September 30, 2022 Coats Museum News
The date on the calendar was March 19, 1991 and within that edition it shared that another individual with Coats roots had died. Grace Pope Stewart of Buies Creek, daughter of the late Bill and Fannie Roberts Pope, had just lost her sister Willie Pope Davis a few weeks earlier (Daily Record Mar. 20, 1991).
Dudley Langdon, Keith Parrish and DeWayne Weeks of Dunn were preparing for a visit from Rep. Charlie Hatcher of Georgia, Chairman of the House Tobacco and Peanut Subcommittee. The congressman was to visit with the three farmers at their farms (Daily Record Mar. 22, 1991).
Another death touched a Coasts family. Annie Lou Glover Ennis, 71, of Coats had died. Her services were held at the Skinner Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Lakeside Memorial Gardens. Survivors were her husband, Walter “Walt” Ennis and a son, Gerald Ennis. Pauline Surles and Josephine Stone were her sisters (Daily Record Mar. 27, 1991).
Does anyone have any idea the number of individuals from the Coats Baptist Church who have been on mission trips? The number continues to grow today but it was in 1991 that Kent Turlington, David Barnes and Steven Wilkie had returned from a mission trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil where they had helped build churches and witness to the lost (Daily Record Mar. 28, 1991).
The old 1914 Coats High School building had been moved to a new location where it would be refurbished into an area museum. On Monday, outside of Coats, death had visited the family of J.C. Johnson, Jr. His wife Charlotte Barbour Johnson, 54, had lost her battle with cancer. Her funeral was at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church with Rev. Johnson Dorn officiating. Survivors were her husband, J.C. Johnson, Jr., and her two children-Joey Travis and Cathy Johnson (April 1, 1991). Charlotte was the daughter of Ben and Lucy Creech Barbour of Johnston County. Joe, Carlton, Louise, Elizabeth and Lana Sue were her siblings. Mr. Ben Barbour and his sons were house movers. In fact they moved the houses on 421 in the area around Campbell University which included the old Campbell House that you read about many columns back.
In two months, the Gregory family-Albert, Lane and Blake had expected to harvest about 20,000 catfish from their farm outside of Coats. In five years, they expected to harvest half a million of the horned fish. Lane Gregory operated the Lane’s Restaurant near McGee’s Crossroads.
The 79th Farmers Day Festival was planned for April 20th. Carolyn Moore, Glenda Denton, and C.J. Johnson were planning the event. Bob Etheridge was scheduled to be grand marshal for the parade (Daily Record Apr. 3, 1991).
Other news appearing in the April 4, 1991 Daily Record was that little Brittany Carroll, daughter of Linwood and Becky Carroll, had returned home from spending a few days at Duke and Raleigh Hospitals. Grady Matthews, G.R. Stephenson, Shirley Faye Hayes, Paul Pollard, Hermie Turlington, and Kenneth Turlington were local residents who had been very ill in hospitals.
Another Coats lady had died. Miss Mary E. Stephenson, 88, of Coats, had died on Thursday. She was buried at Devotional Gardens with graveside services by Rev. Ralph Byrd (Daily Record Apr. 5, 1991).
Little Mandy Parrish, daughter of Ronnie and Sue Parrish, was a finalist in the Harnett County Spelling Bee (Daily Record Apr. 9, 1991). What grade was Mandy in when she competed?
I do know that the Coats Motor Co. Inc. had earned Chrysler Corporation’s highest dealership honor, “Award of Excellence”. This was the third time the honor had been given to the Coats dealership (Daily Record Apr. 10, 1991).
How many of you can recall that a car salesman would sometimes visit folks in the country sharing what cars were available to purchase at a certain dealership? As a small girl I remember some from Benson and Coats visiting when we were barning and later grading tobacco telling my dad a new Ford, Chevy, or Chrysler would be arriving soon at the local dealerships.
Several favorite stories have been shared to us about that dealership. One is the fact that cars were early on delivered in boxes on the Durham and Southern Railroad and had to assembled by the mechanics. Sometimes extra parts came and Mr. Guy Stewart had enough extra parts to make a rail around his front porch. Sadly later when times were really tough, he had to make a decision to lose his business or his house and he decided to lose his house. Fortunately, times improved and he was able to build the lovely house across from the current post office.
One of our treasured items in the museum is the sales journal from around 1939 from the Chrysler dealership that shares the names of the people who purchased or traded cars.
The Coats Woman’s Club Treasurer, Christine Parrish, presented a check for $200.00 to the Coats Museum Construction Chairman James Grimes (Daily Record Apr. 11, 1991). It took folks such as these to build the beautiful Coats Museum.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McGee of Route 1 Benson had announced the engagement of their daughter, Sharon McGee, to Brian Kelly Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson of Route 3, Dunn (Daily Record (Apr. 12, 1991). Do you think they knew that she would one day serve as principal to several of our Harnett County Schools?
The volunteers are so excited about our Third Edition of the Defenders of the Red, White and Blue. The years of work were for the thousands of veterans who served in the military. The 400 page book is the work of love from the museum volunteers. A limited number of copies are on sale at the Coats Museum for $20.00 on Sunday afternoons and on Thursdays.
Devon Moore has been honored with many memorials this week by the following: Glenn and Margaret King, Edward Hodges, Rhonda Owen, Sue Leonard, Doris Bell, Kim and Andy Sledge, Hilda Pope, Sandra Howard, Ralph and Lorena Denning, Margaret House, C.T. Clayton, Robie and Lynda Butler and Gayle and H. L. Sorrell. Thank you goes to Hope and family and to all those who loved Devon.
