Category: Davie Diaries

My parents were Gilmer James and Louise Smith Hartley.  Everyone called my dad “Slick.”  How I wish I… Read More

When I was growing up, there were several families on Church Street. On the right side going down… Read More

Recently I posted on Facebook that with the passing of Mrs. Jim Wall, I was the last of… Read More

Looking at all the pictures of old houses on the Appalachian Memory Keepers site made me think about… Read More

John Boone was the first cousin of the more famous Boone, Daniel. He was born in Pennsylvania in… Read More

Boone’s Cave is a North Carolina State Park located in Davidson County, North Carolina, just a few miles… Read More

Hiram Hamilton Hartley, known as H. H. to friends and family, was my great-great-grandfather. Born in Davidson County,… Read More

Minnie Elizabeth Hendrix Potts was my great-grandmother, the mother of my dad’s mother, Iva Potts Hartley. Her parents… Read More

Ollie Hamilton Hartley, Papa Hartley to me, was born in 1885 in Davidson County, North Carolina, only one… Read More

My grandmother, Iva Potts, married my grandfather, O. H. Hartley, in 1908 when she was sixteen years old…. Read More