Post by cablesmill on May 11, 2016 0:44:23 GMT -5
On my last day of hiking in the woods of Cades Cove this year I was on a quest to find the remaining chimney rocks of the Henderson Brown place. Sadly, I didn't find it (through my own fault), but I happened upon an old roadbed on my way back out. I walked it as I always do when I find a road and as I was almost to the creek that flows by the Tipton/Oliver cabin, I realized this was the road that went by his place (IF I only had the map I usually carry of the home places with me). It was too late in the day for me to turn around, so I kept going. On this road was where the Bill and Laura Shuler family had lived also, but much closer to the loop road. There is nothing left there now to let you know a home once stood here, just the memory of it held onto by his descendants. I turned and took a photo of the roadbed as it climbed back up the hill from the Tipton/Oliver cabin after I had passed the spot. The Shuler cabin was 3/4 mile from the Tipton/Oliver cabin and beyond where the road ends in the photo. The black & white photo is in the book written by Gladys Oliver Burns, Cades Cove, A Place in Appalachia (I don't know who took the photo). It tells a story of when the people of Cades Cove packed up their belongings for their move out after the GSMNP began it's life. In 1936, Bill Shuler did that. Shular family in the photo are (L to R) Laura holding Bobbie Marie, *Lois, Bill, Max, Dorothy, and Julie Shular. The two men are Pearlie and Jack Anthony, they were still living in the Cove at the time. *Kermit Caughron is the driver in the truck.
* Lois married Kermit and lived in Cades Cove until 1998. They first lived in the Dan lLwson cabin, then in the more modern frame house to the left of it.