March 18, 2016 Coats Museum News
The Home Demonstration Clubs have been around for many years and were a means for the women in the communities to keep abreast of innovations that could improve their home lives The Grove area had several of the HD Clubs. Members of the Turlington HD Club had won 25 dollars savings bond for being the most outstanding home demonstration club in the county. Mrs. Garland Johnson was the president of the club. The club also won a country ham for having the most members present at monthly meetings with a monthly percentage of 86.
Carol Pope became the bride of Elder Derle McGee in the home of Elder E.T. Lewis. Carol was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Pope of rural Coats and Derle was the son Mr. and Mrs. Alton McGee. Carol is a delightful lady and many of us were excited when she moved back to her home place a few years back. Mrs. Billy Ray Hardee was the former Jeannette Beasley. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Beasley. Her marriage to A/ 3C Hardee took place in Dillon S.C. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Hardee of Fuquay. Is this the sister of Ricky and Jerry Beasley and Joyce Kay Young? Elsewhere, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Ryals announced the marriage of their daughter Jean to Boyt Lee, son of Mrs. W.M. Truelove (Daily Record Aug. 19, 1957).
How many of you know someone who has been killed or hurt on the job? I do know that one of the best known men in Coats was seriously hurt on the job in 1957. Mr. Carlos Stewart who had spent his summers installing cotton gins and keeping them operating, had his arm almost torn off and it was later amputated at the Laurinburg Hospital (Daily Record Aug. 23, 1957).
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Dave House, and Mrs. Edwin Stewart went to Scotland County Memorial Hospital to visit Mr. Carlos Stewart. Pvt. Joe Fish, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Fish, was stationed in Georgia and was visiting his family before he returned to go to New Jersey (Daily Record Aug. 30, 1957).
When was the first time you ever saw an ice sculpture used at a festive event? In 1957, the Daily Record reported that the centerpiece for a lawn party for Georgia Bass of Dunn and Washington, D. C. was most interesting. It was a huge ice sculpture of a big bass and several small bass. Obviously the centerpiece was a play off Miss Bass’s name. The event was hosted by Mrs. Chrystelle Truesdell of Washington, D.C., but formerly of Coats. The event was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jonah C. Johnson of rural Coats. Miss Bass was administrative assistant to U.S. Congressman Carlyle who represented Harnett County in the 1950’s and served in the US Congress with Chrystelle’s brother-in-law, Congressman Bryan Dorn (Daily Record Sept. 2, 1957).
Another local festive event was in the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church where Marjorie Ogburn married George Walter Scott and Joyce Ogburn married Maurice Harwood Oliver. The Reverend John E. Taylor and Reverend Dewey Herring officiated. Mrs. Tom Nordan was pianist and Miss Mary Alice Ryals was vocalist. Brothers James E. and C. Hunter Ogburn gave their sisters away. The brides wore identical waltz length gowns of Chantilly lace over taffeta. Miss Vergie Barefoot attended Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Mack Reid Hudson attended Mrs. Oliver. The attendants wore waltz length dresses of ice blue brocaded taffeta. Mack Reid Hudson served as one of the ushers. After the wedding, the Hudsons entertained at a lovely reception at their home at Bailey’s Crossroads (Daily Record Sept. 6, 1957).
Had the county built a cafeteria on the Coats School campus when Campbell College opened a new dining hall on their campus in 1957? I do know that the marriage of Miss Rebecca Upchurch, daughter of Mrs. Electra Upchurch and the late M.C. Upchurch, and Dennis Aaron Pope of rural Coats took place at the home of the bride. The Reverend Bob Rogers of Coats officiated. The bride was a Coats High School graduate and had worked as secretary in a local lawyer’s office for many years. The bridegroom was also a Coats High graduate, an UNC Chapel Hill graduate and had taught in the Harnett Schools prior to serving in the US Army (Daily Record Sept. 9, 1957).
Judy Stewart, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Stewart of Coats and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stewart of Dunn, kept the teens busy reading her “Teen Topics” in the Daily Record (Daily Record Sept. 13, 1957). Does anyone know where Judy Stewart is today and did she continue to be interested in journalism?
