John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

This day in history, January 20, 1801, John Marshall was appointed U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.

John Marshall had a sister named Hannah Elizabeth Marshall .

Hannah married Zachariah Petty. They are my ancestors.

So, John Marshall, Supreme Court Justice is an in-law of mine. How do you think I got my job at the Post Office$

1965 World's Fair, Us

 

The 1965 NEW YORK WORLD;S FAIR. Near the near center right are my folks: my late mother, Ethel Janie Petty Hunter, sisters Bonnie an Frances Hunter.

And Hey! That’s me behind the camera

Descendants of William A. Hunter/Trammell & Emaline Ray

 

1.  Charles Jefferson Hunter (1865-1954).

2.  Arminta Jane Hunter (1866-1955).

3.  John Rafas Hunter (1870-1955).

4.  William Jason Hunter (1875-1896)

5.  Frank Paris Hunter (1879-1950)

6.  Oscar Ray Hunter (1884-1963)

7.  Arthur Riley Hunter (1884-1967

1. Charles Jefferson Hunter (3 Sept 1865 Macon Co., NC - 15 Feb 1954 Cherokee Co, Ga).  Charley owned Hunter's Store.  In the store was a small post office of the community of Kelp, which he was the postmaster.  He also wrote a weekly local society/gossip column for a Canton newspaper.  The name of the column was Hunter's Store.

He eventually moved next door to his father on Main Street, Woodsock, Ga.  His land low is a subdivision.

Charles first married Paraline Victoria Dobbs (25 Oct 1861-30 Jun 1897), daughter of Franklin Green Dobbs (1829-1862) and Clarissa Clara Mayfield (1836-1911).

Their Children:

A.  Clara Victoria Hunter (c1891-? ).  She married a Turner.

B.  Alfred Charles Hunter 15 May 1891- Cherokee Co, Ga - 3 Nov 1973, Kenville, Tx.  He became a dentist, moved to Tecas and married Mamie "May" Akridge (18 Oct 1892, Summerville, Ga - 18 Apr 1933, San Antonio, Tx.)  

They had one son:

Akridge Charles Hunter (1917-1997)

Akridge Charles Hunter (26 Jul 1917-Pleasanton, Tx - 14 Jan 1997. Houston, Tx) Alrodge also became a dentist. He married Helen Crain (4 Aug 1920, Pleasanton, Tx-7 Apr 2003, Richmond, Tx)   Akridge and Helen came to a Hunter Reunion in Marietta, Ga., in the early 1980s.

They had 3 daughters:

(1) Josana Elaine Hunter (1950-    )

(2) Paula Jean Hunter (1954-    )

(3) Holly Ann Hunter (1957 -   ).

(1) Josana Elaine Hunter (14 Dec 1950, San Antonio, Tx-   ) married Alan Wagner (14 Jan 1948, Ft Lewis, Wa)

Children:

a. Jovan Elaine Wagner (1982-    ).

b. Rachel Michelle Wagner (1985-     )

(2)  Psuls Jeane Hunter (5 Jan 1954, San Antonio, Tx) married Nathan Rakestraw..

Child

a.  Nathan Rakestraw.

(3)  Holly Ann Hunter (12 Sept 1957, San Antonio -    ) married Daniel Cliff Huston.

Children:

a.  Lana Huston (1993-      ).

b.  Hayley Huston (1995 -    )

c..  Dolly Mae Hunter (aft 1892-     ? ).  She married a Pips.  She was a school teacher.  Her husband was wheelchair bound

d. Eva Bell Hunter (21 Aug 1895 - 30 Jul 1973, Beaver, Pa).  25 Jul 1920, Fulton Co, Ga., she married J. Harvey Poor (25 Mar 1896, Holly Springs, Ga - 30 Jul 1969, Allquippam Pa) Harvey served as an airplane mechanic in France during WWI.

n 1922/23 (between births of 2 daughters) moved family to Aliquip a, Pa in serach of work.  He was a machinist for J & L Steel Ccmpany.

- Christie Sullivan.  

They had 3 children:

(1) Marjorie Lee Poore (1922-2012).  She married John Patterson Osborne (1918-1997), born in Fayette City, Ps, and died in Chattanooga, Tn. Marj worked primarily as a homemaker, although she did office work during the war. She would stay with her parents during the week and work, and then go by train to stay with John's family on the weekends. She also briefly worked outside the home after they relocated to Chattanooga. Aft er John's death, she moved in with her daughter Margie. She is very active in her church and keeps busy with sewing projects for her grandchildr en and great-grandchildren.

- Christie Sullivan

John worked for the railroad prior to getting drafted (he was stationed in Hawaii & fought in the Pacific campaign). After the war he went to s chool and became a draftsman, working for Combustion Federal. In 1960 he w as transferred to Chattanooga, TN. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Chattanooga, TN.

