September 13, 2013 Coats Museum News
The year was 1945-the year in which the war came to a dramatic end and the nuclear age began. President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke the tradition of a president serving more than two presidential terms. Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. A spectacular force of 1,000 U.S. bombers raided Germany. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., donated $8.5 million for the purchase of land along New York City’s East River to erect the permanent headquarters of the United Nations. Anne Frank, 14 year-old diary keeper, died in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. The U.S. Marines took Iwo Jima. In one of the war’s greatest coordinated air efforts, 7,000 allied planes dropped 12,000 tons of explosives on Germany in full daylight. General Dwight Eisenhower announced that German defenses on the Western-Front had been broken. The last V-2 rocket landed on London. Bop came into fashion with the help of Dizzy Gillespie. Brave Men by Ernie Pyle, who was killed in the Pacific early in the year, was a best seller. A photograph taken on February 23 of Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribacki on Iwo Jima became an icon of the American spirit.
Following the explosion of the atomic bombs, it was written that the power of the atom in simple matter was harnessed and all other forms of energy would be antiquated such as fuels and explosives. Dams and electrical transmissions would be as outmoded as stagecoaches. Did that happen?
Ebony became an immediate hit among black readers. A number of states required bakers to add certain vitamins and minerals to enrich the bread. Plastics exhibits were all the rage. From bomber noses and jettison fuel tanks to everyday things such as coat hangers and screwdrivers were made of plastic (Dickson, Paul, From Elvis to E-Mail , Springfield, Massachusetts: Federal Street Press, 1999.pages 1-3).
Sgt. Randolph Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Taylor of Coats, landed in England after being in the service for 7 years. On June 9, 1945, Mrs. J.C. Langdon hosted the Community H.D. Club and their husbands. The home agents, Mr. T.D. O’Quinn and Miss Maude Searcy, made talks on “Price Trends” and “Planning Farm and Home Economics”. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Eddie L Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Denning and Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Whittington and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Langdon were guests from the Turlington H.D. Club.
Mrs. Bessie Lee Denning, wife of Ezra Denning, had died on Saturday in Newport News, Virginia. She had three children: Mamie Ruth, Pattie and Fred Thomas Denning. Her mother, Laura Barnes; her brothers-Everett, Jack, Edward, and Thomas J. Barnes and her sisters-Mrs. Etta Moran and Mrs. Alice Bolton, survived her (Harnett County News January 18, 1945).
The February 15, 1945 edition of the Harnett County News reported the following information. Private Edward W. Pollard, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Pollard of Coats, had been transferred from England to France where he was a member of a medical battalion. Mrs. Ella Meredith Tyner, 19, of Coats and Dunn died. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Nichols. Her husband, Landis Tyner, in the Navy stationed in the Pacific, also survived her. She had two siblings: Edmund Butler Nichols and Mrs. Tommy Byrne. Her maternal step-grandmother was Mrs. George I. Smith of Coats. Did she not also have a son? Another death touched the people in the Coats area. Mrs. John Stewart, 65, the former Mattie Honeycutt, died at Good Hope Hospital. Mrs. Rufus Parrish and two brothers, Frank and Ernest Honeycutt, survived her.
Many of you remember Johnnie and Estelle Williams, parents of Larry and Phyllis Williams. The World War II veteran served as a private and was attached to the 320 Infantry in France in March of 1945. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Jr.
The news also printed other notes such as Mr. and Mrs. D.K. Stewart and daughter Martha had spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Stewart, and Mrs. Clyde Miller of Coats had received word that her husband had arrived safely somewhere in the South Pacific. Pvt. Wade A. Turlington had also notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Turlington of Coats of his safe arrival with the Army in Belgium. James L. Pollard, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Pollard was serving with the Coast Guard in the Atlantic (March 1, 1945 Harnett County News).
The Page Book Club of Coats met at the home of A.J. Dickson, principal of the local school. The program was on poetry to honor the deceased member, Meredith Nichols Tyner (Harnett County News March 1, 1945).
W.P. Pope, Lexie Pleasant, C.L. Dixon, and O.K. Keene had jury duty for April 7, 1945. Busbee Pope announced that he would close shop due to the draft of his last employee, the last of his three sons for service. The Harnett County News offered its services for printing but Pope declined the offer. The same issue of the paper reported that Pvt. Wade Turlington of Coats was injured in Germany (Harnett County News March 8, 1945).
Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Harmon of Coats announced that their lovely daughter Mary had married Pvt. Clyde Ennis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.E. Ennis of Coats. The ladies in the Coats Community H.D. Club completed a home nursing course by the Red Cross. The members who benefited from the course were Mrs. L.D. Jones, Mrs. Virginia Mason, Mrs. Bunnie Mitchell, Mrs. J.C. Langdon, and Mrs. Carlie McLamb (Harnett County News March 22, 1945).