The date on the calendar was March 19, 1991 and within that edition it shared that another individual with Coats roots had died. Grace Pope Stewart of Buies Creek, daughter of the late Bill and Fannie Roberts Pope, had just lost her sister Willie Pope Davis a few weeks earlier (Daily Record Mar. 20, 1991).
Dudley Langdon, Keith Parrish and DeWayne Weeks of Dunn were preparing for a visit from Rep. Charlie Hatcher of Georgia, Chairman of the House Tobacco and Peanut Subcommittee. The congressman was to visit with the three farmers at their farms (Daily Record Mar. 22, 1991).
Another death touched a Coasts family. Annie Lou Glover Ennis, 71, of Coats had died. Her services were held at the Skinner Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Lakeside Memorial Gardens. Survivors were her husband, Walter “Walt” Ennis and a son, Gerald Ennis. Pauline Surles and Josephine Stone were her sisters (Daily Record Mar. 27, 1991).
Does anyone have any idea the number of individuals from the Coats Baptist Church who have been on mission trips? The number continues to grow today but it was in 1991 that Kent Turlington, David Barnes and Steven Wilkie had returned from a mission trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil where they had helped build churches and witness to the lost (Daily Record Mar. 28, 1991).
The old 1914 Coats High School building had been moved to a new location where it would be refurbished into an area museum. On Monday, outside of Coats, death had visited the family of J.C. Johnson, Jr. His wife Charlotte Barbour Johnson, 54, had lost her battle with cancer. Her funeral was at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church with Rev. Johnson Dorn officiating. Survivors were her husband, J.C. Johnson, Jr., and her two children-Joey Travis and Cathy Johnson (April 1, 1991). Charlotte was the daughter of Ben and Lucy Creech Barbour of Johnston County. Joe, Carlton, Louise, Elizabeth and Lana Sue were her siblings. Mr. Ben Barbour and his sons were house movers. In fact they moved the houses on 421 in the area around Campbell University which included the old Campbell House that you read about many columns back.
In two months, the Gregory family-Albert, Lane and Blake had expected to harvest about 20,000 catfish from their farm outside of Coats. In five years, they expected to harvest half a million of the horned fish. Lane Gregory operated the Lane’s Restaurant near McGee’s Crossroads.
The 79th Farmers Day Festival was planned for April 20th. Carolyn Moore, Glenda Denton, and C.J. Johnson were planning the event. Bob Etheridge was scheduled to be grand marshal for the parade (Daily Record Apr. 3, 1991).
Other news appearing in the April 4, 1991 Daily Record was that little Brittany Carroll, daughter of Linwood and Becky Carroll, had returned home from spending a few days at Duke and Raleigh Hospitals. Grady Matthews, G.R. Stephenson, Shirley Faye Hayes, Paul Pollard, Hermie Turlington, and Kenneth Turlington were local residents who had been very ill in hospitals.
Another Coats lady had died. Miss Mary E. Stephenson, 88, of Coats, had died on Thursday. She was buried at Devotional Gardens with graveside services by Rev. Ralph Byrd (Daily Record Apr. 5, 1991).
Little Mandy Parrish, daughter of Ronnie and Sue Parrish, was a finalist in the Harnett County Spelling Bee (Daily Record Apr. 9, 1991). What grade was Mandy in when she competed?
I do know that the Coats Motor Co. Inc. had earned Chrysler Corporation’s highest dealership honor, “Award of Excellence”. This was the third time the honor had been given to the Coats dealership (Daily Record Apr. 10, 1991).
How many of you can recall that a car salesman would sometimes visit folks in the country sharing what cars were available to purchase at a certain dealership? As a small girl I remember some from Benson and Coats visiting when we were barning and later grading tobacco telling my dad a new Ford, Chevy, or Chrysler would be arriving soon at the local dealerships.
Several favorite stories have been shared to us about that dealership. One is the fact that cars were early on delivered in boxes on the Durham and Southern Railroad and had to assembled by the mechanics. Sometimes extra parts came and Mr. Guy Stewart had enough extra parts to make a rail around his front porch. Sadly later when times were really tough, he had to make a decision to lose his business or his house and he decided to lose his house. Fortunately, times improved and he was able to build the lovely house across from the current post office.
One of our treasured items in the museum is the sales journal from around 1939 from the Chrysler dealership that shares the names of the people who purchased or traded cars.
The Coats Woman’s Club Treasurer, Christine Parrish, presented a check for $200.00 to the Coats Museum Construction Chairman James Grimes (Daily Record Apr. 11, 1991). It took folks such as these to build the beautiful Coats Museum.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McGee of Route 1 Benson had announced the engagement of their daughter, Sharon McGee, to Brian Kelly Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson of Route 3, Dunn (Daily Record (Apr. 12, 1991). Do you think they knew that she would one day serve as principal to several of our Harnett County Schools?
The volunteers are so excited about our Third Edition of the Defenders of the Red, White and Blue. The years of work were for the thousands of veterans who served in the military. The 400 page book is the work of love from the museum volunteers. A limited number of copies are on sale at the Coats Museum for $20.00 on Sunday afternoons and on Thursdays.
Devon Moore has been honored with many memorials this week by the following: Glenn and Margaret King, Edward Hodges, Rhonda Owen, Sue Leonard, Doris Bell, Kim and Andy Sledge, Hilda Pope, Sandra Howard, Ralph and Lorena Denning, Margaret House, C.T. Clayton, Robie and Lynda Butler and Gayle and H. L. Sorrell. Thank you goes to Hope and family and to all those who loved Devon.