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Originally Posted by Johnny
Hi I was born in Jonesville, La. And I have noticed others on AFF that are fron the great state of La. I know Sis Alvear is. and I wonder if she knows of others from there.
Sister Alvear: I was born in Jonesville, La. Harris family. Mabel Hardy is my Aunt and Clifford Harris is my Uncle. I was born in 1927. Alma Jeffery, Coleman, Harris was my cuz. My father was Archie Harris.. Friends in Jonesville were the C.B. Wiley
Any one from Louisiana jump in and say hi.  |
This is the first time that I have looked in on this forum for many months. This caught my attention.
Yes, I am from Jonesville but I left there when I was quite young, leaving many friends and family members there. Many have passed away but there are still some cousins and long time friends that still live there.
My father and his immediate family were some of the founding members of the First Pentecostal Church in the 1930s. I still remember some of the wonderful people that attended that church back in the 1940s. There were the Kings, the Tarvers, the DeLeost and Wiley families among many others. I have family members still in that church.
My Dad with his older brother was a moonshiner but soon got the Holy Ghost under the ministry of brother Hemphill who was in the community conducting cottage prayer meetings. My Dad was the first to receive the Holy Ghost but shortly afterwards almost all of his large family received the Holy Ghost except his Dad who was killed in a hail of gun fire down-town Jonesville only a year earlier.
I started school with Murrell Ewing in the first grade across the street at Block Elem school where my Dad also started school in the 19 teens. I will never forget one of my teachers there by the Majorie Smith. She hated "the Holy Rollers" and very often made fun of us...especially me.
Before I moved with my immediate family, we lived on Little River very near the Tarpley family. The Tarpleys were such good friends that as a young child I thught that Howard Tarpley was my cousin and that his mama was my aunt. We farmed cotten which we picked by hand. Those were the (not so) good ol' days but the glory of God was so much nearer the earth in those days. The glory of the Lord has greatly lifted up from the earth heavenward since then.
After Brother Clarence Wiley died from being thrown from a horse and after my mother died, my Dad married his widow whom we called "Little Mama." Bother my Dad and mother have long since departed this continent for a distant shore where all is peace and joy...in a land where rules a Righteous Governor, the King of Kings.
Incidently, John Allen Coleman is my age. They lived next door to my grandmother in 1948.
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