tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post791911793437893395..comments2024-01-19T11:06:08.639-05:00Comments on In Country With Uncle Vic: The Cotton Gin - A Village No MoreBUZZ CREEKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-33199582341691012882024-01-19T11:06:08.639-05:002024-01-19T11:06:08.639-05:00Frances Holley -- I hope to make contact with you....Frances Holley -- I hope to make contact with you. Perhaps we can build on some of that grand history around the Gin. I also know that Marilyn Bowman who has the Ms Marilyn's Little Olives Child Care in Chumuckla -- grew up in Bagdad but had many relatives in Chumuckla. It is a rich history.BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-26513832000491078352024-01-18T19:58:31.264-05:002024-01-18T19:58:31.264-05:00HELLO MY NAME IS FRANCIS HOLLEY IM DESENDED OF MI...HELLO MY NAME IS FRANCIS HOLLEY IM DESENDED OF MITT JOHNSON MY AUNT AND FRANK HOLLEY MY GRAND DADDY MY DADDY WAS HENRY HOLLEY AND HIS SISTER WAS ANNIE PEARL. I SPENT SUMMERS THERE RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE RED CLAY ROADS GREAT TIMES. SUNDAY DINNER WAS ALWAYS AT AMITT HOUSE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-4568702152077940662023-02-19T21:10:32.738-05:002023-02-19T21:10:32.738-05:00Hello I'm the daughter of Mary(Suzanne) Causey...Hello I'm the daughter of Mary(Suzanne) Causey the daughter of Mary and George Causey. I would like to know more about this story and land. Could you email me Jacqulyn.carter1022@gmail.com.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-11119895400780804452014-09-28T08:46:44.027-05:002014-09-28T08:46:44.027-05:00Correction to the below original published version...Correction to the below original published version "One of the old houses from the black village near the gin was moved to Pace and is now a hair salon (near Allysa's). Lavern Howell gave us that bit of information. It is a bit of preserved history. That is said to be the former home of Alonzo and Mit Johnson. Before they occupied it – the house was used as a canning facility for cane syrup – a side business of the Pace Company. People recall going by those houses back in the 40's and 50's when they were alive with working and prospering families where the smell of pork roasting or the sight of laundry in the breeze were mesmerizing" The house we photographed was NOT the Alonzo Johnson house which was moved to a location near the black church on Gurnsey Road about a mile NORTH. This part of the column is corrected now in the column itself. Information supplied by PAUL COOK who runs the hair salon at the old mill worker house explained THAT house was built when the Pace Mill was in operation and his family acquired it - perhaps in the '30s. Paul Cook is the person who moved the old Alonzo Johnson house to Pace though. The house moved from Chumuckla is as noted, near the old black church. But at this point it is far from its former glory in appearance. I hope to get a photo of parts of it anyway.BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-63215531086894119252014-09-17T08:31:04.380-05:002014-09-17T08:31:04.380-05:00Brenda Joyce BozemanVic Campbell
Vic, Ann and I w...Brenda Joyce BozemanVic Campbell<br />Vic, Ann and I was trying to remember some of the folks that lived around the gin area. We came up with Frank Holly and Daisy Holly lived behind the gin across from the church and the old cemetery. Frank and Nessie lived on the corner of the springs road and the cemetery road. Miss Annie McNeal live next to them I think. Pardoner Moore was the yard keeper for Mr Joe Jernigan who live next to Will Thomas store Mr Jernigan was the overseer of the cotton gin and Daddy was the clerk. We moved to the house next to the Jernigan house in 1950 and Sam was borned there I was 12 yrs old . There was Jennie Knight and Bembo we only called him Bembo and I don't remember ever hear a last name. There was a family that live down the spring road that had some girls that help Daddy and Mom pick cotton before we move down there. One of the girls name was Ruth and the others we couldn't come up with. do you know the couple that live in the big house behind the store?BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-21246509761416774552014-09-17T08:24:07.168-05:002014-09-17T08:24:07.168-05:00Doug Davis corrected me on the demise of the Gin i...Doug Davis corrected me on the demise of the Gin itself. IT DID NOT BURN DOWN but was destroyed by tornado in 1972. He said Marty Griswold was there when it happened. I'll try to correct that in the text of the article. I missed that event because I was in Vietnam at the time. But I do vaguely recall that. I remember my dad used to love to go chase the tornadoes as they were spotted nearby. I think he got to the gin soon after it was hit.BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-67771723026219323482014-09-15T21:35:43.653-05:002014-09-15T21:35:43.653-05:00
Donna Tolbert via Vic Campbell
22 hrs ·
I love t...<br />Donna Tolbert via Vic Campbell<br />22 hrs · <br />I love this I remember the old gin... Ms Nizze babysit me we loved her .She would fix our lunch and we sat at the table she always stood at the kitchen counter we would ask her to sat down she never would. I never knew why I believe because my dad D.C. never treated her any different. I remember dad taking food and winter clothes to her we would run around her big wrap around porch.BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-31311890794028047102014-09-15T21:17:36.548-05:002014-09-15T21:17:36.548-05:00George Passed away before these pictures could be ...George Passed away before these pictures could be delivered to his family - and the story was only begun before he passed away. The funeral is in Milton, Sept 20 at the Primitive Baptist Church in Milton on Zero street. Trahan Funeral service of Pensacola is in charge.<br />BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-44599439115648669792014-09-15T21:15:10.779-05:002014-09-15T21:15:10.779-05:00More parts to the story -
George and his wife (Ma...More parts to the story - <br />George and his wife (Mary?) had six children. Michael, the oldest died before two years old by a car accident at the house. Otis and Suzanne both lived adult lives but died of cancer.Henry currently fights lung cancer. Two other sons are Dan and Arthur. It was Frank and Buster's sister's that were lost or went insane. They were Annett, Idella and (?) which was the one that died insane at Chattahoochee Mental Institution. These girls were AUNTS to Frank's daughter, Annie Pearl, who is the mother of IRMA in the photos here (Half sister to George). SO they were Irma's GREAT Aunts. Lena Langham (Myrtlene Pendleton) recalled one lady living alone? who she visited often an was known to her as AUNT ANNIE. (I wonder if this was Irma's mother).<br />BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12966442.post-44731776433352707592014-09-15T15:55:04.151-05:002014-09-15T15:55:04.151-05:00THIS FROM Cecilia Gavin ... "I was married to...THIS FROM Cecilia Gavin ... "I was married to Aubrey Gavin and for a couple of years in the mid '60 in what was known as the " old jernigan house" (where Daysha Griswold lives now) and between our house and Buster Holly's house lived a man whose name was Q.P. Kelley. He and Aubrey worked for John Pace."BUZZ CREEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866088379634990967noreply@blogger.com