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You can share in the experiences of this homeplace and its people
Ammon and Daisy Cook Rhinehart standing at the front gate of their Breezy Hill home in Spencer, TN (about mid 1970s)
Contents: (under construction)
Contents: (under construction)
The Molloy years 1912 to 1923
Laura Cook family and Burritt College years 1923 to 1939
Daisy Cook teaching school in this Van Buren County 1925 to 1940 and her teaching memoirs
Daisy Cook marries Ammon Rhinehart 1940, and begins their family in 1942
World War II years of the 1940s
The 1950s at Breezy Hill
Laura Cook and her family visits
Ammon Rhinehart coal mine one man operation
Ammon Rhinehart strawberry farming
60s, 70s , 80s, 90s
Charles Rhinehart mule ride story
Rhinehart grandchildren enjoy the homeplace
DAISY ART PICTURES
DAISY LIFE STORY
Maintaining the house and grounds
Daisy poems, songs and writings
Some spiritual writings and comments
The house was built in 1912 for the Molloy family. Logan Molloy was a renown federal prohibition agent with a large family. Mr. Molloy's territory was several surrounding counties where he prevented moonshine still operations.
Logan Molloy was noted as being sincere and dedicated about his, and many other's beliefs that moonshine and alcohol abuse were bad for society. He was also noted as being very good at finding and eliminating sources of moonshine.
Logan Molloy was noted as being sincere and dedicated about his, and many other's beliefs that moonshine and alcohol abuse were bad for society. He was also noted as being very good at finding and eliminating sources of moonshine.
A story quote from that time: 'Logan came to my grandpa's house and said "Herb, we need to go bust up a still", grandpa was plowing the garden and replied, "Let me put the mule up". Logan walked over to a locked out building (Herb's) and said "the still is in here". '
A story quote from that time: 'Logan came to my grandpa's house and said "Herb, we need to go bust up a still", grandpa was plowing the garden and replied, "Let me put the mule up". Logan walked over to a locked out building (Herb's) and said "the still is in here". '
See this website for more info, (not a link): www.odmp.org/officer/9484-investigator-james-logan-molloy
The Molloy family and Laura Cook family became friends as both had family as students at Burritt College, and attended church together at Spencer church of Christ. Logan Molloy decided to sell his Breezy Hill house and small farm to Laura Cook in January 1923. Logan Molloy apparently wanted the home base for his prohibition agent work to be at near-by McMinnville, TN. He also held other law enforcement positions there in later years.
Some pictures from the spring of 1923 when the Laura Cook family now owned Breezy Hill.
The Laura Cook family was from a farm in Bedford County TN and had moved to Spencer so that the now high school age family members could go to a Christian school at Burritt College. The Cook student daughters at Burritt were Erin, Elizabeth, and Daisy Cook, and the Cook student son was Clifford Cook. Older family sons and daughters stayed behind in Bedford County or had married. The mother Laura Cook was a widow. Her husband Cass Cook had died from a farm accident in Bedford County in 1908, leaving Laura with 11 children total of various ages.
To pay for the purchase of the Breezy Hill house it was necessary to use the large house as a boarding house for Burritt student girls. Student girls stayed in the five upstairs bedrooms, two per room, while Laura and family stayed downstairs. Operating as a boarding house required lots of cooking, firewood, gardening, orchard, canning, drawing water from well with long rope and bucket, washing clothes by hand, milk cow, chickens, pigs, horse and mule, etc, with no electric power except drop cord lights. Clifford being the only son there had a heavy workload providing firewood, etc and being the young man of the house and also a Burritt student. Erin married a Burritt student and moved away after graduation. Elizabeth and Daisy were the Cook girls that were both students and also helping their mother Laura Cook with boarding house operation. With the house being close to Burritt College campus, sometimes student boys would also come to eat meals at Breezy Hill. The Breezy Hill house was an active extension of some of the Burritt students who visited there friends there.
Daisy Cook in a white dress and hat enjoying living at Breezy Hill, 1923.
Daisy in swing in yard
Daisy in swing in yard
Daisy
Daisy
Daisy Cook, friend Calla Mae, Elizabeth Cook
Daisy Cook, friend Calla Mae, Elizabeth Cook
1920s
Burritt girls basketball team 1923, Daisy on left
Burritt girls basketball team 1923, Daisy on left
Burrritt girls tennis team, Daisy and Elizabeth on left, Alberta Russell, ?,?
Burrritt girls tennis team, Daisy and Elizabeth on left, Alberta Russell, ?,?
Daisy Cook and Hillard Molloy
Daisy Cook and Hillard Molloy
Burritt College
Burritt College
Burritt was active 1848 to 1939
Daisy and sister Elizabeth at boarding house called The Mansion at Burritt
Daisy and sister Elizabeth at boarding house called The Mansion at Burritt
Laura Cook lived here 2 years as a boarding house mother, with her family, before moving to the Breezy Hill house.
Aerial photo of Spencer in 1939 in Burritt College vicinity
Erin, Elizabeth, and Daisy Cook at New Zion Church of Christ in Bedford County before moving to Spencer
Erin, Elizabeth, and Daisy Cook at New Zion Church of Christ in Bedford County before moving to Spencer
Laura Cook ( on left in picture to right) and Burritt College teacher Mrs Hayes (right and below) standing in front yard flower area at Breezy Hill house, 1920s.
See this ad from the Burritt College 'Sparks from the Anvil' paper, March 1925. Notice the "BREEZY HILL" Cook House boarding house ad, along with other places in Spencer at the time.
See this ad from the Burritt College 'Sparks from the Anvil' paper, March 1925. Notice the "BREEZY HILL" Cook House boarding house ad, along with other places in Spencer at the time.
Following are some pictures at nearby Burritt College, within easy walking distance of Breezy Hill house.
Laura Cook, kneeling on right, as house mother at "Mansion" boarding house on Burritt campus about 1921.
Laura Cook, kneeling on right, as house mother at "Mansion" boarding house on Burritt campus about 1921.
Daughters Erin and Daisy Cook are notated.
Picture taken in Sunday clothes after church.
Daisy Cook in Burritt girls uniform at Burritt
Daisy Cook in Burritt girls uniform at Burritt
Daisy Cook, back left, on campus at Burritt July 4, 1923
Daisy Cook, back left, on campus at Burritt July 4, 1923
Left is a picture carousel of some Burritt College pictures of the time in the 1920s.
Left is a picture carousel of some Burritt College pictures of the time in the 1920s.
Scroll through the pictures with the side arrows.
Below is a picture carousel of the Cook family on the farm in Bedford County between Shelbyville and Murfreesboro TN before moving to Spencer. Scroll the arrows.
Below is a picture carousel of the Cook family on the farm in Bedford County between Shelbyville and Murfreesboro TN before moving to Spencer. Scroll the arrows.
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