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              <text>Chief of Police Lurie P. Poston stands with his police car on Broadway. &lt;br /&gt;Visible in the background is a liquor store that later became a garden shop and now Health Care Partners (right), as well as a small white building removed when the parking lot was added for Turner's IGA. To the right - Johnsonville Pharmacy and Venters' Department Store. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Lurie Poston (1900-1973) was the son of Preston Poston and Julia Miles. He was born in Hannah and moved to Johnsonville in 1934, where he was both a merchant and a farmer. He served as Chief of Police for 14 years and Magistrate for 16 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He married first to &lt;a href="http://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/admin/items/show/id/103"&gt;Christine H. Hatchell Poston&lt;/a&gt; (1904 - 1956) and at her death married Alphia McKenzie Stroud (1911 - 2004) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His children with Christine were: &lt;br /&gt;Uldine Poston Cooper (1926 - 2002) &lt;br /&gt;Lurie Preston Poston Jr. (1928 - 1991) &lt;br /&gt;Maisie Poston Ballou (1931 - 2012) &lt;br /&gt;Jean Poston McDaniel (1932 - 1979) &lt;br /&gt;Algie Ray Poston Cox (1936 - 2012)</text>
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