April 18, 2014 Coats Museum News
Read the following news article to see if you recognize the names of the officers in the Coats Council of JOUAM in 1948. The men elected were R. Hal Smith-junior past councilor, Carl L. Hough-councilor, J.W. Robertson-vice councilor, C.T. Williams-Chaplain, H.G. Powell-recording secretary, J.D. Norris-assistant recording secretary, George H. Stephenson-assistant treasurer, J.D. Lowell-conductor, Jesse R. Mann-warden, Edward Byrd-inside sentinel, Charlie Williams, M.O. Phillips, and J.J. Benner-trustees, and R. Hal Smith and Cecil Fuquay-representatives to the state convention.
While the Coats men were involved in their organization, the young females in the Coats Jr. Woman’s Club were winning the “Attendance Award” at the district convention. The club was one of the newest in the district (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 29, 1948).
News was being made outside of the Coats city limits. Neill McKay Salmon of Lillington spoke at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church. The Harnett attorney was chairman of the “Program of Progress” campaign. Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Bailey announced the birth of a daughter at Dunn Hospital. The mother was the former Mildred Turlington. Campbell College had returned to football in 1946 after a five-year absence. Ed Nichols, son of W.E. Nichols and Eva Nichols, played both fullback and tailback. Ed attended high school at Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia (Dunn Dispatch Oct. 1, 1948).
After a late start because of the polio epidemic in the county, the Coats School was now open and the PTA had picked Mrs. Della (L. Marvin) Johnson president for 1948-49. The Grove jurors summoned for criminal cases were Darnell Jones, Rudolph Ennis, Carlos Stewart, and Edwin Penny and on the November 22 list were Robert Turlington, Rupert Parrish, and Cleo Cummings (Dunn Dispatch Oct. 6, 1948).
A Coats group got quick action to raise money for the Coats Community Building. The Fellowship Club raised $215.00 in ten minutes. M.O. Phillips reported that $1,000.00 was needed from the clubs to start erecting the Community Club. Each club was to raise $200.00. Other area news was that the county’s fifteenth polio victim was from Coats. Dr. Martin E. Jones reported that 10-month-old Jerry Denning, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Denning, was a polio victim; and Neal Barnes of Coats was picked vice president of the Harnett County Federation of FFA clubs of which there were eight schools represented (Dunn Dispatch Oct. 8, 1948).
The conditions were conducive for forest fires so Warden T.J. Turlington required permits to burn brush in the Coats area (Dunn Dispatch October 11, 1948).
Miss Flora Estelle McNeill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Angus McNeill of Bunnlevel, was engaged to Walter H. Wood, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Parlia Wood of Coats (Dunn Dispatch October 22, 1948.
Henry Turlington’s hog was the largest at the 1948 N.C. State Fair. The hog was a Duroc Jersey and weighed 1080 pounds. Mr. Henry was known for his blue ribbon hogs. He was also known for his hog killings. He would fill up the trees with slaughtered hogs down at Turlington’s Crossroads (Dunn Dispatch October 25, 1948). Folks-that is over half of a ton!
H.L. and I recently enjoyed eating with Harry Matthews and Rev. Jesse and Peggy Mooney at the Coats Methodist Church fundraiser for missions. Jesse shared his memories of hog killings in his home area in the Oxford area where he said that hog killings were a community event. Everyone would assemble to help a neighbor and then they would assemble at later dates to help until all the neighbors’ had had hog killings. He said that the families there would hang the hogs in the trees also. Rev. Mooney recalled that they would roll the slaughtered hogs over with a rope in the scalding vat rather than using chains. He also remembered that they did not use powdered rosin but something else from the pine tree.
Something else I learned at fundraiser came from Harry Matthews who also grew up in a family where a hog killing was a major cold weather event. He recalled that his dad would always shut up at least one hog and feed it corn for about four weeks so his mother could have a corned ham at Christmas.
The Democratic precinct chairs and committees were picked in Harnett County. In Grove 1, Everett Barnes was chair and Mrs. Bernard Hudson, Mrs. H.C. Avery and Mrs. T.O. Beasley were on the committee. From Grove 2, Mr. W.E. Nichols, was the chair and Mrs. Allene T. Honeycutt, Mrs. W.E. Nichols, C.E. Pollard, H.T. Roberts, H.A. Turlington, Jr., and Tony Stewart (Dunn Dispatch October 25, 1948).
Miss Effie Pearl Beasley, daughter of Mrs. Rhoda Beasley and the late Mr. Beasley, announced her engagement to Graham Young Turlington, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Turlington on November 20th.
Sad news was sent to Coats when T.V. Allen, 50, of Benson had died from injuries he had suffered from a fall from a wagon. His daughter was Mrs. Mack Byrd and sister was Mrs. Penny Lee. His funeral was held at Oliver’s Grove Baptist with burial in the church cemetery (Dunn Dispatch November 1, 1948).