- Christie Sullivan

They were married 31 Aug 1942, Cumberland, Md

They had 2 daughters:

(a) Marge Louise Osborrne (1947-      )  Marge married H. Edgar Talley, son of Hosmer & Belle Talley, 1974 in Ringgold, Ga.Margie attended Techoa Falls College for 1 year. She worked for years at Chubb Insurance in Chattanooga, but was laid off in the 1990s. She took t he Civil Service exam and has been working at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga since then.  Ed served a stint in the Air Force, out in Nevada or New Mexico before meeting Margie.

They had one daughter:

(.1) Jennifer Lynn Talley (1976, Chattanooga, Tn -   ).  She married Terrell Allen Stallings (1974, Ga)

Jennifer received her education degree from UTC, and teaches at Westside E lementary School in Whitfield County, GA - Christie Sullivan. Terrell is certified in landscaping and is currently employed by Dalton Pa rks & Recreation department.

- Christie Sullivan

(b) Mariane Faith Osborne (1948, Fayette City, Pa  -  ) She mary Gary Leslie Sulllivan (1940, Nashville, Tn -     ) 24 Aug 1968- Chattanooga, Tn.-     ), son of Irvin Sullivan and Jessie Mae Bass

Marian received her BA from Tennessee Tech in Accounting. After settling h er family in Powell, TN, she went to UT and got her teaching certificat e. She has been a teacher for 20+ years at Halls Elementary School in Knoxville, TN. - Christie Sullivan.

Gary received his EE from Tennessee Tech, where he was also in ROTC. He se rved 4 years in the US Army and then took a job with TVA in Knoxville, T N. He took early retirement in 1988 rather than be transferred to Chattano oga, and then worked as a Project Control Engineer in Oak Ridge, TN. Curre ntly he has his own business, Sullivan Services Group, and does contract p roject control jobs. He also retired from Naval Reserves. - Christie Sullivan

They had 3 daughters

(b)Mariane Faith Osbourne (1948)

(2) Elizabeth Rae Poore (1923-2011) Born in Alquippa, Pa.  Cremated.  Married Leonard Boone Johnson.my great-aunt Betty pasted away (Elizabeth Rae Poore Johnson) this past Thursday. She's been having kidney issues since late summer, and died during a "routine" kidney stone procedure.

Her body is being cremated (like her husband's was) and the family is having a memorial service this Friday in Brookville, PA.

Here is the link for the obituary, although there is not much to it.

<http://www.thecourierexpress.com/courierexpresscourierexpressobit/941288-380/elizabeth-r.-johnson.html>

Christie

Len worked in the wire dept at J & L Steel Co.   He lost his battle with stomach cancer..

They had 2 children

(a) Virginia Lee Johnson (1940-1986)

(b0 Ralph Leonard Johnson (1942-     )

(3) Harvey Eugene Poore (1928-1973)

(3) Harvey Eugene Poore (1928-1973).  He was born & died in Aliquippa, Pa.  He married Anita Certone (1928-  ) He was a lathe machine operator,  After Harvey passed away Nita began teaching.

They had 3 children:

(a) Mary Ann Poot

(b Michael Harvey Poore

(c) Raymond Edward Poore

Charles Jefferson Hunter and Paraline Victoria Dobbs had 3 daughters:

E. Anna Laura Hunter 

F. Katherine H. Hunter

G. Ruth H. Hunter

E. Anna Laura Hunter  (aft 1887 - ?  West Palm Beach, Fl).  She married  Turner.

F. Katheine H. Hunter (af 1898 - ? )

G. Ruth H. Hunter (31 Jul 1917 Woodstock, Ga - 24 Mar 1965, Cherokee Co, Ga..  She married Pete Mauldin.  

They had one daughter

(1)  Letha Mauldin

2.  Arminda Jane "Nin" Hunter (22 Dec 1866, Franklin, Macon Co, NC- 31 Dec 1955, Woodstock, Cherokee Co., Ga.  She married Lewis Franklin Poor (18 Jan 1860, Columbus, Muscogee Co, Ga - 18 Nov 1937, Woodstock, Cherokee Co, Ga). They are both buried in Enon Cemetery, Woodstock, Ga.

Their children.

A. Albert Franklin Poor (1885-1956)

B. Lassie Irene Poor (1886-1974).

C. Jesse Paul Poor (1887-1888)

D. Warren Weslet Poor (1890-1955)

E.  Harvey William Poor (1893-1959)

F.  Lillian Louisa Poor (1885-1970)

G.  Cecil George Poor (1897-1982)

H.  Ida Rebecca Emaline Poor (1902-(1971)

I.   Eva Octavia Poor (1904-1999)

A.  Albert Franklin Poor (15 May 1885, Cherokee Co, Ga  28 Apr 1956).  Albert was born and died in Cherokee Co., Ga.  In Louiseville, Ky, he married Ruby Lee Burton (3 A[r 1895, Cartersville, Ga - 6 Dec 1936, Woodstock, Cherokee Co, Ga.  They are buried at Enon Cemetery, Woodstock, Ga.

