Photo Hunt - Sad

This week's Photo Hunters theme is "sad"
PhotoHunt

I wasn't sure what I would do for "sad." Of course, we immediately begin wondering if we have any photos of our children crying. I thought I would just go through my albums and think and I immediately found this photo which I took in 2001. I know it probably will not make you sad, but it instantly brings tears to my eyes. I'm so sentimental, sappy!

This is my Granny's home. I had been on some genealogy hunts to distant towns to see where my heritage was from. I remember I had found this house the year before this photo for the first time. I remember being in the house one time as a little girl, but only remember being told to sit on a bench and wait and not to move and be good.

The folks in town had told me that this house was built before the Civil War and that it had bullet holes in the walls from the local famous Battle of Pilot Knob (or here). It sits across the street from the fort where the battle occurred. My Granny did not live in it during the Civil War, but did live in it for a long period of time.

This is my Dad in the photo and he remembered much more about the house, especially all the work building onto it with his own hands.

This was the last time we saw the house as they condemned it and took it down shortly after this photo. I thought it was very sad that a historic house, one of the few that old in town, would be allowed to get in this condition, rather than preserving it.

It makes me sad that a part of my family history is gone now.

It makes me sad that Granny is gone and that I did not talk to her more as a teenager to learn more about her family who was partly Indian.

It makes me sad that Dad is gone. Cancer is such an ugly thing.