July 18, 2014 Coats Museum News
There is a store in Benson called Medlin and Dorman. Does the Dorman family of that firm have any Coats connection? I do know that a Mr. J.T. Dorman, 72, had died who lived on Angier, Route 2. He was survived by Mrs. Nora Bowden Dorman, Mrs. Lena Dorman, Ed Dorman and Willie Dorman (Dunn Dispatch July 25, 1949).
Another family in the area had suffered a death in the family. Mr. John M. Messer, 76, died at the home of Mrs. Shell Stephenson of Route 1, Coats. His services were at Red Hill Free Will Baptist Church. His wife, Mrs. Rebecca Messer, and seven children survived him-Mrs. Moses Johnson, Mrs. Myrtle Heuston, Mrs. J.T. Pleasant, Mrs. Shell Stephenson, W.A. Messer, J.C. Messer and J.B. Messer. His siblings were E.G. and W.T. Messer and Mrs. Henry Norris, Mrs. Jennie Byrd, Mrs. Haywood Norris, Mrs. Mary A. Hughes and Mrs. Johnnie Whittman (Dunn Dispatch July 27. 1949).
In the town of Coats, E.T. Malone and Malcolm Fowler, prominent Lillington businessman, had opened a new firm in Coats. They stocked electrical home appliances, radios, and television sets. Do you know why they call them television sets? I do know that the businessmen promised that for anyone who made a cash purchase in the store that they would donate 5 percent of it to the Community Building Fund (Dunn Dispatch July 30, 1949).
Captain Robert Kelly, commander of the 1935th Airways and Air Communication Squadron, returned home to Coats after an Arctic duty. Do you think he sweated in the high July temperatures after leaving the cold temperatures in Greenland? Possibly if his mom, Mrs. Lucy Kelly, served him fresh snap beans, corn, butter beans, tomatoes, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches and blackberries, he endured the heat of a Coats summer (Dunn Dispatch July 30, 1949).
The W. Carl Whittington household got some exciting news. Jacqueline Whittington was going to get married on September 25th to Bruce West. In the same neighborhood, J.A. Langdon announced to Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Sorrell, Sr. that he wanted to marry their youngest child, Laura Frances Sorrell. Fortunately they picked the 24th as their wedding date. Now the neighbors had two weddings to attend to get the cotton picking off their minds.
County Commissioner Carson Gregory had something to be thankful for because his wife saw through the kitchen window that they had a barn ablaze. Fast work saved the uninsured barn (Dunn Dispatch August 1, 1949).
Southwest of Coats in Grove Township, Gail Byrd had celebrated her 13th birthday. Gail’s parents entertained with a hayride, hot dog roast and watermelon feast. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Byrd were Gail’s parents and Mr. and Mrs. Shell Stewart of Route 1, Coats were grandparents. J.M. Daniel, 68, from near Coats had died on Wednesday night at 9:30. His services were held in Oxford, NC. His wife, the former Annie Adams, survived him. Eight children –Mrs. W. G. Partin, Mrs. W.P. Partin, Mrs. Harold Hatue, Rudy Lee Daniel, Betty Daniel, Melvin Daniel, Thomas W. Daniel and Bobby Daniel survived him as did one sister, Mrs. Emma Wilkerson (Dunn Dispatch August 5, 1949).
The folks in Coats had some news to share. Coats was getting a new doctor. Dr. M.E. Jones was leaving town and Dr. Donald W. Moore was coming to replace him. Dr. Moore was born in Cary, NC, attended Cary High School and received his B.A. at Wake Forest and his M.D. at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He interned at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, VA and spent 2 years in the Navy as a medical officer in the Pacific and the Philippines. For two years he was a resident physician in surgery at Rex Hospital. Dr. Moore had married Anne Byrd Tucker of Richmond. They brought to Coats with them their two children-Donald, Jr., age 5, and Linda, seven months.
Dr. Fleming welcomed the doctor to his practice after Dr. Jones left to return to his home to practice medicine in Granite Falls, NC (Dunn Dispatch August 8, 1949). I shared a few months ago that Dr. Jones continues to practice medicine in that area. He shared with Marilyn Coats Starnes who lives in that area that he once practiced medicine in her home town of Coats (Dunn Dispatch August 8, 1949).
The farm children and some of the town children were likely barning tobacco when the paper announced the opening date for the 1949-50 school term would be either August 30th or September 7th. The colored and Indian schools would open on September 7th. Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Nichols were grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nichols had announced the firth of a daughter, Pamela Dawn Nichols, at Dunn Hospital.