They had the following children:

(1) Albert Franklin Poor, Jr

(2) Lewis William Poor (1920-2007)

(3) James Henry Poor (1923-1990)

(4) Leroy Burton Poor (1925-2018)

(5) William Turner Poor (1931-    )

(1) Albert Franklin Poor, Jr.  (15 May1885,, Lexington, Ky- Sept 1951, Atlanta, Fulton Co, Ga).  He married Ruby Lee Burton, 2 Apr 1895, Cartersville, Ga - 8 Dec 1936, Woodstock, Cherokee Co, Ga), daughter of William Burton and Laura Brannon.  Allen and Ruby Lee are buried in Enon Cemetery, Cartersville, Ga.

They had 5 sons:

1) Albert Franklin Poor, Jr 8 Apr 1918, Lexington, Ky- Sept 1951, Fulton Co., Ga).  He married Lena Theaux, in 1945, Philadelphia, Pa.  He is buried at the National Cemetery, Marietta, Cob Co, Ga

(2) Lewis William Poor (17 Jun 1920-Cartersville, Ga - 8 Jul 2007).  25 Jun 1947, Woodstock, Cherokee Co, Ga. he married Sara Mae Howell (10 Aug 1924, Millcreek, 15 May 2013).

Sara retired in 1990 after 26 years with the Woodstock Public Library.

Obituary published by Woodstock Funeral Home:

Sara Howell Poor, 88, of Woodstock died Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Funeral services will be 2 P.M. Sunday at Woodstock Funeral Home Chapel in Woodstock with Rev Ken Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Enon Cemetery in Woodstock. Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

Mrs. Poor retired in 1990 after 26 years with the Woodstock Public Library. She was a member of First Baptist Church Woodstock where she taught toddlers for many years. Born in Mill Creek moving to Woodstock with her family in the mid-1930s. She spent the last five years as a resident of Golden Living Kennestone.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis W. Poor. 

Survivors include son, Jerry Poor of Powder Springs; daughters Jane Hancock and Jeanne Cosey, both of Woodstock; 8 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.

Lewis and Sara are buried at Enon Cemetery, Woodstock, Ga.

They had 3 children:

(a) Jerry Edmund Poor (1952 Woodstock, Ga -     ) Married Sonja Pharr (1955-    ).  They had one daughter.

(b) Melinda Jane Poor (1956, Woodstock, Ga -   ).  Married Robert Bradford Hancock (1949-   )

(c) Jeanne Marie Poor (1958, Atlanta, Fulton Co, Ga -     ).  1 Oct 1983, Woodstock, Cherokee Co, Ga, married Lewis Lee Michael Cosey (1953, Albany, Ga -     ).

They had 2 sons.

(d) James Henry Poor (1923, Woodstock, Ga- 1990, Woodstock, Ga.).  He died on his birthday.

James joined the Navy after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.  He had been in a techical school  in Toccoa, Ga., at the outbreak of the war.  He served on a seaplane tender as an aircraft mechanic in the South Pacific.

After returning home from the war he operated Howell-Poor Co (grocery) with his father-in-law Luther Howell.

-IMAGES OF AMERICA WOODSTOCK 1860-1970, Arcadia Press, BY Felicia S. Whitmore, p16

Jsmes Married Bernice Marie Howell (1825- Mill Creek Community, Cherokee Co, Ga - 2004 Woodstock, Ga.), daughter of Luther Howell and Mary Smith.  They are both buried  in Enon Cemetery, Woodsock, ga

(3) James Henry Poor (1923, Woodstock, Ga 1990 Woodstock, Ga)  He died on his birthday.

James joined the Navy after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.  He had been in a techical school  in Toccoa, Ga., at the outbreak of the war.  He served on a seaplane tender as an aircraft mechanic in the South Pacific.

After returning home from the war he operated Howell-Poor Co (grocery) with his father-in-law Luther Howell.

James married Bernice Marie Howell (1925 Mill Creek, Cherokee Co - 2004, Woodstock, Ga0 1946), daughter of Luther Howell & Mary Smith.

-IMAGES OF AMERICA WOODSTOCK 1860-1970, Arcadia Press, BY Felicia S. Whitmore, p16.  

(4) Leroy Burton Poor (1925, Woodstock, Ga - 2018, Kennesaw, Ga).  In WWII LeRoy served in the Navy as a Gunner's Mate.  He later served in Korea and Vietnam.

In WWII Leroy Poor was reported missing after his ship the USS Rich (DE-695) was sunk when it encountered a German mine at Utah Beach, Normandy, June 8, 1944.  Poor was one of several rescued at Sea.  Later he received the Purple Heart.