Pfc. Ores Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Stone, was in the army in Germany (Harnett County News March 22, 1945). Did Pfc. Stone have children back home in the Coats area?
How dismal the atmosphere around Grove had been since the war began. The draft seemed to over shadow even the deaths of the young and old in the community. The school news was almost nonexistent. Even the weddings seemed to be simply an “I do” ceremony. Citizens, whether in military or civil responsibilities, did so in stride. The civil term for May 7 court had many Coats men sitting on the jury. Those who were summoned were Walter Franklin, B.L. Duncan, Lester Avery, T.J. Barnes, and E.L. Avery. Those who were summoned for May 21 criminal term were D.J. Stuart, Maylon Avery, B.B. Hudson, J.M. Tart, R.G. Avery, Ospert Ennis, J.M. Williams, W.H. Stuart, E.G. Messer, W.F. Ryals, and David H. Grimes.
News came to Coats that Poe Raynor, son of D.M. Raynor, was a POW of the German government. He had previously been reported MIA since December 22, 1944 (Harnett County News April 5, 1945). Visit the museum for the rest of the story of Poe Raynor.
The museum enjoyed visits from many local folks and several from states such as Florida, New York, Virginia and Massachusetts. A former engineer (1976) of the train that ran through Coats four times a week during his tenure visited the museum from Virginia. Our own Donald Page is going to make the museum a replica of Alton Stewart’s plane that crashed and killed Stewart and his two students. A couple from Fayetteville visited the museum who are good friends of Donald and Juanita and they told us of the talent that Donald had in making replicas and sent Donald to see us.
We also welcomed large groups-Leadership Harnett, Coats ECA and the McGee’s Crossroads Club of the Coats Bell Tower Museum. We also received another honorarium for Mary Stephenson and memorials for Dick Fisher, former Kiwanis Lt. Governor of Carolinas and a donor to the museum. Hilda Pope, Donald and Shyrl Burchette, and Denise and Mark Stearley have remembered Christine Akerman Parrish-Thank you to these donors.
PLEASE ABE MINDFUL THAT THIS COATS MUSEUM NEWS APPEARED IN THE DAILY RECORD ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2013.
The year was 1945-the year in which the war came to a dramatic end and the nuclear age began. President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke the tradition of a president serving more than two presidential terms. Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. A spectacular force of 1,000 U.S. bombers raided Germany. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., donated $8.5 million for the purchase of land along New York City’s East River to erect the permanent headquarters of the United Nations. Anne Frank, 14 year-old diary keeper, died in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. The U.S. Marines took Iwo Jima. In one of the war’s greatest coordinated air efforts, 7,000 allied planes dropped 12,000 tons of explosives on Germany in full daylight. General Dwight Eisenhower announced that German defenses on the Western-Front had been broken. The last V-2 rocket landed on London. Bop came into fashion with the help of Dizzy Gillespie. Brave Men by Ernie Pyle, who was killed in the Pacific early in the year, was a best seller. A photograph taken on February 23 of Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribacki on Iwo Jima became an icon of the American spirit.
Following the explosion of the atomic bombs, it was written that the power of the atom in simple matter was harnessed and all other forms of energy would be antiquated such as fuels and explosives. Dams and electrical transmissions would be as outmoded as stagecoaches. Did that happen?
Ebony became an immediate hit among black readers. A number of states required bakers to add certain vitamins and minerals to enrich the bread. Plastics exhibits were all the rage. From bomber noses and jettison fuel tanks to everyday things such as coat hangers and screwdrivers were made of plastic (Dickson, Paul, From Elvis to E-Mail , Springfield, Massachusetts: Federal Street Press, 1999.pages 1-3).
Sgt. Randolph Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Taylor of Coats, landed in England after being in the service for 7 years. On June 9, 1945, Mrs. J.C. Langdon hosted the Community H.D. Club and their husbands. The home agents, Mr. T.D. O’Quinn and Miss Maude Searcy, made talks on “Price Trends” and “Planning Farm and Home Economics”. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Eddie L Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Denning and Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Whittington and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Langdon were guests from the Turlington H.D. Club.
Mrs. Bessie Lee Denning, wife of Ezra Denning, had died on Saturday in Newport News, Virginia. She had three children: Mamie Ruth, Pattie and Fred Thomas Denning. Her mother, Laura Barnes; her brothers-Everett, Jack, Edward, and Thomas J. Barnes and her sisters-Mrs. Etta Moran and Mrs. Alice Bolton, survived her (Harnett County News January 18, 1945).