A wedding took place in Dunn on August 7th when Mr. and Mrs. Harry Aaron Stephenson were married at the home of Rev. A.R. McQueen. The bride was Miss Martha Magdalene Tadlock, daughter of James Tadlock (Dunn Dispatch August 10, 1949).
Grove Township got two of three road petitions passed. One was a road 1.5 miles long beginning at B.A. Norris house on the Benson-Coats Road to Bailey’s Crossroads. Six families lived on that road and were forced to walk .7 miles to the school bus route. The second road petition of Grove was for 1.5 miles of road between the C.L. Dixon and J.R. Dixon property on the Harnett-Johnson County line and extending 1.5 miles to the property of Herbert Johnson. Elsewhere, Miss Rosalie Denning entertained at a dinner for J.A. Langdon and Laura Frances Sorrell (Dunn Dispatch August 10, 1949).
The 1949-50 school term did open on August 30th. The seniors elected their class officers and Tommy Johnson was elected as president. Classmates voted Patsy Grimes-vice president, Eloise Pope-secretary and Sylvia Ingold treasurer. Laura Frances Pope posted all news of the class. Bobbie Adams, Billie Allen, Margie Barefoot, Claudius Byrd, Denella Byrd,, Annie Laurie, Clevenger, Arthur Denning, Olene Ennis, Dural Lee Fish, Robert Fish, Bobby Franklin, Patsy Grimes, Sylvia Ingold, Joan Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Doris Messer, Alene Pope, Eloise Pope, Laura Pope, William Ragan, Everett Reardon, Emily Turlington and Wadeford Williams were named as seniors of 1950.Thomas Stephenson and Ann Ennis were mascots for the class.
Teresa Neal Honeycutt taught for many years in Junior High at Coats School and later retired after teaching at Coats Erwin Middle School. She and her husband Dan Honeycutt were both award winning coaches. They continue to be supportive of sports in the schools, especially for the baseball program at Harnett Central High School where their son, Lance Honeycutt, is coaching there. Teresa is very active in the Coats Woman’s Club and in the Coats Baptist Church. Teresa and her family do a terrific job maintaining the museum grounds. As a result of her many hours serving her community she was elected the CACC Woman of the Year for 2012. A brick has been ordered for that recognition to go on the Walk of Ages. A thank you is extended to Dan and Teresa for remembering Christine Marks and Dorsey Daniel with memorials to the museum.
There is a store in Benson called Medlin and Dorman. Does the Dorman family of that firm have any Coats connection? I do know that a Mr. J.T. Dorman, 72, had died who lived on Angier, Route 2. He was survived by Mrs. Nora Bowden Dorman, Mrs. Lena Dorman, Ed Dorman and Willie Dorman (Dunn Dispatch July 25, 1949).
Another family in the area had suffered a death in the family. Mr. John M. Messer, 76, died at the home of Mrs. Shell Stephenson of Route 1, Coats. His services were at Red Hill Free Will Baptist Church. His wife, Mrs. Rebecca Messer, and seven children survived him-Mrs. Moses Johnson, Mrs. Myrtle Heuston, Mrs. J.T. Pleasant, Mrs. Shell Stephenson, W.A. Messer, J.C. Messer and J.B. Messer. His siblings were E.G. and W.T. Messer and Mrs. Henry Norris, Mrs. Jennie Byrd, Mrs. Haywood Norris, Mrs. Mary A. Hughes and Mrs. Johnnie Whittman (Dunn Dispatch July 27. 1949).
In the town of Coats, E.T. Malone and Malcolm Fowler, prominent Lillington businessman, had opened a new firm in Coats. They stocked electrical home appliances, radios, and television sets. Do you know why they call them television sets? I do know that the businessmen promised that for anyone who made a cash purchase in the store that they would donate 5 percent of it to the Community Building Fund (Dunn Dispatch July 30, 1949).
Captain Robert Kelly, commander of the 1935th Airways and Air Communication Squadron, returned home to Coats after an Arctic duty. Do you think he sweated in the high July temperatures after leaving the cold temperatures in Greenland? Possibly if his mom, Mrs. Lucy Kelly, served him fresh snap beans, corn, butter beans, tomatoes, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches and blackberries, he endured the heat of a Coats summer (Dunn Dispatch July 30, 1949).
The W. Carl Whittington household got some exciting news. Jacqueline Whittington was going to get married on September 25th to Bruce West. In the same neighborhood, J.A. Langdon announced to Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Sorrell, Sr. that he wanted to marry their youngest child, Laura Frances Sorrell. Fortunately they picked the 24th as their wedding date. Now the neighbors had two weddings to attend to get the cotton picking off their minds.