-IMAGES OF AMERICA WOODSTOCK 1860-1970, Arcadia Press, BY Felicia S. Whitmore, p16

20 Sept 1946, Woodstock, Ga., he married Mariam Annette Hicks (1928-2017), daughter of Albert J. Hicks and Lillie Mae.First liensed female real estate in Cobb ounty, receiving her liense in 1954

Owned Poor Realty and Mortgage Compny.

Memberof the Marietta Junior Woman's Club. They are buried atf Cheatham Hill Cemetery, Marietta, Ga.

They had four sons:

(a) Terry Hicks Poor (1950-      )  1971 he married Cynthia Delane Hambrick (1953 Dalton, Whitfield Co, Ga.   Terry was principal of middle school in Marietta that my son attended.  Also, he was neighbors with my cousin David.

They had two children:

(1) Heatther Adrianne Poor (1973-     )

(2) Terry Hicks Poor, Jr (1974-    )

(b) Albert Burton Poor (1954, Marietta, Cobb Co, Ga -  Married Wanda Lou Downer (1954 Chattanooga, Tn - bef 2017) .

They had 3 Children:

(1) Albert Burton Poor III (1975-   )

(2) Karen Sue Poor (1977-   )

(3) Miran Elizabeth Poor (1986 -   )

(c) Danny Michael Poor (1955,  Marietta, Cobb Co, Ga-    ),  1977, Marshall, Tx, he married Susan Ann Seabruck, (1950, Rapids, WI-     ).

They had 2 daugters:

(1) Ttacy Ann Marie Poor (1979-     )

(2) Jessica Leigh Poor (1982)

(d) Charles Denward Poor (1957-2023) 

(5) William Turner Poor (1931-    ).  He went to North Georgia College (a military college) and made a career as an Army officer.

William became a communicatons officer, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantrly Division, at Camp Kaiser, Korea.  He also served in Korea in 1970-71; Vietnam in the late 1960s.  He was stationed in Hawaii.  He retired as a colonel and became a programs and policy division chief for the office of Office of Army Inspector General at the Pentagon.

-IMAGES OF AMERICA WOODSTOCK 1860-1970, Arcadia Press, BY Felicia S. Whitmore, p18

13 Jul 1955, he married Ruby Anita Hall (1934-      )

They had 2 daughters:

(a)  Susan Armida Poor (957, Ft Benning, Ga -     )  1988, Marietta, Cobb Co, Ga, she married Larry L. Everett.

hey had one daughter.

(b) Sherl Anita Poor (1958, Columbus, Ga-     )  Dec 1983, Marietta, Cobb Co, Ga, she married David Walker Shirley (1960, Centerville, Ms-    ).

They had three children.

2.  Lessie Irene Poor (18 Sept 1886, Cherokee Ci=o, Ga-- 9 Mar 1974, Meigs, GA).  9 Sept 1908,Cherokee Co, Ga. she married John Jefferson Turner (23 Mar 1880, Cobb Co, Ga - 19 Sept 1963, Meigs, Ga).  They are both buried in Sunset Cemetery, Meigs Co, Ga.

They had 7 children:

1. Edna Irene Turner (1907-   ?  ).

2. Ruth Elizabeth Turner (1909-1920)

3. Warren Franklin Turner (1911- 1976)

4. Frances Jane Turner (1918-1970)

5. Mary Louise Turner (1919-  ?  )

6.  Jack Stokes Turner (1922-1945)

7. John Lewis Turner (1924-  ? ).

1. Edna Irene Turner (1907-   ?  Mitchell, Ga).  Extracted from HUNTER'S STORE COLUMN:

Misses Eva and Ida Poor of Woodstock, spent Saturday with Miss Irene Turner.

24 Dec 1936, Camilla, Ga, she married Robert Elmon Eubanks (1901 Mitchell Co, Ga-1957 Mitchell Co, Ga).  He is buried at Mt Zion Cemetery, Mitchell Co, Ga.

2.  Ruth Elizabeth Turner (1909-1920) 

3. Warren Franklin Turner (1911 Marietta, Cobb Co, Ga- 1976, Cairo, Ga)  7 Nov 1936, Meigs, Ga, he married Elizabeth Howell (1917- ?    ).

4. Frances Jane Turner (1 Mar 1918, Marietta, Cobb Co, Ga - 1 Jul 1970, Pelham, Ga).  Jan 1937, Michell, Ga, she married Mayo Terrell Hancock, 3 Feb 1912, Ga - 16 May 1980, Ga.  Crem, Pincrest, Pelham, Ga).

5.  Mary Louise Turner (30 Sept 1919, Cherokee Co, Ga -   ?   )   15 Aug 1940, Mitchell Co, Ga., she married Roscoe Lindon Srickland, (28 Jul 1915, Mitchell Ga,  ?)

6.  Jack Stokes Turner (18 Apr 1922- 3 May 1945, Okinawa.  

7.  John Lewis Turner, Jr (8 Jul 1924, Colquitt, Ga -   ?    ).   28 Mar 1948, Meigs, Ga, he married Grace Hatcher (12 Mar 1928, Michell Co, Ga.-    ).