Coats teens were also in the news. The Leadership for WMU had been held in Durham. The Coats young people who attended were Gwen Dixon, Barbara Stewart and Ethel Jernigan of the Coats Baptist Church. The Fellowship Club met at Barefoot’s Steakhouse. They normally had met at Carson and Hack’s. Did this business replace it or was Barefoot’s another restaurant spacious enough to accommodate a large group?
Mr. Carlos Stewart was home from the Laurinburg hospital and was doing fine. Wonder how the amputation of his arm affected his future work on cotton gins? I will share that many of the 1957 graduates were headed for additional education. Billy Langdon and James Weaver were headed to UNC at Chapel Hill and Lea Joy Johnson and Patsy Stewart arrived at Woman’s College in Greensboro while Ethel Jernigan, Gwen Dixon, and Delores Harmon attended Campbell College. Joyce Johnson had enrolled at Harbarger’s Business College in Raleigh (Daily Record Sept. 16, 1957).
The Young Married Couple’s Class at Pleasant Memory met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Peede. Burnice Weaver was president of the class but Harold Jernigan presided at the September meeting that was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stancil, and Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Penny.
How many of you know Coy Broadwell who taught at Coats High for many years? Most will say that he is one of the hardest working individuals around. Some of you may know that he had a sister named Mabel Broadwell. Their parents were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Broadwell of rural Angier, Mabel had entered the University of N.C. Nursing School. She was one of sixty-two to enter this four year program (Daily Record Sept. 17, 1957).
The area had lost one of its WWI veterans at the Veteran’s Hospital in Fayetteville. Mr. Lonnie Mack Moore, 69, had died there and left to survive him two local residents-Riley Moore and Mrs. Wade Stanley (Daily Record Sept. 18, 1957). Who was this gentleman? Was he connected to Devon Moore and Mack and Cecil Stephenson families?
How many of you have visited the coatsmuseum.com website? We add to the site two newspaper columns each week. One can read the Coats Museum News columns that were in the Daily Record back in 2009-2012. You can always find an amazing amount of information relevant to the Coats area. Enjoy your past!
Next week the column will be different in that a poem filled with memories of life on Coats Main Street composed by Julia Taylor Gregory will be shared.
The volunteers send a special thank you to John and Doris Johnson Nolan for their memorial donation to honor Doris’s cousin, Joey Johnson.
The Home Demonstration Clubs have been around for many years and were a means for the women in the communities to keep abreast of innovations that could improve their home lives The Grove area had several of the HD Clubs. Members of the Turlington HD Club had won 25 dollars savings bond for being the most outstanding home demonstration club in the county. Mrs. Garland Johnson was the president of the club. The club also won a country ham for having the most members present at monthly meetings with a monthly percentage of 86.
Carol Pope became the bride of Elder Derle McGee in the home of Elder E.T. Lewis. Carol was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Pope of rural Coats and Derle was the son Mr. and Mrs. Alton McGee. Carol is a delightful lady and many of us were excited when she moved back to her home place a few years back. Mrs. Billy Ray Hardee was the former Jeannette Beasley. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Beasley. Her marriage to A/ 3C Hardee took place in Dillon S.C. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Hardee of Fuquay. Is this the sister of Ricky and Jerry Beasley and Joyce Kay Young? Elsewhere, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Ryals announced the marriage of their daughter Jean to Boyt Lee, son of Mrs. W.M. Truelove (Daily Record Aug. 19, 1957).
How many of you know someone who has been killed or hurt on the job? I do know that one of the best known men in Coats was seriously hurt on the job in 1957. Mr. Carlos Stewart who had spent his summers installing cotton gins and keeping them operating, had his arm almost torn off and it was later amputated at the Laurinburg Hospital (Daily Record Aug. 23, 1957).
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. Dave House, and Mrs. Edwin Stewart went to Scotland County Memorial Hospital to visit Mr. Carlos Stewart. Pvt. Joe Fish, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Fish, was stationed in Georgia and was visiting his family before he returned to go to New Jersey (Daily Record Aug. 30, 1957).
When was the first time you ever saw an ice sculpture used at a festive event? In 1957, the Daily Record reported that the centerpiece for a lawn party for Georgia Bass of Dunn and Washington, D. C. was most interesting. It was a huge ice sculpture of a big bass and several small bass. Obviously the centerpiece was a play off Miss Bass’s name. The event was hosted by Mrs. Chrystelle Truesdell of Washington, D.C., but formerly of Coats. The event was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jonah C. Johnson of rural Coats. Miss Bass was administrative assistant to U.S. Congressman Carlyle who represented Harnett County in the 1950’s and served in the US Congress with Chrystelle’s brother-in-law, Congressman Bryan Dorn (Daily Record Sept. 2, 1957).