County Commissioner Carson Gregory had something to be thankful for because his wife saw through the kitchen window that they had a barn ablaze. Fast work saved the uninsured barn (Dunn Dispatch August 1, 1949).
Southwest of Coats in Grove Township, Gail Byrd had celebrated her 13th birthday. Gail’s parents entertained with a hayride, hot dog roast and watermelon feast. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Byrd were Gail’s parents and Mr. and Mrs. Shell Stewart of Route 1, Coats were grandparents. J.M. Daniel, 68, from near Coats had died on Wednesday night at 9:30. His services were held in Oxford, NC. His wife, the former Annie Adams, survived him. Eight children –Mrs. W. G. Partin, Mrs. W.P. Partin, Mrs. Harold Hatue, Rudy Lee Daniel, Betty Daniel, Melvin Daniel, Thomas W. Daniel and Bobby Daniel survived him as did one sister, Mrs. Emma Wilkerson (Dunn Dispatch August 5, 1949).
The folks in Coats had some news to share. Coats was getting a new doctor. Dr. M.E. Jones was leaving town and Dr. Donald W. Moore was coming to replace him. Dr. Moore was born in Cary, NC, attended Cary High School and received his B.A. at Wake Forest and his M.D. at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He interned at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, VA and spent 2 years in the Navy as a medical officer in the Pacific and the Philippines. For two years he was a resident physician in surgery at Rex Hospital. Dr. Moore had married Anne Byrd Tucker of Richmond. They brought to Coats with them their two children-Donald, Jr., age 5, and Linda, seven months.
Dr. Fleming welcomed the doctor to his practice after Dr. Jones left to return to his home to practice medicine in Granite Falls, NC (Dunn Dispatch August 8, 1949). I shared a few months ago that Dr. Jones continues to practice medicine in that area. He shared with Marilyn Coats Starnes who lives in that area that he once practiced medicine in her home town of Coats (Dunn Dispatch August 8, 1949).
The farm children and some of the town children were likely barning tobacco when the paper announced the opening date for the 1949-50 school term would be either August 30th or September 7th. The colored and Indian schools would open on September 7th. Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Nichols were grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nichols had announced the firth of a daughter, Pamela Dawn Nichols, at Dunn Hospital.
A wedding took place in Dunn on August 7th when Mr. and Mrs. Harry Aaron Stephenson were married at the home of Rev. A.R. McQueen. The bride was Miss Martha Magdalene Tadlock, daughter of James Tadlock (Dunn Dispatch August 10, 1949).
Grove Township got two of three road petitions passed. One was a road 1.5 miles long beginning at B.A. Norris house on the Benson-Coats Road to Bailey’s Crossroads. Six families lived on that road and were forced to walk .7 miles to the school bus route. The second road petition of Grove was for 1.5 miles of road between the C.L. Dixon and J.R. Dixon property on the Harnett-Johnson County line and extending 1.5 miles to the property of Herbert Johnson. Elsewhere, Miss Rosalie Denning entertained at a dinner for J.A. Langdon and Laura Frances Sorrell (Dunn Dispatch August 10, 1949).
The 1949-50 school term did open on August 30th. The seniors elected their class officers and Tommy Johnson was elected as president. Classmates voted Patsy Grimes-vice president, Eloise Pope-secretary and Sylvia Ingold treasurer. Laura Frances Pope posted all news of the class. Bobbie Adams, Billie Allen, Margie Barefoot, Claudius Byrd, Denella Byrd,, Annie Laurie, Clevenger, Arthur Denning, Olene Ennis, Dural Lee Fish, Robert Fish, Bobby Franklin, Patsy Grimes, Sylvia Ingold, Joan Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Doris Messer, Alene Pope, Eloise Pope, Laura Pope, William Ragan, Everett Reardon, Emily Turlington and Wadeford Williams were named as seniors of 1950.Thomas Stephenson and Ann Ennis were mascots for the class.
Teresa Neal Honeycutt taught for many years in Junior High at Coats School and later retired after teaching at Coats Erwin Middle School. She and her husband Dan Honeycutt were both award winning coaches. They continue to be supportive of sports in the schools, especially for the baseball program at Harnett Central High School where their son, Lance Honeycutt, is coaching there. Teresa is very active in the Coats Woman’s Club and in the Coats Baptist Church. Teresa and her family do a terrific job maintaining the museum grounds. As a result of her many hours serving her community she was elected the CACC Woman of the Year for 2012. A brick has been ordered for that recognition to go on the Walk of Ages. A thank you is extended to Dan and Teresa for remembering Christine Marks and Dorsey Daniel with memorials to the museum.