D.  Jesse Paul Poor (1887-1888) NEXT

E.  Warren Wesley Poor (1890, Fulton Co, Ga- 2 Jul 1955, Bensenville, Il-1995)  18 Dec 1923, Mishawaka, Ind, he married Donna Ralph (1895 Ohio Ky-1982 Bensenille, ;Il).

They had 2 sons:

(1) Ralph W. Poor (1924-2008)

(2) Wesley L. Poor (1946-2013)

F. Harvey William Poor (25 Jul 1893, Atlanta, Fulton Co, Ga - 29 Sept Lexington, Clark Co, Ky) 25 Jun 1921, Lexington, Ky, married Ema Frances Moore  (5 Dec 1892, Clark Co, Ky-Jul 1972, Lexington, Clark Co, Ky).  They are buried at Hillcrest Cemery, Lexington, Clark Co, Ky.

They had 2 daughters:

(1) Kathleen Lenore Poor (13 May 1926-Lexinonton, Ky -    ?    ) 18 Jun 1949, Lexington, Ky, married George Harvey Caughey, 5 May 1927, Auora, Il -    ?   )

(2) Geradine Moore Poor (19 Dec 1928-    ?    ), In Lexington, Ky, married Charles Robert Pope (25 Apr 1928-Harlan, Ky -   ?   )

G.  Lillian Louise Poor (6 Oct 1895, Atlanta, Fulton Co, Ga-15 Sept 1970, Canton, Cherokee Co, Ga.)  

26 Dec 1916-Cherokee Co, Ga, she married Charles Clifford Killian (10 Oct 1890-Blue Ridge, Fanning Co, Ga - 5 Apr 1983, Cherokee Co, Ga).  Charles worked for the Cherokee County Public Works Department.  Then they would camp at the work site areas.  Both mules and human muscle were required to keep the roads maintained.  While in the area he went to a box super at Bascomb Church near Woodstock.  There he met his future wife (Louise) .  He bought her box supper for her and dined with her and that was the beginning of their romance. - Jean Killian Pinyan

For 8 years Charles worked in Pickens County, over the prisoners working on the roads.

They are both bufried Cherokee Memorial Gardens, Univtter, Ga.

They had 5 children:

(1) Murray Walton Killian (1918-1992)  

(2) Barbara Esta Killian (1921-    ?  )

(3) William Hunter Killian (1922-   ?  )

(4)  Paul Clifford Killian 1925-1975)

(5) Jean Louise Killian (1927 ?  )

(1) Murray Walton Killian (1918-1992)  Murray married Mary Cook (10 Oct 1918-     ?), 2 Sept 1944, Bennetsville, SC.  

They had 2 children:

a.  Charles Clifford Killian (10 Oct  1954-     )  22 Nob 1981 married Mitzi Thompson (25 Feb 1960, Cherokee Co, Ga.

b.  Barbara Jean Killian (8 Oct 1960-     )    Married Michael Shelton,, 25 Jan 1979, Cherokee Co, Ga.

(2) Babara Esta Killian (1921 -    )  NEX

Franklin Garrett, Atlanta Historian

 

I started re-reading an Arcadia book about the history of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. If you haven’t been to Oakland Cemetery you need to go if you are interested in the history of Atlanta, Marthasville, and Terminus.

Atlanta’s late official historian of Atlanta, Franklin Garrett is buried in Oakland. Here is a picture I took of his and his wife’s marker.

Each time Franklin Garrett’s name comes up I am reminded of our one-time interaction.

During the period I live and breathed family history I called the Atlanta History Society and asked to speak to a Atlanta historian. Franklin Garrett answered the phone..

I asked him about my ancestor who was wounded in the Civil War during the time the Battle of Atlanta was going on. I wanted to know what part of Atlanta was his unit at.

Franklin told me to hold on and put me on hold. He came back in 10 minutes or so and told me Peachtree Creek, near what is now Piedmont Hospital. I have read that he was shot in the knee at a spring on Kennesaw Mountain. I asked him how could that be? He told me to hold on.

Fifteen or so minutes he came back and told me some units got separated. That spurned another question. He said hold on.

He came back in near 20 minutes and told me his theory.

Which caused me to ask another question.

He said something to the effect, “Can you keep you questions and ask them all at one time? I am having to walk up a flight of stairs for each question and it is wearing me out."

Caught again and again

 I just saw a picture on line of the Varsity on North Avenue in Atlanta.. I made about it and could not figure out how to transport to my facebook page. You know what the Varsity on North Avenue looks like anyway, so we will just skip that part, and I’ll rewrite the text from memory, which will probably won’t be word pe word:

In 1960, MHS Senior Day several of us skipped where we were suppose to go and went to Atlanta to a pool hall on the second floor on North Avenue, one block from the Varsity on Forest Avenue. We played pool for a couple of hours.

