August 3, 2014 Coats Museum News
What do Eastwood Turlington and Richard Sorrell have in common? Both of the local, young men had left home to attend universities and both later became doctors. Eastwood attended UNC at Chapel Hill and Richard went to Duke University. While their families saw the young men off the college, an Ennis family from Benson, had planned the funeral of Mrs. Lissie Ennis, 48, who had died in a Raleigh Hospital on Monday night. She was buried in the Ennis cemetery near Bailey’s Crossroads. Her sons were Floyd, Lovett, and Donald Lee Ennis. Mrs. Branson Godwin, Mrs. Joe Wells, and Mrs. Charlie Jenkins were surviving daughters. Mrs. Ennis had six stepchildren; Carlie, Stevie, Onslow, and Harvey Ennis, and Mrs. Jesse Lee and Mrs. Herbert Paschal (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 9, 1949).
Mrs. Anne Stout and Mrs. Allene Turlington entertained Miss Dot Creech, bride-elect. About 30 guests enjoyed bridge, Rook, and Old Maid. While the ladies from the Turlington’s Crossroads talked wedding, likely Jesse A. Raynor and Hosea Godwin talked about their summons for jury duty (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 9, 1949).
Miss Doris Johnson spent several days with her Aunt Mary Penny Coats. Mrs. Christine Stewart Akerman had returned home from Florida. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Nina A. Akerman, would accompany her to Japan in October, had returned to Coats with her. Rev. W.B. Royal and his wife had spent time with the W. E. Nichols family. Addie Pope returned from Jacksonville, Florida where she had visited friends.
Many other Coats folks had traveled within and out of the state. Mrs. T.O. Beasley visited Portsmouth, VA. Miss Toby Surles motored to White Lake; Miss Gloria Roycroft visited her sister, Mrs. Helen Rode in Florida, and Mrs. Paul Fish visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stewart. Ann Beasley celebrated her 7th birthday (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 12, 1949).
Miss Alda Juanita Ogburn married Mack Reid Hudson at her home in Willow Springs on August 27. Juanita was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Milliard Ogburn. Mack was the son of Mrs. Naomi Stewart Hudson and the late Bernard Hudson. Rev. Luther Turner officiated. Jeanine Ennis and Evangeline Stewart presented music. Margorie Ogburn was maid of honor while James Ogburn gave his sister in marriage. Jarvis Lee was best man. Mrs. Hudson was a graduate of Cleveland High School and attended Massey College in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Hudson graduated from Coats High School and Oakridge Military Academy (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 12, 1949). Do you recognize those names? When the family celebrated the couple’s anniversary in 1999, over 500 people attended the 50th anniversary celebration at Bailey’s Crossroads. Have you seen their beautiful exhibits in the Coats Museum?
The cotton crop of 1949 was not a good one. Rains, boll weevil infestation, and worms cut the profits by 1.5 million dollars. The shortage was 10,000 bales valued at $150.00 per bale. John L. Sorrell told Haywood Barnes to let’s talk turkey. They did and Sorrell bought 2,000 turkeys from Barnes. The James L. Pollard family of Coats could have tied a blue ribbon on their mailbox for their son. Who knows his name?
Did they put ribbons on mailboxes to announce the arrival of a new baby in 1949? This I do know. A pound of fatback sold for only 14 cents per pound and sugar cost 45 cents for five pounds in 1949. There were a few sick people in the Coats community. At least these names appeared as being patients at the Dunn Hospital: Colon West, Clyde Turlington, Mrs. Inez Poole, and Haywood Barnes. Wasn’t he the farmer who just sold his 2,000 turkeys to John Sorrell (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 14, 1949)?
County Commissioner Carson Gregory was a big winner at the swine and cattle exhibits at the county fair. However, his children might have felt like bigger winners when they went to Carolina Beach with their family and the Harvey Williams family. H.A. Turlington, Jr. was also a winner of a first prize for a Jersey heifer at the county fair. Do you associate the Turlington family more as winners in the swine competition?
Mrs. W.E. Nichols took a few days away from her busy civic work to visit her sister, Mrs. Ben Adams. She also visited her daughter, Mrs. Tommy Byrne, of Wake Forest. Was Tommy not pitching for the New York Yankees in 1949? Mrs. Tenia Ennis and Mrs. Polly May visited Mrs. Sally Honeycutt. Also on the road were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hough with Mr. and Mrs. L. Marvin Johnson. They visited the Hough’s son, Joel, who had entered TMI as a student. Miss Annie Celia Honeycutt had said yes to a proposal from a certain Mr. Wooten of Dunn. The bride-elect was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Artemus Nye Honeycutt of Coats. Jesse was the son Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Allen Wooten of Dunn (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 16, 1949). Recall that Celia had been an outstanding leader in her graduating class at Coats.
