Homer's Garage Traditional Cache
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Note 2/11/2024: Replaced and slightly relocated. Plastic peanut butter container. This was orginally placed Spring 2006. It was too close to another cache and we just got around to moving it. The land here once belonged to the brother of my wife's maternal grandmother. He was one of the last to leave LBL. The cache contains a short history of the area. Please leave the history with the cache.
If you drove in on Old Ferry Road (which at one time was U.S. Highway 58) and turned onto 126, you passed by the site where my mother was born. Just at the intersection of Old Ferry Road and 126 stood a store, Calhoun’s Grocery. Behind the store was a house, and that is where mom was born. My mother’s family moved from “Between the Rivers” in 1959 as part of TVA eminent domain in order to form what is now Land Between the Lakes. My mother’s uncle, Homer Ray, did not move as easily, thus the sign and picture. Uncle Homer and his wife Marie lived here at the site of this GeoCache, and he also operated Ray’s Garage. As you look around you will see the remains of an old school bus, cars and other items found at a garage. Uncle Homer proudly served in the Air Force during World War II and was very well-known and well-liked throughout Lyon County. Uncle Homer and Aunt Marie’s only daughter, Alsace Marie, who was named after Homer’s sister Alsace (my grandmother), was born and died while he was overseas during the war. Uncle Homer never saw his daughter, and he and Aunt Marie had no other children. Uncle Homer and Aunt Marie were among the last to vacate their home between the rivers, and with the help of family members they moved on Thanksgiving Day, 1969. Uncle Homer relocated his garage to his home in “new” Eddyville and operated it until his death in 1981. As you travel 126, much of the land around you was owned by the Rays…Homer’s brothers, sisters and parents. The parcel of land that Homer’s sister Alsace and her husband Roy (my grandparents) owned was to someday be the site of their “dreamhouse” and they called it “The Ponderosa.” If you turn down 127 toward Kuttawa Landing you will pass the site where Homer’s parents Cordie and Lona lived. Cordie Ray served as the captain of the Kuttawa Ferry, which crossed the river here and landed at what is now called “Old Kuttawa.” Finally, if you visit Sardis Cemetery near here, you will find Uncle Homer’s, Aunt Marie’s, and Alsace Marie’s graves, as well as the graves of many of the other family listed above and others not discussed. Sardis is also the site the first Sunday of each June of a “Homecoming” celebration in which families who lived in this area and worshiped here return to “catch-up,” have “dinner on the ground” (that’s what the tables are for) and remember old times between the rivers. Many of the original landowners have now passed, but there are still those well enough to attend, as do many of the children such as my mother, who were moved from their homes and schools in the 50s and 60s.
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