Afterwards we went down the stairs and was walking out the door when a car drove back slowly. In the car was Doctor Mussaurra (?) looking intently at us. Doc Mussaurra was the MHS Football doctor.

Strangely, about a few months earlier Dr. Musaurra drove by and saw us leaving Pasttime Pool & Grill at the corner of Waddell and Roswell Streets. This time he told Lloyd Cox, the principal, on us.

I don’t think it went very far. And when he saw us on North Avenue in Atlanta exiting a pool hall when we should have been on MHS grounds I don’t think the good doctor said anything.

Why bother?

haw haw haw!

 Posted 11 Years Ago:

oday in the Witcher Street Medical Building we were in the parking deck elevator when my ex cardiologist stepped in. He said something pleasant and concentrated on punching buttons on his smart phone until the floor he requested came, then the doors opened and he stepped out.

I said to Anna, "Did you recognize the guy who just stepped out of here?"

"Yes!"

The doctor was the one on duty when I had my heart attack in 2004. He had me taken to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta and he put in several stents. Several months later he went back in and replaced a stent that collapsed. Then Wellstar Kennestone was not authorized to do heart operations. But now they are.

Before the year was out he wanted to open heart surgery on me. He led me to believe I wouldn't have long to live if he did not operate. He wanted to open up my chest like a suitcase and start pulling and cutting things. I told him I wanted to get a second opinion.

I think he felt insulted. I know he was a little huffy over me getting a second opinion. He said he didn't have to prove anything to anyone.

Well, the second opinion said I did not need open heart surgery, and look! That was almost 10 years ago.

We changed doctors and haven't seen him since until today.

Luckily, being invisible he didn't notice us, so there were no unpleasant verbal confrontations.

Haw Haw Haw!

James Marian Prance colorized

 

Raiding a Moonshine Still in Cobb Counry.

 

Left to Right:  My dad Ed Hunter, chief of Cobb County Police, Marietta Journal reporter Bill Kinney.  Raid on largest still of its kind in Cobb County near Windy Hill Road in early 1950s.

 In high school my friend Paul (who is red headed) used to walk up to a female classmate with his hands stretched out and fingers making massaging motions saying to classmate Janet, who was also redheaded, “Red on the head like the head of Janet’s tixxies”.  As I remember, Janet politely ignored him.  Remember that for a moment.

A nephew died last week.  He was a minister...He preached all over the south, missionary in Ireland, and guest preached many places.  He had a following and reputation to be proud of.

He was a good mechanic.  When he worked for one church, the church also had classes for the youth, so required school buses.  As a part time job our nephew kept their busses running.

And he also was our mechanic when we needed one.  He used the churches' truck bay to work on our Pacer or what ever we had at the time.

His funeral was held at the church he worked and assisted preaching those many years ago.

When we pulled into the Church's parking lot  I immediately remember one time when I was there talking  to him about what our car needed the church's secretary brought a telephone message  to my nephew, the secretary was red headed Janet.

I  instantly recognized her.  I forgot if she remembered me or not or maybe she politely ignored me.

2 Marietta Mayors & 1 Marietta School Teacher (ret)

 

I saw in the Marietta Daily Journal this weekend a picture of Former Marietta Mayor Bill Dunaway and current Marietta Mayor Steve "Thunder" Tumlin at the UGA-Tech ball game. Not to be outdone by the MDJ , here they are again in the same picture, taken a few years ago, at a GOBAG meeting sandwiching Mrs. Howell, our Marietta High School science teacher. I think then their titles were switched around some. Bill was current Mayor and Thunder was Mayor-To-Be, or something like that..

Ice Storm of 196 and Visiting Mrs Latimer

 

Ice Storm of March 1961. When the storm came it was during the night. In March 1961, we woke up to a frozen white Winter Wonder Land. I worked in Atlanta at the time and it was too dangerous to try to drive to work. So, I called in. So did all my friends that were not away at college. We went out to play on the frozen slippery terrain.

Larry got a near worthless used car from his father's used car lot and we rode around and learned a lot about the physics of driving on slippery ice. We went to Town & Country Shopping Center, which was empty of customers' cars because of the weather and used the wide open spaced parking lot as a training ground. We would spin, get speed up and slam on the brakes en enjoy the slide. Later we tried climbing a steep hill and I forgot what happened but it put an end to our riding that car.

The steep hill was leading off Powder Springs Street across from Garrison Road. We were just a block or two from the Marietta Country Club. We got the idea of going up to the golf course and sliding down the big hill there on the green. When we walked up to the Country Club we realized we were not the first ones to think of sliding down the hill on the golf course. Many kids were there sliding. They had serving trays they were using that they slipped in and got from the dining or kitchen area of the club. Other kids had flattened big cardboard boxed, and even one group of kids brought a car hood they rode on. I tried a serving tray, a cardboard flattened, but finally got the not so bright idea of riding down on a round red Coke sign, which the face of it was facing the ice. I started down the hill, picked up speed, and for some reason the Coke sign started to spin, or I should say the Coke sign and I started to spin faster and faster.

