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GRANDPA TRYON continued from 33
W. E.“ Ed” Tryon also played at Saturday night barn dances in Helmsburg, played with Doc Biesel’ s band on the radio, and played with Roy Houchins’ band on the back of a flat-bed truck at the Bean Blossom Jamboree, the precursor to the Bill Monroe Festival.
“ He told me lots of stories about the folklore of the time. There were always some kind of ghost stories going around and people were very superstitious,” Uncle Bob said.
Included in those superstitions, according to family lore, was the belief that grandpa could“ take the fire out of burns” by blowing on them,“ because he had never seen his father.” He would be called away to people’ s homes for this purpose.
As bizarre as this sounded to me when first heard, I have since come across a citation in a book called Kentucky Superstitions by Daniel Lindsey which relates that,“ thrush in a child can be cured if a person who has never seen his father will blow his breath three times into the child’ s face for three days.”
W. E. died in 1938. He is buried with Rilda at the Wesleyan Church cemetery in Spearsville.
He lived and died in and around Brown County, but we really know precious little about him, except that he named Peoga— no small claim to fame.
But why“ Peoga”? Where the heck did that come from?
It is instructive to do a map search of the area around his birthplace, in Findley, Illinois. Not too far away lies the little town of“ Neoga.” •
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