I remember those days!
This olive tree has been alive for the writing of the Iliad, the golden age of Athens, the rise of the Roman Empire, the birth of Jesus, and then lived for 2,000 years after that. It is thought to be about 2,900 years old!!!
Crete, Greece
Rebecca Ketcher Neugin was the last survivor of the Cherokees’ removal to Indian Territory. Pictured here with a small child in an undated photo, Neugin was a child herself in 1838 when she made the difficult walk from Georgia with her family. Her daughter, Kate Rackleff, shared in a 1937 interview for the Indian-Pioneer Papers: “Mother did not have the opportunity to attend school and always signed her name by mark; she helped with the family’s spinning and weaving, made her own dresses and helped to dry and preserve the fruits and berries for winter use.”
Neugin died in 1932.
Image courtesy of the Cherokee National Archives