The Coke sign became a runaway out of control Coke sign. I couldn't get off or guild it. At the bottom of the hill is normally a pretty little pond. That day it was partially frozen . I hit the pond, it may have skidded to put me more in the middle, then sunk.

It was almost thigh deep in cold icy water. I walked out. The fun was over.

I needed dry pants. My pants were sloshing and about to get stiff with ice. I was walking. I lived on Richard Street which was about 2 or miles away, one block from the 4-Lane, across the highway from the future White Water Amusement Park.

Sometimes I can be resourceful when it comes to surviving. I sloshed and crinkled my way across town, about halfway home to Colonial Circle, where Mrs. Latimer lived.

My friend Gene "Jenky" Latimer was killed in a drag race the previous May or early June. I knocked on Mrs. Latimer's door. She was happy to see an old friend of Jenky's. I told her my pants were wet, could I borrow a pair of Gene's pants. She gladly gave me a pair, which I went to the back and changed into. Then Mrs. Latimer baked us some banana-nut bread, which we had with hot apple cider.

Still, each time I ride by Colonial Circle off Fairground Street, or eat banana bread I think of that day

Osmo & Stanley Petty in Detroit

This picture is first cousins Stanley and Osmo Petty, before 1941, in Detroit. Siblings Osmo and Opal Petty went to Detroit to find employment, they heard it was easy to get a job in Detroit. Their first cousin Stanley Petty went with them. I think they had no trouble finding jobs, also no trouble getting into fights. Opal told me Osmo loved to go to bars and get into fights.

NYC 1st Visit

 

New York City is on our minds lately as we are making plans of being there in a couple of weeks. My first visit to the Big Apple comes to mind.

It was in late August 1963. In the Navy I had just arrived at my new assignment at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, Helicopter Utility Squadron Four (HU-4).

In the barracks I was assigned a cubical that I would share with three other men. HU-4 supplied helicopter support to non-aviation ships. So, at all times I think there were at least 100 men in helicopter detachments on ships. The good part is they were not in the barracks. So, although my cubical was for four men, two were all on detachments.

The one remaining man (besides me) in the cubical was a little short guy named Marlow from Maryland.

Marlow was witty and on top of what you said. Nothing got by him. We introduced ourselves and somehow Marlow knew I have never been to New York City.

He said, “Lets go, it is just up the road (60 miles).”

We took the bus to New York City that Saturday morning.

I was very impressed as we started declining down a spiral road. Right then, from the Jersey side the city looked big and overwhelming.

We went through a tunnel under the Hudson River. I don’t remember if it was the Lincoln Tunnel or the Holland Tunnel.

Then, out tunnel and into the city. I saw buildings with clothes lines between buildings, some people with their torsos half out their windows talking to people on the street. Then the bus when into the huge Port Authority building, a terminal for buses.

Marlow and I walked down 42nd Street and Times Square, with me being amazed at everything I saw.

Then we took a subway to either the Bronx or Brooklyn. We visited a relative or friend of Marlow’s for a while then returned to Manhattan.

I don’t remember what we saw then, it all blended in with my awwness.

When it got dark, back to the 42nd Street area with all the carnival loud come-ons and music. We went into, if I remember correctly the Peppermint Lounge with Chubby Checker, or a Chubby Checker look-like singing “THE TWIST”.

Then as it got late, we had planned to go to the cheapest place in town to sleep, The William Sloan Y.M.C.A. house.

Just as we arrived in the front a young Italian or Greek looking man emerged from the darkness and asked if we were looking for a place to crash.

I knew what he was up to and said no.

He was persistent and offered that Marlow could stay with him and he would pay for my room at the Sloan House. What a deal for me!

I think Marlow knew what he was up to too.

He walked me inside the building and he paid the desk clerk. He probably got a discount for being a repeat customer.

Marlow and I agreed to meet at Port Authority the next day at whatever time.

The bad thing about the William Sloan House the rooms did not have bathrooms. You had to go to a public bathroom and share the facilities with about 20 other men.

The next morning, I explored by myself and discovered the New York Public Library was on 42nd and 5th Avenue and other places… got to hear several street singers at a little park behind the library.

I reported to the Port Authority at the preplanned time and Marlow wasn’t there. I suppose they were having one for the road.

I went into the bar and had a drink, a Manhattan, I think. Then another. After the second one I went to the telephone booth and looked up Harvey Kurtzman, creator of MAD Magazine He was my hero, as Charlie Brown said, I just mildly worshipped the ground he walked on. I found his name living in, I think, Mt. Vernon, New York, just outside the city. The two Manhattans swelled my balls, so I called him!

He answered the phone!

He was very pleasant. We swapped a few one sentence notes via mail for the next few years.

