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Hello everyone; hope you had a great week. I’ve said before how much I like the holidays but like most of you, I am glad when it’s over. It seems that during those times we have a tendency to forgot the every day problems and really enjoy life. Now we can go back to the stresses of every day living.
This week I only received one hand-written letter but it was most welcome. Jimmie Kathryn Woods-Morgan, who now lives in Dayton, Ohio, wrote about how much she enjoys the column and asked a question about something I really don’t have an answer for her.
She asked if Lowe Drug Store ever offered curb service? It seems as if I dimly remember something about it, but I don’t know if it was Lowe’s or Turnage, so help me out some of you.
Jimmie is the daughter of Jim Woods who was a long time Illinois Central conductor. She was married to Stanley Morgan who passed away several years ago when they lived in Nashville. She also said that she was a 1944 graduate of Water Valley High and regretfully I don’t remember her.
This column has connected me to so many people that I never knew and reconnected me to old friends that I haven’t been in touch with for over 50 years. I have been asked from to time to comment on politics but as I promised when I started writing not to write about politics or religion except in a general sense. I intend to keep that promise.
Someone once asked if I had ever been in politics and I answered that I had always been gainfully employed. I passed by the North Main Methodist Church on my visit during Christmas and I though how great it is to see a church that really looks like a church. The white building with the steeple seems to give out an invitation to go in.
It dates back to the 1890s and I hope it’s there another hundred years. It isn’t the oldest church or even the oldest Methodist church in town. The Wood Street Methodist was the oldest Methodist Church and my great-grandfather, Elijah Badley, Jr., was a charter member.
I can remember when the old building was standing, right behind what is now a furniture store, and at one time was Busby Chevrolet. The Presbyterian Church was the oldest in town and stood on the hill which is now Oak Hill Cemetery.
In fact, the church donated the land to the city for a cemetery and the first recorded burial was in 1834. Let me hear from you as your input has made Reflections a success over the last five years.
My email address is still charlescooper3616@sbcglobal.net or write me at P.O. Box 613189 Memphis, Tm 38101 and have a great year.
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