The Democrats won with a great majority. Carson Gregory won the county commission seat and Howard Parker was voted to a state house seat (Dunn Dispatch November 3, 1948).
Around 175 guests called on the W.E. Nichols home in Coats when they entertained at a reception for their son Edmond B. Nichols and his new bride, Joyce Cissel Nichols of Washington, D.C. (Dunn Dispatch November 5, 1948). The Nichols family lived in how many houses in Coats? Do you know in which house the reception party was held?
Harnett County and the Upper Cape Fear Soil Conservation District distributed 13,000 blue brim fingerlings to 12 Harnett farmers for stocking their ponds. Buck Turlington, J.T. (T.J. ?) Barnes, F.A. Turlington, A.W. Slaughter and Audrey Wood were several whose ponds were stocked.
The same edition of the paper reported the Turlington HD Club had won a 25-dollar savings bond for being an outstanding club at the “Achievement Day for HD Clubs”. Mrs. Woodrow R. Langdon was president. A dress revue was held at the home of Mrs. John Wolf. Mrs. L.W. Turner won first place for street dress; Mrs. H.A. Turlington won first in house dress and Mrs. M.S. Whittington won for best apron. The winners later competed with county winners in other clubs. Down in Dunn, Miss Alice Lou Jackson (Roberts) celebrated her birthday with 65 of her friends (Dunn Dispatch November 8, 1948).
Several local clubs and individuals have made annual pledges to the Coats Museum to retire the mortgage on the exhibit hall. A special thank you goes to the Lions Club treasurer, Tommy Ennis, for delivering the club’s 2014 pledge. Thank you to Becky Adams for giving to the Coats Museum Endowment to honor H.L Sorrell’s birthday and for honoring the memory of William Marshall Wright with a donation to the museum.
Becky has spent hours scanning dozens of pictures belonging to Hilda Pope. Some of these very old photos are of the Williams, Pope, Dorman, and Ennis families. Hilda‘s mother, Sheba Williams, had preserved the photos in scrapbooks. Thanks- Hilda.
Baxter Ennis, Retired Lt. Col., drove down from Chesapeake, VA. to bring his uniform and many other items that the volunteers look forward to displaying for the interest of those who recall his role as a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne’s while in Panama, Desert Storm and Iraq. Baxter is so proud to be from our small town area which was evident by his sharing a couple of hours at the museum before heading back to VA.
Read the following news article to see if you recognize the names of the officers in the Coats Council of JOUAM in 1948. The men elected were R. Hal Smith-junior past councilor, Carl L. Hough-councilor, J.W. Robertson-vice councilor, C.T. Williams-Chaplain, H.G. Powell-recording secretary, J.D. Norris-assistant recording secretary, George H. Stephenson-assistant treasurer, J.D. Lowell-conductor, Jesse R. Mann-warden, Edward Byrd-inside sentinel, Charlie Williams, M.O. Phillips, and J.J. Benner-trustees, and R. Hal Smith and Cecil Fuquay-representatives to the state convention.
While the Coats men were involved in their organization, the young females in the Coats Jr. Woman’s Club were winning the “Attendance Award” at the district convention. The club was one of the newest in the district (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 29, 1948).
News was being made outside of the Coats city limits. Neill McKay Salmon of Lillington spoke at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church. The Harnett attorney was chairman of the “Program of Progress” campaign. Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Bailey announced the birth of a daughter at Dunn Hospital. The mother was the former Mildred Turlington. Campbell College had returned to football in 1946 after a five-year absence. Ed Nichols, son of W.E. Nichols and Eva Nichols, played both fullback and tailback. Ed attended high school at Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia (Dunn Dispatch Oct. 1, 1948).
After a late start because of the polio epidemic in the county, the Coats School was now open and the PTA had picked Mrs. Della (L. Marvin) Johnson president for 1948-49. The Grove jurors summoned for criminal cases were Darnell Jones, Rudolph Ennis, Carlos Stewart, and Edwin Penny and on the November 22 list were Robert Turlington, Rupert Parrish, and Cleo Cummings (Dunn Dispatch Oct. 6, 1948).
A Coats group got quick action to raise money for the Coats Community Building. The Fellowship Club raised $215.00 in ten minutes. M.O. Phillips reported that $1,000.00 was needed from the clubs to start erecting the Community Club. Each club was to raise $200.00. Other area news was that the county’s fifteenth polio victim was from Coats. Dr. Martin E. Jones reported that 10-month-old Jerry Denning, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Denning, was a polio victim; and Neal Barnes of Coats was picked vice president of the Harnett County Federation of FFA clubs of which there were eight schools represented (Dunn Dispatch Oct. 8, 1948).
The conditions were conducive for forest fires so Warden T.J. Turlington required permits to burn brush in the Coats area (Dunn Dispatch October 11, 1948).