Marlow finally showed up and the code of silence was, without saying, was placed on us, I was not to ask what went on with him and his new friend and well, “what happened in NYC stays in NYC”

We got back in time to dinner in the chow hall.

In the chow hall line I met Don Lash, who became a lifetime friend. In line I told him I just saw New York for the first time.

Don, being a people person, who can tune into your frame of mind, horned in I was hiding something, and he lit up smiling pumping we with questions.

And that was my first trip to New York City. Many more visits over the next two years and the last one not long after Anna and I got married, about 1970.

And now here we go again!

Postcard of William Sloan YMCA in NYC.

Osmo Petty & Johnny Rollins

 

My late uncle Osmo Calvert Petty on facebook for the benefit of his offspring who mostly live in Indiana. The below was taken in the Cohutta area of Murray County, Georgia. Osmo and his friend Johnnie Rollins

Granny Foster

 

Myrtle Irene “Granny” Jones Foster (1895-1991). Granny is Anna’s grandmother, her mother’s mother. Granny was born and raised in the Milton- Alpharetta, Georgia, area. She had 6 siblings, 5 sisters and a brother.

Irene married Paul Everette Foster. They had eight children, four died at birth. Paul was a Singer Sewing Machine Salesman. They moved to Marietta, Georgia. Paul died as a young man leaving Irene to care for their four children. They lived all around Marietta. On several streets I see the houses or lots they used to lived in. They jokingly said they moved often, when the rent was due. But I think they probably moved in town during school months and further out during growing season.

Irene took over part of her late husband’s skills. She became a Singer Sewing Machine repair person. She also was Nannie and practical nurse. All her four children reached adulthood and did good with families of their own.

King Kong, Empire State Bldg, & Alfred E. Neuman

 

Darlene & Me

 

This is Darlene and me at Anna's retirement party a few years back. Anna and Darlene were co-workers. Darlene and I used to ride together going to Kennesaw Junior College at night. By her expression it looks like I am reminding her of the time we skipped class and went to her apartment complex's beer party and an ex-nun drunk us under the table.

Stan Lee, Spider Man, & the Bagleys

 

Some pictures of my cousin Patti Hunter Bagley and her husband \Mark rubbing elbows with Stan Lee. Actually, Stan was Mark’s boss. Mark is one of the artists of the comicbook SPIDERMAN.

When I think of Stan Lee I think of many years ago he gave a starving artist (cartoonist), my hero, Harvey Kurtzman a job writing the HEY LOOK! Series fillers for MARVEL Comics. Harvey went on to create MAD Comicbooks and MAD Magazine.

How Lances & Hunter Got in Union Co, Ga

 

Bethany Baptist Church, Union County, Ga. I don't know the relationship of John and Joseph Lance, but by surname and location I think they were related. Back in early Union County, Ga days dueling was legal. If one had a dispute with someone, you could challenge him to a duel. Also, it was legal not to fight your own duels. You could hire someone to stand in for you. Joseph Lance lived in North Carolina, and was called to Union County, to professionally stand in for someone in a duel. Joseph won. Joseph like Union County, Ga. He thought the local folks were so nice and polite, he decided that he and his family would move there, which they did. Joseph Lance (1809-1879) was married to Elizabeth Hunter (1799-1875), my distant cousin and daughter of my ancestor John Hunter. I think John Hunter and his family probably moved to Union County about the same rime their oldest daughter moved there, to be close to his grandkids.

HOTLIPS of MASH & PLAYBOY CLUB Singer

 

This is Veteran’s Week, and Friday will be Veteran’s Day. Of course both the day and the week are to pay tribute and say “Thank You For Serving” to the men and women who served, and many times gave the ultimate, themselves.
All I can say is, “Aww Shucks, it wasn’t nothing.”
But now that we are talking about war and veterans of those wars. It reminds me of the movie named MASH and the TV sitcom of the same name. MASH was a field hospital in the Korean War in the early 1950s, which technically, hasn’t ended.
The TV version of MASH was the longest running war sitcom ever. The movie was first and also was a big hit.
In both TV and movie they had the same characters, mostly different actors, but same names.
In the movie MASH the main nurse got caught making out with a doctor and he said in a moment of passion she had hot lips. From then on her nickname was “Hot Lips!”
In the movie HOT LIPS real name was Major Margaret Hoolahan and played by Sally Kellerman (1937-2022).
After we were married but before kids, about early 1970s. I joined the PLAYBOY CLUB.
The first time we went to THE PLAYBOY in Atlanta we ran into Anna’s first cousin Franklin and his wife Karhy. We sat together.
The entertainment that night was a country and western band. I forgot the name of it, but I recognized the female lead singer. It was HOT LIPS!
True.
At their first break I went down front and asked her was her name Sally Kellerman. She smiled and said yes. She was very friendly. Maybe she was worried that I might have a sack of rotten tomatoes hidden under our table. I think she was just starting in the music entertaining business.
HOT LIPS