February 3, 2023 Coats Museum News
How many people live to be 100 years old? In 2022, there were 97,104 people in American who were centenarians. That is the highest absolute number in the world even though Japan has the highest rate of .06 percent of population who are 100 or older. In the last two decades there has been a 58% increase in people living to be 100 or older.
Three decades ago, not two, Mrs. H.A. Turlington, Sr. planned to celebrate her 100th birthday on Sunday, March 15th. Her friends were invited to visit with her. Wonder if her grandson, Bickett Wade Turlington, was excited about her big day? Surely he was excited that he would open his restaurant in Coats on Monday morning at 5:30.
Who recalls the days when that same building housed another restaurant where one could purchase a hamburger for a quarter and a hotdog for a dime from Mr. Luke Barefoot. Cokes and other soft drinks were a nickel. Curb service meant that a pretty girl or cool guy would come to your car and take the order and the customer never had to leave the car in hot, cold or rainy weather.
Question-did they have drive-thru windows in those days of the 50’s and 60’s?
This I do know. The Coats Town Commissioners voted to contribute $500 towards the purchase of Bradford pear trees to be planted along McKinley Street. Some 91 trees were to be planted as a project of the Coats Area Chamber of Commerce. The entire project was to cost approximately $5,000. Businesses as well as individuals and civic clubs were asked to contribute (Daily Record Mar. 13, 1992).
Do you wonder how many people dropped in to celebrate Mrs. Laylon Parrish Turlington’s 100th birthday? Over 225 guests stopped by her house and H.L. and I were two of those 225. She was such a beautiful lady and I promise you she did not look like what we think a one hundred year old lady should look. She definitely had longevity genes because her dad was Barty Parrish and he lived to be 96 years old and two of her brothers lived to be 93. Mrs. Turlington was mother to seven children.
Gina Ann Keene and David Christopher Martin were married at the Coats Baptist Church. Gina was the daughter of Kenneth and Elaine Keene of Coats (Daily Record Mar. 16, 1992). This is really ironic. Last Thursday the door to the museum opened and in walked Kenneth and Elaine Keene. We always enjoy his visits because he has 90 years of memories. Kenneth taught school at Lafayette, Lillington and Harnett Central. He actually taught with Becky Adams, our faithful board secretary and weekly volunteer. Kenneth came by to give us a copy of a 2019 Daily Record that he had saved of the Coats Museum News. The article had one picture of Dr. H. C. Roberts and another of H.L with his museum friends.
Congratulations were due to Beverly and Shelton McLamb who had celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at the Coats Community Building. Beverly was employed at the BB&T at Coats where she made m any friends.
Notes shared that Rebecca Cozart had been inducted into the Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges. Lane and Teresa Gregory welcomed a new baby into their family. Adam‘s new baby sister was Elizabeth.
I can’t think of the Gregory family without having good memories. When my father died in January of 1988, there was ice covered with snow and snow covered with more ice. Albert, Lane’s father, lived about two miles from my dad’s house but he was the first one there with his tractor and blade clearing the driveways. When H. L. died a few weeks ago, Lane came knocking bringing a coconut cake made from his mother Betty famous recipe. You can’t help but love those people.
The birthday party of Mrs. Turlington continued to make the news. She and Henry had been married 65 years and they were third cousins, both being great-great-grandchildren of William Coats, Sr. The Turlington home place was purchased from the Shaw family in 1839-2400 acres at a cost of 58 cents per acre (Daily Record March 16, 1992). Now you why there is a cement sign with 1839 on it near the Coats Erwin Middle School at the 4-Way Stop.
The Turlington brick house was built around 1948 by Melvin Turlington of Lillington and at one time I think had a low brick wall around it. Mr. Henry had a beautiful youngest daughter name Susan Turlington. Her beauty had caught the eye of my older brother JC. He had ask her for a date and when they were leaving, J.C. backed his 1954 88 Oldsmobile into that wall. Now that is the story but I will not guarantee the truthfulness of it.
