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This is the continuing story of the Gilmer family who operate and live next to a water-powered saw mill in rural Guilford County, North Carolina during 1916 and 1917. In December, a medical emergency sends Lille Gilmer to St. Leo's Hospital. Lillie and her fourteen-year-old brother, Jake, are students at one-room Tucker School in their neighborhood with Headmaster R.M. Gladstone. The Patriarch of the family is Lee Hanner who is third generation sawyer at this mill. He is Anna Gilmer's father. Anna and her husband Samuel Gilmer and their three children live in the old farm house owned by Lee…mehr

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This is the continuing story of the Gilmer family who operate and live next to a water-powered saw mill in rural Guilford County, North Carolina during 1916 and 1917. In December, a medical emergency sends Lille Gilmer to St. Leo's Hospital. Lillie and her fourteen-year-old brother, Jake, are students at one-room Tucker School in their neighborhood with Headmaster R.M. Gladstone. The Patriarch of the family is Lee Hanner who is third generation sawyer at this mill. He is Anna Gilmer's father. Anna and her husband Samuel Gilmer and their three children live in the old farm house owned by Lee Hanner. Twenty-year-old Molly Gilmer is in her Senior year at The North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro, studying to be an elementary school teacher. The love of her life is Joe Thacker; Joe graduated in 1913 from North Carolina State College and is now an engineer for Cone Mills in Greensboro. Lillie makes it home in time for the family to share a wonderful Christmas. After a big misunderstanding between Joe and Molly, great joy fills their hearts by the dawn of 1917. The School Board meets with parents and teachers to discuss consolidation into one large local school. Lee Hanner is on the committee. Can the ancient saw mill provide lumber for the new school? After this major project, Lee Hanner's health becomes a crisis. A German couple appears, renting the house where Will Granger lived. Why are they in the United States when a war is serious in Europe and involving us? A great heartache grips the Gilmer family at Easter of 1917. Molly has a difficult professor that holds her career future in his hands; at the same time, a telegram to Joe Thacker threatens to unravel their wedding plans. A veteran of the Spanish-American War has P.T.S.D. which has escalated into bizarre and increasingly violent behavior; but still he shows selfless courage during a house fire. Through all life's many changes, the love of God and family bonds hold steadfast.
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Jackie Jobe Haines was raised outside Greensboro in southeast Guilford County, North Carolina on land that had been farmed by her mother's family for four generations. Jackie is a lifelong member of Alamance Presbyterian Church. She graduated from Southeast Senior High School in 1972. Following her dream to do something in the medical field, Jackie attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she also played clarinet in the UNC Bands. She graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theraputic Recreation. Jackie was employed by Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro from fall of 1977 until April of 1984 as Recreation Therapist on Pediatrics. She married Marion D. Haines on April 28, 1984, moving to Port St. John (between Titusville and Cocoa), FL. Marion retired in 1989 from the U.S. Air Force, then took a job as Networking Specialist (computers) with Brevard County, FL in 1990. Also in 1990, Marion and Jackie became parents to their sson, Benjamin. The Haines family joined Indian River City United Methodist Church in 1992. Marion and Jackie planned to retire to Greensboro and build a home on the Jobe farm, but Marion died of pancreatic cancer on Halloween night, 2008. Jackie Haines lives in Titusville, FL as well as Greensboro, in the neighborhood where she had grown up. She published an article about her Grandfather, Albert Jobe's garage, service station and store in 2014, just before it was demolished to make room for a new road. Jackie sings in the choir in both her churches, and does volunteer work in the community, including her churches and the local hospitals. Jackie's first novel was Little Mill on Beaver Creek