August 10, 2014 Coats Museum News
Most people in Coats recognize the name of J.D. Norris because he was a former mayor and a delightful fellow to be around. He was selling Farm Bureau Insurance as an agent in 1949. Question-did Lloyd Hall sell insurance with him? This I do know. Several Coats families had guests during the last days of September. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wayne Stewart of Florida were visiting family. Mrs. Lessie Fox had Mrs. Ingram over for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Cade spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Williams.
The Fidelis Class of the Coats Baptist Church met with Mrs. Johnnie Barnes where Mrs. Reggie Parrish had presided. Mrs. A.C. Grimes had visited in Siler City with Mrs. T.H. Grimes. Angier’s Mrs. Blanche Ogburn Dupree of the Coats School faculty sang at the Coats Baptist Church while Dr. Donald Moore gave an interesting program on China where he had been a medical missionary.
Question-do you think that the late Dr. Donald Moore ever knew the impact that he had on many lives? I would put naming a child after you would have to be one of the greatest honors to an individual. Devon Moore recently shared with H.L. that he had named his son, Donald Moore, after Dr. Donald Moore. The younger Donald Moore is now working as legal counsel with the U.S. State Department and has served at many American Embassies and is now making a name for himself for which the older Donald would surely be proud. Donald is currently at the embassy in Indonesia.
Over in Willow Springs, M.E. Langdon, 61, had died at his home. His brothers were Ellis Langdon of Coats, M.T. of Angier, and J.B. of Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.M. Willis, Mrs. Viola Dupree, Mrs. Floyd Hardy and Mrs. Walter Lassiter were his sisters. Have you noticed that the death announcements in giving sisters’ name. Some give husband’s name while others don’t? Did he have no wife or children?
Mr. and Mrs. Willie T. Dorman of Route 3, Dunn announced the birth of a son at Dunn Hospital. Mrs. Dorman was the former Muriel Buffkin. What was the child’s name? Interestingly, the paper carried the announcement of another birth. A picture of Ira Williams’s cow, “Old Betsy”, was printed because she gave birth to twin calves. With six children in the Williams family, they had need for lots of milk.
Elsewhere in the area, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron H. Godwin of Coats announced the birth of Shirley Diane Godwin on Tuesday, September 6 at the Fleming Clinic. The mother was the former Juanita Stewart of Benson. Many of you will recognize the name Shirley Godwin Allen as a busy volunteer who was selected as the CACC Humanitarian of the Year in 2013.
Dorothy Grimes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delma T. Grimes, was engaged to Richard Westbrook. While the Grimes family was likely jubilant that a wedding was on the horizon, the Jimmie Ennis family mourned his death. The 74-year –old man died after a brief illness. Reverends J.D. Capps and L.O. Matthews conducted the services. His wife, Mrs. Ida Ennis and four children survived him: M.E. Ennis and Hilton Ennis and Mrs. Andrew Cooper and Mrs. Lois Johnson. He was a lifelong resident of Harnett County (Dunn Dispatch September 23, 1949). The road by Mr. Ennis house was not completed because T.M. Stewart of the paper said that a road worker had told him that the Coats-Benson Road would not be completed this year. Wonder if that photographer was at the wedding of Miss Laura Frances Sorrell who had married J.A. Langdon, Jr. at the Hodges Chapel Church. She wore a street length dress royal blue satin dress with three quarters length sleeves and a bustle. J.A. and Laura both had graduated from Coats High School. She later attended Hoyle’s Business School and worked at the Dunn Dispatch.
Associations were a vital part of the Primitive Baptist Churches. Recall that Benjamin Frank Shaw of Florida wrote in 1919 about the association at New Hope in Troyville where thousands came prior when he was a young man. New Hope was also a subscription school at the turn of the 20th century. Wonder where this church is? It is the house on the left before Ma’s Grill as you leave Coats. Does that surprise you? What surprises me is that there was only the Raleigh Fayetteville Stage at that time and how did that accommodate the large number of carriages and wagons needed to transport thousands of people?