Another local festive event was in the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church where Marjorie Ogburn married George Walter Scott and Joyce Ogburn married Maurice Harwood Oliver. The Reverend John E. Taylor and Reverend Dewey Herring officiated. Mrs. Tom Nordan was pianist and Miss Mary Alice Ryals was vocalist. Brothers James E. and C. Hunter Ogburn gave their sisters away. The brides wore identical waltz length gowns of Chantilly lace over taffeta. Miss Vergie Barefoot attended Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Mack Reid Hudson attended Mrs. Oliver. The attendants wore waltz length dresses of ice blue brocaded taffeta. Mack Reid Hudson served as one of the ushers. After the wedding, the Hudsons entertained at a lovely reception at their home at Bailey’s Crossroads (Daily Record Sept. 6, 1957).
Had the county built a cafeteria on the Coats School campus when Campbell College opened a new dining hall on their campus in 1957? I do know that the marriage of Miss Rebecca Upchurch, daughter of Mrs. Electra Upchurch and the late M.C. Upchurch, and Dennis Aaron Pope of rural Coats took place at the home of the bride. The Reverend Bob Rogers of Coats officiated. The bride was a Coats High School graduate and had worked as secretary in a local lawyer’s office for many years. The bridegroom was also a Coats High graduate, an UNC Chapel Hill graduate and had taught in the Harnett Schools prior to serving in the US Army (Daily Record Sept. 9, 1957).
Judy Stewart, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Stewart of Coats and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stewart of Dunn, kept the teens busy reading her “Teen Topics” in the Daily Record (Daily Record Sept. 13, 1957). Does anyone know where Judy Stewart is today and did she continue to be interested in journalism?
Coats teens were also in the news. The Leadership for WMU had been held in Durham. The Coats young people who attended were Gwen Dixon, Barbara Stewart and Ethel Jernigan of the Coats Baptist Church. The Fellowship Club met at Barefoot’s Steakhouse. They normally had met at Carson and Hack’s. Did this business replace it or was Barefoot’s another restaurant spacious enough to accommodate a large group?
Mr. Carlos Stewart was home from the Laurinburg hospital and was doing fine. Wonder how the amputation of his arm affected his future work on cotton gins? I will share that many of the 1957 graduates were headed for additional education. Billy Langdon and James Weaver were headed to UNC at Chapel Hill and Lea Joy Johnson and Patsy Stewart arrived at Woman’s College in Greensboro while Ethel Jernigan, Gwen Dixon, and Delores Harmon attended Campbell College. Joyce Johnson had enrolled at Harbarger’s Business College in Raleigh (Daily Record Sept. 16, 1957).
The Young Married Couple’s Class at Pleasant Memory met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Peede. Burnice Weaver was president of the class but Harold Jernigan presided at the September meeting that was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stancil, and Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Penny.
How many of you know Coy Broadwell who taught at Coats High for many years? Most will say that he is one of the hardest working individuals around. Some of you may know that he had a sister named Mabel Broadwell. Their parents were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Broadwell of rural Angier, Mabel had entered the University of N.C. Nursing School. She was one of sixty-two to enter this four year program (Daily Record Sept. 17, 1957).
The area had lost one of its WWI veterans at the Veteran’s Hospital in Fayetteville. Mr. Lonnie Mack Moore, 69, had died there and left to survive him two local residents-Riley Moore and Mrs. Wade Stanley (Daily Record Sept. 18, 1957). Who was this gentleman? Was he connected to Devon Moore and Mack and Cecil Stephenson families?
How many of you have visited the coatsmuseum.com website? We add to the site two newspaper columns each week. One can read the Coats Museum News columns that were in the Daily Record back in 2009-2012. You can always find an amazing amount of information relevant to the Coats area. Enjoy your past!
Next week the column will be different in that a poem filled with memories of life on Coats Main Street composed by Julia Taylor Gregory will be shared.
The volunteers send a special thank you to John and Doris Johnson Nolan for their memorial donation to honor Doris’s cousin, Joey Johnson.