Mrs. Christine Akerman was moving to Japan and her 27-foot Chicago Streamline Trailer was up for sale at a sacrifice price. Miss Laura Frances Sorrell was honored at a dinner given by Mrs. Henry Whittington. Mrs. Fred Fleming entertained the doctors’ wives at Coats where they enjoyed strawberry ice cream pie. We know Coats had had electric lights for several years now, but did Dr. Fleming have inside bathrooms? Remember the voters had rejected water and sewer in the town.
The Turlington HD Club was entertained at the home of Mrs. Zola Roberts. Her daughter, Mrs. Garland Johnson, assisted. Mrs. James Robertson presided and Mrs. Ted Malone was a guest. Wonder if the ladies were aware that an entire living room suite could be purchased for $124.75 in 1949 at Purdie Equipment in Dunn?
Would fancy pillows to decorate the chairs cost more than that today? I do know that Mrs. Bernard Hudson and Mrs. Tom Nordan entertained 50 guests for Juanita Ogburn Hudson, the recent bride of Mack Reid Hudson (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 19, 1949).
We have been giving tours of the museums to visitors from far and near. Dr. Bill Beckett, his wife Stephanie and his young children Henry and Emily visited from the Southeastern Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Alabama. Bill’s mother, Alice Johnson, graduated from Coats High School in 1947 where she was the recipient of several honors. Bill brought his family to Coats to visit family, to see the area their Grandmother Alice’s ancestors had come to in Cumberland (Harnett) as early as 1781 and to visit Duke University where Bill had graduated before going to Tulane University. Bill and his brother, Tom Beckett from Lyons, Colorado, were Gold Plaque Sponsors for the Coats Centennial Project in 2005.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. (Ret.) Baxter Ennis and his wife Glenda from Chesapeake, VA visited the museum after attending the Ennis Reunion. Many of the Ennis clan from as far away as Ontario, Canada also dropped in. Baxter has shared many display items from his collection from his service as the Public Relations Officer for the 82nd Airborne during the Desert Storm. His cousin, Larry Ennis of Dunn, a veteran of the Vietnam War, is going to share items he saved from that war.
Many of the direct descendants of Sam Pope came in great numbers after a family celebration at the community building and we hope their visit will result in many new family stories and family trees of that prominent family. Mike Tocci of Sparks, NV and his Aunt Joann Phillips from Fuquay came and added the final touches to his dad’s WWII paratrooper’s uniform on display. We also enjoyed a group from the Neill’s Creek Baptist Church and loved hearing about their memories of some of the items on displays.
If you are in Coats on a Thursday, drop by the museum between 9 and 3:00 and let us give you a trip down memory lane.
What do Eastwood Turlington and Richard Sorrell have in common? Both of the local, young men had left home to attend universities and both later became doctors. Eastwood attended UNC at Chapel Hill and Richard went to Duke University. While their families saw the young men off the college, an Ennis family from Benson, had planned the funeral of Mrs. Lissie Ennis, 48, who had died in a Raleigh Hospital on Monday night. She was buried in the Ennis cemetery near Bailey’s Crossroads. Her sons were Floyd, Lovett, and Donald Lee Ennis. Mrs. Branson Godwin, Mrs. Joe Wells, and Mrs. Charlie Jenkins were surviving daughters. Mrs. Ennis had six stepchildren; Carlie, Stevie, Onslow, and Harvey Ennis, and Mrs. Jesse Lee and Mrs. Herbert Paschal (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 9, 1949).
Mrs. Anne Stout and Mrs. Allene Turlington entertained Miss Dot Creech, bride-elect. About 30 guests enjoyed bridge, Rook, and Old Maid. While the ladies from the Turlington’s Crossroads talked wedding, likely Jesse A. Raynor and Hosea Godwin talked about their summons for jury duty (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 9, 1949).
Miss Doris Johnson spent several days with her Aunt Mary Penny Coats. Mrs. Christine Stewart Akerman had returned home from Florida. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Nina A. Akerman, would accompany her to Japan in October, had returned to Coats with her. Rev. W.B. Royal and his wife had spent time with the W. E. Nichols family. Addie Pope returned from Jacksonville, Florida where she had visited friends.
Many other Coats folks had traveled within and out of the state. Mrs. T.O. Beasley visited Portsmouth, VA. Miss Toby Surles motored to White Lake; Miss Gloria Roycroft visited her sister, Mrs. Helen Rode in Florida, and Mrs. Paul Fish visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stewart. Ann Beasley celebrated her 7th birthday (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 12, 1949).
Miss Alda Juanita Ogburn married Mack Reid Hudson at her home in Willow Springs on August 27. Juanita was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Milliard Ogburn. Mack was the son of Mrs. Naomi Stewart Hudson and the late Bernard Hudson. Rev. Luther Turner officiated. Jeanine Ennis and Evangeline Stewart presented music. Margorie Ogburn was maid of honor while James Ogburn gave his sister in marriage. Jarvis Lee was best man. Mrs. Hudson was a graduate of Cleveland High School and attended Massey College in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Hudson graduated from Coats High School and Oakridge Military Academy (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 12, 1949). Do you recognize those names? When the family celebrated the couple’s anniversary in 1999, over 500 people attended the 50th anniversary celebration at Bailey’s Crossroads. Have you seen their beautiful exhibits in the Coats Museum?