Are you wondering if Frank Shaw was a reliable source? I think so. His grandfather was Daniel Shaw who lived right where Coats is located today. He noted that his father, Major B.F. Shaw was born there
Most people in Coats recognize the name of J.D. Norris because he was a former mayor and a delightful fellow to be around. He was selling Farm Bureau Insurance as an agent in 1949. Question-did Lloyd Hall sell insurance with him? This I do know. Several Coats families had guests during the last days of September. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wayne Stewart of Florida were visiting family. Mrs. Lessie Fox had Mrs. Ingram over for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Cade spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Williams.
The Fidelis Class of the Coats Baptist Church met with Mrs. Johnnie Barnes where Mrs. Reggie Parrish had presided. Mrs. A.C. Grimes had visited in Siler City with Mrs. T.H. Grimes. Angier’s Mrs. Blanche Ogburn Dupree of the Coats School faculty sang at the Coats Baptist Church while Dr. Donald Moore gave an interesting program on China where he had been a medical missionary.
Question-do you think that the late Dr. Donald Moore ever knew the impact that he had on many lives? I would put naming a child after you would have to be one of the greatest honors to an individual. Devon Moore recently shared with H.L. that he had named his son, Donald Moore, after Dr. Donald Moore. The younger Donald Moore is now working as legal counsel with the U.S. State Department and has served at many American Embassies and is now making a name for himself for which the older Donald would surely be proud. Donald is currently at the embassy in Indonesia.
Over in Willow Springs, M.E. Langdon, 61, had died at his home. His brothers were Ellis Langdon of Coats, M.T. of Angier, and J.B. of Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.M. Willis, Mrs. Viola Dupree, Mrs. Floyd Hardy and Mrs. Walter Lassiter were his sisters. Have you noticed that the death announcements in giving sisters’ name. Some give husband’s name while others don’t? Did he have no wife or children?
Mr. and Mrs. Willie T. Dorman of Route 3, Dunn announced the birth of a son at Dunn Hospital. Mrs. Dorman was the former Muriel Buffkin. What was the child’s name? Interestingly, the paper carried the announcement of another birth. A picture of Ira Williams’s cow, “Old Betsy”, was printed because she gave birth to twin calves. With six children in the Williams family, they had need for lots of milk.
Elsewhere in the area, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron H. Godwin of Coats announced the birth of Shirley Diane Godwin on Tuesday, September 6 at the Fleming Clinic. The mother was the former Juanita Stewart of Benson. Many of you will recognize the name Shirley Godwin Allen as a busy volunteer who was selected as the CACC Humanitarian of the Year in 2013.
Dorothy Grimes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delma T. Grimes, was engaged to Richard Westbrook. While the Grimes family was likely jubilant that a wedding was on the horizon, the Jimmie Ennis family mourned his death. The 74-year –old man died after a brief illness. Reverends J.D. Capps and L.O. Matthews conducted the services. His wife, Mrs. Ida Ennis and four children survived him: M.E. Ennis and Hilton Ennis and Mrs. Andrew Cooper and Mrs. Lois Johnson. He was a lifelong resident of Harnett County (Dunn Dispatch September 23, 1949). The road by Mr. Ennis house was not completed because T.M. Stewart of the paper said that a road worker had told him that the Coats-Benson Road would not be completed this year. Wonder if that photographer was at the wedding of Miss Laura Frances Sorrell who had married J.A. Langdon, Jr. at the Hodges Chapel Church. She wore a street length dress royal blue satin dress with three quarters length sleeves and a bustle. J.A. and Laura both had graduated from Coats High School. She later attended Hoyle’s Business School and worked at the Dunn Dispatch.
Associations were a vital part of the Primitive Baptist Churches. Recall that Benjamin Frank Shaw of Florida wrote in 1919 about the association at New Hope in Troyville where thousands came prior when he was a young man. New Hope was also a subscription school at the turn of the 20th century. Wonder where this church is? It is the house on the left before Ma’s Grill as you leave Coats. Does that surprise you? What surprises me is that there was only the Raleigh Fayetteville Stage at that time and how did that accommodate the large number of carriages and wagons needed to transport thousands of people?
Are you wondering if Frank Shaw was a reliable source? I think so. His grandfather was Daniel Shaw who lived right where Coats is located today. He noted that his father, Major B.F. Shaw was born there