Death visited the family of Edwin V. Bushy Stewart, 88, of Coats. He had died on Sunday and his funeral service was held at Rose and Graham Funeral Chapel in Coats by Rev. Ralph Byrd and Elder A.D. McGee. He was buried in the Williams Family Cemetery. His surviving children were Billy R. Stewart and Dorothy Deets of N.Y. Liffie Williams and Carlie Stewart were siblings (Daily Record Mar. 17, 1992).
Attorney N. Earl Jones, Jr. was honored as Business Focus of Week by the CACC. He was one of the founders of the CACC. In 1979, he opened his law office in Coats for a general practice. In 1989, he received the Chamber’s Man of the Year Award (Daily Record Mar. 19, 1992).
Last Thursday was a very busy day with board member Lenny Parker working away in the museum attic organizing the boxes of artifacts and then pulling out his backpack blower to cleanup around the museum. Then doughnuts were brought in by Mary Frances Weaver Williams which we enjoyed while we visited with Keith McLeod who donated an antique baby bottle warmer and a flyer showing the wages in 1978. One of our donors, Mr. Clapp, dropped in as did Kathy Weaver Pope and her mother-in-law, Hilda Pope. We are hoping to bring in Kathy to volunteer at the museum. What a productive day.
A big thank you to Ralph and Lorena Denning for remembering Tim Peede with a memorial. I am sure it will warm the hearts of his family.
My family continues to be touched by the outpouring of sympathy in the loss of H.L. It is still unreal to us and we keep expecting H.L. to walk in from working in the yard but we really know it is not going to happen. A sincere thank you to Walter and Kathy Weeks, Jeffrey and Kelly Pendergrass, Linda Cobb, Margaret House, Myrtle Bridges, Joe and Laila Turlington, Charles and Monnie Smith and my beloved sister-in-law Betty Ruth Johnson for the memorials to the Coats Museum in his honor.
How many people live to be 100 years old? In 2022, there were 97,104 people in American who were centenarians. That is the highest absolute number in the world even though Japan has the highest rate of .06 percent of population who are 100 or older. In the last two decades there has been a 58% increase in people living to be 100 or older.
Three decades ago, not two, Mrs. H.A. Turlington, Sr. planned to celebrate her 100th birthday on Sunday, March 15th. Her friends were invited to visit with her. Wonder if her grandson, Bickett Wade Turlington, was excited about her big day? Surely he was excited that he would open his restaurant in Coats on Monday morning at 5:30.
Who recalls the days when that same building housed another restaurant where one could purchase a hamburger for a quarter and a hotdog for a dime from Mr. Luke Barefoot. Cokes and other soft drinks were a nickel. Curb service meant that a pretty girl or cool guy would come to your car and take the order and the customer never had to leave the car in hot, cold or rainy weather.
Question-did they have drive-thru windows in those days of the 50’s and 60’s?
This I do know. The Coats Town Commissioners voted to contribute $500 towards the purchase of Bradford pear trees to be planted along McKinley Street. Some 91 trees were to be planted as a project of the Coats Area Chamber of Commerce. The entire project was to cost approximately $5,000. Businesses as well as individuals and civic clubs were asked to contribute (Daily Record Mar. 13, 1992).
Do you wonder how many people dropped in to celebrate Mrs. Laylon Parrish Turlington’s 100th birthday? Over 225 guests stopped by her house and H.L. and I were two of those 225. She was such a beautiful lady and I promise you she did not look like what we think a one hundred year old lady should look. She definitely had longevity genes because her dad was Barty Parrish and he lived to be 96 years old and two of her brothers lived to be 93. Mrs. Turlington was mother to seven children.