Miss Flora Estelle McNeill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Angus McNeill of Bunnlevel, was engaged to Walter H. Wood, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Parlia Wood of Coats (Dunn Dispatch October 22, 1948.
Henry Turlington’s hog was the largest at the 1948 N.C. State Fair. The hog was a Duroc Jersey and weighed 1080 pounds. Mr. Henry was known for his blue ribbon hogs. He was also known for his hog killings. He would fill up the trees with slaughtered hogs down at Turlington’s Crossroads (Dunn Dispatch October 25, 1948). Folks-that is over half of a ton!
H.L. and I recently enjoyed eating with Harry Matthews and Rev. Jesse and Peggy Mooney at the Coats Methodist Church fundraiser for missions. Jesse shared his memories of hog killings in his home area in the Oxford area where he said that hog killings were a community event. Everyone would assemble to help a neighbor and then they would assemble at later dates to help until all the neighbors’ had had hog killings. He said that the families there would hang the hogs in the trees also. Rev. Mooney recalled that they would roll the slaughtered hogs over with a rope in the scalding vat rather than using chains. He also remembered that they did not use powdered rosin but something else from the pine tree.
Something else I learned at fundraiser came from Harry Matthews who also grew up in a family where a hog killing was a major cold weather event. He recalled that his dad would always shut up at least one hog and feed it corn for about four weeks so his mother could have a corned ham at Christmas.
The Democratic precinct chairs and committees were picked in Harnett County. In Grove 1, Everett Barnes was chair and Mrs. Bernard Hudson, Mrs. H.C. Avery and Mrs. T.O. Beasley were on the committee. From Grove 2, Mr. W.E. Nichols, was the chair and Mrs. Allene T. Honeycutt, Mrs. W.E. Nichols, C.E. Pollard, H.T. Roberts, H.A. Turlington, Jr., and Tony Stewart (Dunn Dispatch October 25, 1948).
Miss Effie Pearl Beasley, daughter of Mrs. Rhoda Beasley and the late Mr. Beasley, announced her engagement to Graham Young Turlington, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Turlington on November 20th.
Sad news was sent to Coats when T.V. Allen, 50, of Benson had died from injuries he had suffered from a fall from a wagon. His daughter was Mrs. Mack Byrd and sister was Mrs. Penny Lee. His funeral was held at Oliver’s Grove Baptist with burial in the church cemetery (Dunn Dispatch November 1, 1948).
The Democrats won with a great majority. Carson Gregory won the county commission seat and Howard Parker was voted to a state house seat (Dunn Dispatch November 3, 1948).
Around 175 guests called on the W.E. Nichols home in Coats when they entertained at a reception for their son Edmond B. Nichols and his new bride, Joyce Cissel Nichols of Washington, D.C. (Dunn Dispatch November 5, 1948). The Nichols family lived in how many houses in Coats? Do you know in which house the reception party was held?
Harnett County and the Upper Cape Fear Soil Conservation District distributed 13,000 blue brim fingerlings to 12 Harnett farmers for stocking their ponds. Buck Turlington, J.T. (T.J. ?) Barnes, F.A. Turlington, A.W. Slaughter and Audrey Wood were several whose ponds were stocked.
The same edition of the paper reported the Turlington HD Club had won a 25-dollar savings bond for being an outstanding club at the “Achievement Day for HD Clubs”. Mrs. Woodrow R. Langdon was president. A dress revue was held at the home of Mrs. John Wolf. Mrs. L.W. Turner won first place for street dress; Mrs. H.A. Turlington won first in house dress and Mrs. M.S. Whittington won for best apron. The winners later competed with county winners in other clubs. Down in Dunn, Miss Alice Lou Jackson (Roberts) celebrated her birthday with 65 of her friends (Dunn Dispatch November 8, 1948).
Several local clubs and individuals have made annual pledges to the Coats Museum to retire the mortgage on the exhibit hall. A special thank you goes to the Lions Club treasurer, Tommy Ennis, for delivering the club’s 2014 pledge. Thank you to Becky Adams for giving to the Coats Museum Endowment to honor H.L Sorrell’s birthday and for honoring the memory of William Marshall Wright with a donation to the museum.
Becky has spent hours scanning dozens of pictures belonging to Hilda Pope. Some of these very old photos are of the Williams, Pope, Dorman, and Ennis families. Hilda‘s mother, Sheba Williams, had preserved the photos in scrapbooks. Thanks- Hilda.
Baxter Ennis, Retired Lt. Col., drove down from Chesapeake, VA. to bring his uniform and many other items that the volunteers look forward to displaying for the interest of those who recall his role as a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne’s while in Panama, Desert Storm and Iraq. Baxter is so proud to be from our small town area which was evident by his sharing a couple of hours at the museum before heading back to VA.