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| Interview Notes Notes for Jessica Christine LOWE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lettie remembers that Charlie and Jessie began dating when Jessie was about 15. Their mothers (Lizzie Black Lau and Esther Burgess Henderson) were friends, and Charlie and Jessie went to the same high school. Charlie finished high school but Jessie dropped out, for no particular reason -- just to stay home. Then she went to work in Greensboro at Cress's Drug Store. She lived with her father's sister, Jenny Lau while she was working in Greensboro. Jessie's father, Cyrus Lau, thought Charlie was "the stuff". Charlie bought Lettie a doll every Christmas when he was dating Jessie, but Lettie didn't want Jessie to get married at all. Cabel Phillips, Charlie's sister, didn't think Jessie was good enough for Charlie and offered to put him through medical school if he would agree not to marry Jessie. The day Granny and Papaw came home (to Jessie's parent's house in Julian) and told Lettie that they were married, Lettie ran to her bedroom and cried and cried for over an hour because she was so upset and distraught at the thought of "losing" her sister.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Luck of the Low's Granny had one of the first push-button phones and loved to enter the dial-in radio contests run by local AM rock station WCOG. Her phone gave her a distinct adVAntage over the rest of the rotary dialers, and she often won. She called herself "Cherrie Henderson" when she would give her name to the station's DJ and she had a drawer full of vinyl albums, t-shirts and other prizes to show for her efforts. Stephanie and I were often the ultimate benefactors. When I was about eight, she and Stephanie entered a local Mother's Day contest on my behalf. I think that contest was also sponsored by WCOG. They sent in a drawing I had done (a burro with a little cart and a Mexican in a sombrero) along with a poem they had written, as if I had written it myself. My entry was selected and mom, dad and I were picked up by a long black limousine and taken to dinner at the La Chateau in Burlington. It was all quite grand. It was spring or summer, and I work my favorite little dress which was covered in rose bouquets with blue ribbons. Susan (Corder) and Kim (Stone) followed along behind us in their white Camaro and snapped pictures as if we were "important" people. Granny did have uncanny luck. She was always a little "mystical" and had an astonishing imagination. She used to warn me and Stephanie not to stray from the yard into the woods because there was an old witch who ate children who lived through the woods. She would tell us stories, some scary, but none of which I remember except for the witch in the woods.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments Notes for Charles Hubert (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comment: Charles was named for Uncle Charles Mangrum Henderson who was killed at the age of 22 in a sawmill accident.3 Comment: Charles was a President of the Greensboro Fire Fighters Association and a member of the International Fire Chiefs Association. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NOTE: Related to Thelma Schoolfield in 1998 by Murphy Borwn (the only remaining one of the infamous group who stopped the trains for a day at Julian, NC). The boys used lubricating oil from the Julian Chair Factory (diagonally across from the railroad station) - using an old coffee pot, they oiled the rails on the incline from the railroad station (west towards Greensboro). The night train could not get up enough steam and forward momentum to make it up the grade, even backing some distance and making a speed run for the incline. The culprits were Laster, Murphy and Jim Brown, Charles and John Henderson and J. Norman Deviney. J.Van Henderson worked with his dad, A. H. Henderson at the depot and didn't participate. He worked with the mail sacks.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 23 Jul 2006 | Created 8 Feb 2007 Laura K. Henderson |
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