Gina Ann Keene and David Christopher Martin were married at the Coats Baptist Church. Gina was the daughter of Kenneth and Elaine Keene of Coats (Daily Record Mar. 16, 1992). This is really ironic. Last Thursday the door to the museum opened and in walked Kenneth and Elaine Keene. We always enjoy his visits because he has 90 years of memories. Kenneth taught school at Lafayette, Lillington and Harnett Central. He actually taught with Becky Adams, our faithful board secretary and weekly volunteer. Kenneth came by to give us a copy of a 2019 Daily Record that he had saved of the Coats Museum News. The article had one picture of Dr. H. C. Roberts and another of H.L with his museum friends.
Congratulations were due to Beverly and Shelton McLamb who had celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at the Coats Community Building. Beverly was employed at the BB&T at Coats where she made m any friends.
Notes shared that Rebecca Cozart had been inducted into the Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges. Lane and Teresa Gregory welcomed a new baby into their family. Adam‘s new baby sister was Elizabeth.
I can’t think of the Gregory family without having good memories. When my father died in January of 1988, there was ice covered with snow and snow covered with more ice. Albert, Lane’s father, lived about two miles from my dad’s house but he was the first one there with his tractor and blade clearing the driveways. When H. L. died a few weeks ago, Lane came knocking bringing a coconut cake made from his mother Betty famous recipe. You can’t help but love those people.
The birthday party of Mrs. Turlington continued to make the news. She and Henry had been married 65 years and they were third cousins, both being great-great-grandchildren of William Coats, Sr. The Turlington home place was purchased from the Shaw family in 1839-2400 acres at a cost of 58 cents per acre (Daily Record March 16, 1992). Now you why there is a cement sign with 1839 on it near the Coats Erwin Middle School at the 4-Way Stop.
The Turlington brick house was built around 1948 by Melvin Turlington of Lillington and at one time I think had a low brick wall around it. Mr. Henry had a beautiful youngest daughter name Susan Turlington. Her beauty had caught the eye of my older brother JC. He had ask her for a date and when they were leaving, J.C. backed his 1954 88 Oldsmobile into that wall. Now that is the story but I will not guarantee the truthfulness of it.
Death visited the family of Edwin V. Bushy Stewart, 88, of Coats. He had died on Sunday and his funeral service was held at Rose and Graham Funeral Chapel in Coats by Rev. Ralph Byrd and Elder A.D. McGee. He was buried in the Williams Family Cemetery. His surviving children were Billy R. Stewart and Dorothy Deets of N.Y. Liffie Williams and Carlie Stewart were siblings (Daily Record Mar. 17, 1992).
Attorney N. Earl Jones, Jr. was honored as Business Focus of Week by the CACC. He was one of the founders of the CACC. In 1979, he opened his law office in Coats for a general practice. In 1989, he received the Chamber’s Man of the Year Award (Daily Record Mar. 19, 1992).
Last Thursday was a very busy day with board member Lenny Parker working away in the museum attic organizing the boxes of artifacts and then pulling out his backpack blower to cleanup around the museum. Then doughnuts were brought in by Mary Frances Weaver Williams which we enjoyed while we visited with Keith McLeod who donated an antique baby bottle warmer and a flyer showing the wages in 1978. One of our donors, Mr. Clapp, dropped in as did Kathy Weaver Pope and her mother-in-law, Hilda Pope. We are hoping to bring in Kathy to volunteer at the museum. What a productive day.
A big thank you to Ralph and Lorena Denning for remembering Tim Peede with a memorial. I am sure it will warm the hearts of his family.
My family continues to be touched by the outpouring of sympathy in the loss of H.L. It is still unreal to us and we keep expecting H.L. to walk in from working in the yard but we really know it is not going to happen. A sincere thank you to Walter and Kathy Weeks, Jeffrey and Kelly Pendergrass, Linda Cobb, Margaret House, Myrtle Bridges, Joe and Laila Turlington, Charles and Monnie Smith and my beloved sister-in-law Betty Ruth Johnson for the memorials to the Coats Museum in his honor.