The February 15, 1945 edition of the Harnett County News reported the following information. Private Edward W. Pollard, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Pollard of Coats, had been transferred from England to France where he was a member of a medical battalion. Mrs. Ella Meredith Tyner, 19, of Coats and Dunn died. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Nichols. Her husband, Landis Tyner, in the Navy stationed in the Pacific, also survived her. She had two siblings: Edmund Butler Nichols and Mrs. Tommy Byrne. Her maternal step-grandmother was Mrs. George I. Smith of Coats. Did she not also have a son? Another death touched the people in the Coats area. Mrs. John Stewart, 65, the former Mattie Honeycutt, died at Good Hope Hospital. Mrs. Rufus Parrish and two brothers, Frank and Ernest Honeycutt, survived her.
Many of you remember Johnnie and Estelle Williams, parents of Larry and Phyllis Williams. The World War II veteran served as a private and was attached to the 320 Infantry in France in March of 1945. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Jr.
The news also printed other notes such as Mr. and Mrs. D.K. Stewart and daughter Martha had spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Stewart, and Mrs. Clyde Miller of Coats had received word that her husband had arrived safely somewhere in the South Pacific. Pvt. Wade A. Turlington had also notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Turlington of Coats of his safe arrival with the Army in Belgium. James L. Pollard, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Pollard was serving with the Coast Guard in the Atlantic (March 1, 1945 Harnett County News).
The Page Book Club of Coats met at the home of A.J. Dickson, principal of the local school. The program was on poetry to honor the deceased member, Meredith Nichols Tyner (Harnett County News March 1, 1945).
W.P. Pope, Lexie Pleasant, C.L. Dixon, and O.K. Keene had jury duty for April 7, 1945. Busbee Pope announced that he would close shop due to the draft of his last employee, the last of his three sons for service. The Harnett County News offered its services for printing but Pope declined the offer. The same issue of the paper reported that Pvt. Wade Turlington of Coats was injured in Germany (Harnett County News March 8, 1945).
Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Harmon of Coats announced that their lovely daughter Mary had married Pvt. Clyde Ennis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.E. Ennis of Coats. The ladies in the Coats Community H.D. Club completed a home nursing course by the Red Cross. The members who benefited from the course were Mrs. L.D. Jones, Mrs. Virginia Mason, Mrs. Bunnie Mitchell, Mrs. J.C. Langdon, and Mrs. Carlie McLamb (Harnett County News March 22, 1945).
Pfc. Ores Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Stone, was in the army in Germany (Harnett County News March 22, 1945). Did Pfc. Stone have children back home in the Coats area?
How dismal the atmosphere around Grove had been since the war began. The draft seemed to over shadow even the deaths of the young and old in the community. The school news was almost nonexistent. Even the weddings seemed to be simply an “I do” ceremony. Citizens, whether in military or civil responsibilities, did so in stride. The civil term for May 7 court had many Coats men sitting on the jury. Those who were summoned were Walter Franklin, B.L. Duncan, Lester Avery, T.J. Barnes, and E.L. Avery. Those who were summoned for May 21 criminal term were D.J. Stuart, Maylon Avery, B.B. Hudson, J.M. Tart, R.G. Avery, Ospert Ennis, J.M. Williams, W.H. Stuart, E.G. Messer, W.F. Ryals, and David H. Grimes.
News came to Coats that Poe Raynor, son of D.M. Raynor, was a POW of the German government. He had previously been reported MIA since December 22, 1944 (Harnett County News April 5, 1945). Visit the museum for the rest of the story of Poe Raynor.
The museum enjoyed visits from many local folks and several from states such as Florida, New York, Virginia and Massachusetts. A former engineer (1976) of the train that ran through Coats four times a week during his tenure visited the museum from Virginia. Our own Donald Page is going to make the museum a replica of Alton Stewart’s plane that crashed and killed Stewart and his two students. A couple from Fayetteville visited the museum who are good friends of Donald and Juanita and they told us of the talent that Donald had in making replicas and sent Donald to see us.
We also welcomed large groups-Leadership Harnett, Coats ECA and the McGee’s Crossroads Club of the Coats Bell Tower Museum. We also received another honorarium for Mary Stephenson and memorials for Dick Fisher, former Kiwanis Lt. Governor of Carolinas and a donor to the museum. Hilda Pope, Donald and Shyrl Burchette, and Denise and Mark Stearley have remembered Christine Akerman Parrish-Thank you to these donors.
PLEASE ABE MINDFUL THAT THIS COATS MUSEUM NEWS APPEARED IN THE DAILY RECORD ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2013.
