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MY COUSIN L.C. (BUD) IRVIN WHO MARRIED EVA LEE BLAYLOCK, TOOK MY SON AND ME TO THE IRVIN CEMETERY "JUST ACROSS THE LINE" A FEW YEARS AGO WHERE MR. RIGDON IRVIN AND MARY ANNA LOWERY ARE BURIED. SOME ONE HAD STOLEN HIS TOMB, BUT HER'S IS STILL THERE. TO SEE IF THEY KNEW ANY THING ABOUT IT, WE WENT NEARBY TO TALK TO THE IRVIN SISTERS. ONE OF THE THREE OLD MAIDS WAS MY FIRST GRADE TEACHER AT SIPSEY FORK SCHOOL. AT BUD'S INTRODUCTION, SHE SAID TO MY SON :"OH, I REMEMBER YOU! YOU'RE THE ONE SO SMART IN YOUR BOOKS". HER MIND WASN'T SO GOOD, BUT HER MEMORY SURE WAS! SHE EVEN REMEMBERED ME ASLEEP AT MY DESK WITH A BOOK OPENED UPSIDE DOWN TO A 2 PAGE PICTURE OF A BATTLESHIP. AN INCIDENT MY MOTHER HAS VERIFIED. WE MOVED AWAY FROM LOST CREEK AFTER THE WAR
STARTED. MY FATHER WORKED IN THE POWDER PLANT IN CHILDERSBURG, AL . 60 YEARS HAS GONE BY,
BUT I REMEMBER AS IF IT WAS YESTERDAY, LAMAR HAS THE MOST GOOD AND FRIENDLY PEOPLE AND I
AM PROUD OF OUR CONNECTIONS THERE. DAD IS BURIED AT WESLEY'S CHAPEL, AND SO WILL BE MY 86
YEAR OLD MOTHER, IDELLA CANNON IRVIN. SHE WAS EXPECTING ME WHEN THEY MOVED FROM THE
JAGGER'S PLACE ON LOST CREEK ROAD TO MY BIRTHPLACE ACROSS THE SIPSEY UP DRY CREEK. THEY
WERE CAUGHT IN A STORM IN MR. SCOTT'S BARN . MRS. SCOTT TOOK MOM INTO THE HOUSE TO CARE FOR
HER WHILE DAD AND A MR. TURMAN STAYED WITH THE TWO WAGONS AND TEAM IN THE HALL OF MR
SCOTT'S BARN. AFTER THE STORM THEY CONTINUED ON. I WAS BORN AS SOON AS THEY FINISHED
MOVING. MR. RIGDON IRVIN AND MARY LOWERY MOVED FROM S.C. TO NORTH ALA WHEN ROBERT WAS ABOUT 14. HE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN 16 WHEN THEY MOVED ON TO MONROE CO. MISS THERE WERE THREE BROTHERS , TWO MOVED ON WEST AND MR. RIGDON DECIDED TO SETTLE HIS FAMILY NEAR THE SIPSEY BECAUSE OF THE ABUNDANCE OF WATER. ONE BROTHER JOHN IS THOUGHT TO HAVE GONE TO TEXAS. THERE WAS ALWAYS TALK OF JOINING KIN IN TEXAS, OK OR ARK WHEN TIMES WERE BAD. MY GRANDFATHER, GEORGE AND GRANDMOTHER
ELIZBETH COGGINS OF PONTOTOC CO. MOVED TO TEXAS FOR ONE SEASON WHEN UNCLE WAS A BABY.
GRANDPA CUT FIREWOOD FOR THEIR PASSAGE ACROSS THE "M I CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER,
I CROOKED LETTER , CROOKED LETTER, I PP I, AS GRANDMA WOULD SPELL ONE OF MR. RIGDON' BROTHERS MARRIED ONE OF THE LOWERY GIRLS, MY GRANDMOTHER SAID THE IRVINS HAD TORRIE LEANINGS. AT ANY RATE GREAT GRANDAD JOSEPH IRVIN LAY OUT DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE AND A FRIEND HID AT AN OLD CHIMNEY WHERE FOOD COULD BE COOKED AND WARMTH COULD BE HAD. THEY HUNG WOOL BLANKETS TO HIDE THE FIRE. WHEN THE COAST WAS CLEAR, THEY WOULD SLIP OUT AND WORKED THE FARM. JOSEPH ESCAPED FROM THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE OLD ATHENS COURT HOUSE & JAIL, WHEN "PRESSED" THE 1ST TIMED . THE 2ND TIME HE WAS CAUGHT AT HOME WHILE WORKING THE FARM . HIS WIFE SUSAN SAID IT WOULD BE A SHAME NOT TO EAT THE HOT MEAL SHE HAD JUST COOKED BEFORE LEAVING! JOSEPH ACTED SICK AND WENT TO THE PORCH TO " THROW UP" .HE WAS NEVER CAUGHT AGAIN. WHAT ELSE-----
THANKS AGAIN, JAMES AND DEAN IRVIN, TAMPA, FL |