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From: "Smith, Joanne" <>
Subject: RE: [GERMANNA] Adam Yeager's Land
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:57:35 -0400


Dear Corlee, Reading your story reminds me of seeing my Great-grandparents' homes. I can remember watching my mother risk her life trying to go into the run down house of her material grandparents. I still amazes me how little the older members of my family valued their heritage, and that is on both sides of my family. ALL of the old home places are either in ruins, sold or torn down long ago. I would like nothing more that to be able to walk in a house and know that not only had they lived there, but built it with their own hands. Just plain sad.

Joanne

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From: Corlee Morris [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:59 AM
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Subject: [GERMANNA] Adam Yeager's Land


Dear List Members,

All of this talk (typing?) about Adam Yeager's land brings back a deep
sorrow to my heart. In 1998 I visited Madison County for the first
time. Using the plot map of the Robinson River farms, and great
information from a fellow Yeager Cousin I explored Madison for two days.
I had found a picture of a house that was on Adam Yeager's land and I
drove over every road in the area looking for the house. By chance I
stopped at a yard sale just down the road from where the house was
located. The homeowners and I started talking and I explained why I was
on the road in the first place (looking for the house in the picture).
The homeowners told me that I could not see the house from the road but
they told me how to find the land parcel. I did find the land parcel
and I trespassed up to what was left of the house. I noticed a for sale
sign on the property and I took down the phone number and name of the
agent. When I got back home to California, I gave the agent a call. I
made another visit to Madison a few months later and began researching
to see if the land had actually belonged to Adam Yeager. I also started
to work with another real estate agent from Culpepper. That agent could
not get the selling agent to met us at the property, nor give us a plot
map of the land. The selling agent's literature stated that there was a
creek on the land and I wanted to know where it was. I tried again to
have the selling agent met with me. At the time of the 1999 Germanna
Reunion, I learned that the farm had been sold. I had determined that
there was a very good chance that the farm was part of the original Adam
Yeager Farm. The last listed owner in the public records was the heirs
of the Yeager Payne Estate. The county records also listed the land
transactions since Madison County formed and it seemed to have been in
the possession of Yeager decedents since then.

The news of the sale was like a death of a close relative. The old
colonial house that I wanted to restore has been torn down by the new
owners. I had day dreams of moving back to my roots and farming. My only
consolation is that I was able to walk and explore the property. I saw
the remnants of the original log house, the tobacco barn and the
probable site of another barn. I picked up two paines of glass that I
plan to use in a picture frame that will hold a panorama picture of the
farm. The last time I saw the property, it was covered with snow and
quite beautiful.

Corlee Morris,
7th great granddaughter to Adam Yeager




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