The cotton crop of 1949 was not a good one. Rains, boll weevil infestation, and worms cut the profits by 1.5 million dollars. The shortage was 10,000 bales valued at $150.00 per bale. John L. Sorrell told Haywood Barnes to let’s talk turkey. They did and Sorrell bought 2,000 turkeys from Barnes. The James L. Pollard family of Coats could have tied a blue ribbon on their mailbox for their son. Who knows his name?
Did they put ribbons on mailboxes to announce the arrival of a new baby in 1949? This I do know. A pound of fatback sold for only 14 cents per pound and sugar cost 45 cents for five pounds in 1949. There were a few sick people in the Coats community. At least these names appeared as being patients at the Dunn Hospital: Colon West, Clyde Turlington, Mrs. Inez Poole, and Haywood Barnes. Wasn’t he the farmer who just sold his 2,000 turkeys to John Sorrell (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 14, 1949)?
County Commissioner Carson Gregory was a big winner at the swine and cattle exhibits at the county fair. However, his children might have felt like bigger winners when they went to Carolina Beach with their family and the Harvey Williams family. H.A. Turlington, Jr. was also a winner of a first prize for a Jersey heifer at the county fair. Do you associate the Turlington family more as winners in the swine competition?
Mrs. W.E. Nichols took a few days away from her busy civic work to visit her sister, Mrs. Ben Adams. She also visited her daughter, Mrs. Tommy Byrne, of Wake Forest. Was Tommy not pitching for the New York Yankees in 1949? Mrs. Tenia Ennis and Mrs. Polly May visited Mrs. Sally Honeycutt. Also on the road were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hough with Mr. and Mrs. L. Marvin Johnson. They visited the Hough’s son, Joel, who had entered TMI as a student. Miss Annie Celia Honeycutt had said yes to a proposal from a certain Mr. Wooten of Dunn. The bride-elect was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Artemus Nye Honeycutt of Coats. Jesse was the son Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Allen Wooten of Dunn (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 16, 1949). Recall that Celia had been an outstanding leader in her graduating class at Coats.
Mrs. Christine Akerman was moving to Japan and her 27-foot Chicago Streamline Trailer was up for sale at a sacrifice price. Miss Laura Frances Sorrell was honored at a dinner given by Mrs. Henry Whittington. Mrs. Fred Fleming entertained the doctors’ wives at Coats where they enjoyed strawberry ice cream pie. We know Coats had had electric lights for several years now, but did Dr. Fleming have inside bathrooms? Remember the voters had rejected water and sewer in the town.
The Turlington HD Club was entertained at the home of Mrs. Zola Roberts. Her daughter, Mrs. Garland Johnson, assisted. Mrs. James Robertson presided and Mrs. Ted Malone was a guest. Wonder if the ladies were aware that an entire living room suite could be purchased for $124.75 in 1949 at Purdie Equipment in Dunn?
Would fancy pillows to decorate the chairs cost more than that today? I do know that Mrs. Bernard Hudson and Mrs. Tom Nordan entertained 50 guests for Juanita Ogburn Hudson, the recent bride of Mack Reid Hudson (Dunn Dispatch Sept. 19, 1949).
We have been giving tours of the museums to visitors from far and near. Dr. Bill Beckett, his wife Stephanie and his young children Henry and Emily visited from the Southeastern Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Alabama. Bill’s mother, Alice Johnson, graduated from Coats High School in 1947 where she was the recipient of several honors. Bill brought his family to Coats to visit family, to see the area their Grandmother Alice’s ancestors had come to in Cumberland (Harnett) as early as 1781 and to visit Duke University where Bill had graduated before going to Tulane University. Bill and his brother, Tom Beckett from Lyons, Colorado, were Gold Plaque Sponsors for the Coats Centennial Project in 2005.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. (Ret.) Baxter Ennis and his wife Glenda from Chesapeake, VA visited the museum after attending the Ennis Reunion. Many of the Ennis clan from as far away as Ontario, Canada also dropped in. Baxter has shared many display items from his collection from his service as the Public Relations Officer for the 82nd Airborne during the Desert Storm. His cousin, Larry Ennis of Dunn, a veteran of the Vietnam War, is going to share items he saved from that war.
Many of the direct descendants of Sam Pope came in great numbers after a family celebration at the community building and we hope their visit will result in many new family stories and family trees of that prominent family. Mike Tocci of Sparks, NV and his Aunt Joann Phillips from Fuquay came and added the final touches to his dad’s WWII paratrooper’s uniform on display. We also enjoyed a group from the Neill’s Creek Baptist Church and loved hearing about their memories of some of the items on displays.
If you are in Coats on a Thursday, drop by the museum between 9 and 3:00 and let us give you a trip down memory lane.