go on," said the old woman. "It's a sin and a shame, I think. Don't you, Coonrod?" A ring at the door cut short whatever answer he was about to deliver. "If it's going to be company, Coonrod," said his mother, making an effort to rise, "I reckon I better go up-stairs." "It's Mr. Fulkerson, I guess," said Conrad.
It wouldn't do for you to go with any other young man. Conrad will go with you." "I'm not certain I want to go, yet," said Christine. "Well, settle that among yourselves. But if you want to go, your brother will go with you." "Of course, Coonrod 'll go, if his sisters wants him to," the old woman pleaded.
It opens on the roadway about halfway between the Rains' store and the old home of Coonrod. But there is no myth to the present-day side of the story. More than squirrels and rabbits have been hunted up that ravine.
I kin see a change in 'em a'ready in the girls." Dryfoos stretched himself on the lounge again. "I can't see as Coonrod is much comfort, either. Why ain't he here with his sisters? What does all that work of his on the East Side amount to? It seems as if he done it to cross me, as much as anything."
He was the great-great-grandfather of Sergeant Alvin Cullom York, and the earliest ancestor of which he has account. Above the spring in the rock-facing of the cliff is a large cave. Here Coonrod Pile spread a bed of leaves and made his home.
Not far from Pall Mall, as the crow would rise and journey, is a carving upon a tree that is believed, to historically mark the path of the most noted of the "Long Hunters," and it says: "D Boon CillED a BAR On Tree in ThE yEAR 1760." Emigrants of those days settled as Coonrod Pile and his companions took up their "squatter's rights" in the Valley o' the Wolf.
I don't know what they're doin' in all their churches, to let such things go on," said the old woman. "It's a sin and a shame, I think. Don't you, Coonrod?" A ring at the door cut short whatever answer he was about to deliver. "If it's going to be company, Coonrod," said his mother, making an effort to rise, "I reckon I better go up-stairs." "It's Mr. Fulkerson, I guess," said Conrad.
I guess it's more of a blow to him than we realize. He was a good deal bound up in Coonrod, though he didn't always use him very well. Well, I reckon it's apt to happen so oftentimes; curious how cruel love can be. Heigh? We're an awful mixture, March!" "Yes, that's the marvel and the curse, as Browning says."
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