https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/9a0f322734ea1054b6afa9d89569884c.pdf bf3fcace464633d18ea66f67d660f0de PDF Text Text I' M :t-Tltl~ Wl~ l~Kl,V <>ll8'4:nv1~1t , II mlngway, s. c., Thuradoy, October 3, 1974 • a vis ers out Annn Pop Davis celebrated h r bir thday Sunday, Sept. 22. Sh wua born ln 1882. but to say h wa 92 years old would not be a r allatlc atatom nt. 'lbe dlmlnutlvo womon, who weighs only 96 pounds, appears ugolo 1. She waa the daughter of Mlrlah Pope and Wlllle Pope. Each of them belonged to differ nt Pope famllles in Georg town County where Anna was raised. Arter her rather died, her mother was married to a Williams. Anna's father was a pilot on a steam boat. In 1903 she was married to the late Prince Davis and from this Wllon were born six boys and ANNA POPE DAVIS two girls. The two oldest children died, one ln Infancy ••Jerusalem ls my happy and one at age ten. Another son point putt, putt, putt." ls also deceased. She recalled that her mother home.'' She was referring to In reflecting over her life on and Mr. Miley Lawrlmore's Jerusalem A.M.E. Church. She said that people tell her her 92nd birthday, Anna said mother were raised together. her mother remembered the Her mother, she said, would that at her age she is living on Civil War and oft times talked card cotton and wool and spin it someone else's time, but she with her about It. In regards to into thread and Mrs. says she is not. ''If other people her mother actually being a Lawrlmore would weave lt into want to disobey God and get etave, she said that while her cloth to make garments for their days cut off, that is their hard luck.,, parents actually belonged to their respective families. She quoted the Fifth Pope families , thereby being Her mother also spun yarn given the Pope name, her from which she knitted socks Commandment as her guide for mother was too young to and gloves to sell to the men living, and said all old people perform any menial labor who worked at Smith's Mill, a are considered as your mother .J except to mind the calves for saw mill. She said. ''Those were and father, and that she has the women to milk the cows and not cotton, they were wool. always honored the aged since get up the turkeys in the late Cotton would get wet through in she was a child and continues to 11 afternoons. bad weather, but wool would do so. c •'When someone does me a Anna went to school, and repell the water." l kind deed, or brings me from observation, must have She talked wistfully about her v been an outstanding student. mother' 8 cotton cards and something, I just say 'that's my v However, the school she wool cards, and her spinning blessings coming back'.'' Anna uses reading glasses, a attended was a one room wheel. She said she wished she building and school only lasted had them so she could share just for reading, and she can s for a three months term during them with her family and read a little without them, She r the winter. friends, remarking that in those wears them when she goes to During these terms , the days people had to move so the mall box so she can see how 11 students did ''gymnastic frequently they could not keep to sort the mail. She has never E exercises,• which she things for the sake of sentiment, been a patient in the hospital. f She has 32 grandchildren and ~ demonstrated with her agile and found it necessary to l body. They also learned the discard items when they no 28 great grandchildren. She was honored on Sunday c Books of the Bible. She noted longer served a useful purpose. that they didn't learn all the Recalling when ·her family with a delightful birthday , Books because the terms of lived on the Taylor farm when dinner given by her daughterschool were 50 short. Often she was young, she said you in-law, her grandchildren and 1t times, at the end of school the only received 25 cents for a days great grands. She was 1 teacher who taught that term work. ''You didn't get much for presented a beautiful cake with would be replaced the next your labor,'' she said, ''But then candles which denoted her age ' year, and the new teacher you didn't pay much for your of 92. Friends and members of : wouldhaveherownexercises to commodities either.'' She her family remembered her teach, which did not always mentioned that good cloth cost with gifts and she received coincide with what the former from four to six cents a yard, seven long distance calls during teacher had taught. .and a 25-pound bag of flour the afternoon. Guests at the party included Anna said, ''I tell these could be purchases for 60 cents. children today they are teally Anna recited a poem, •'There Ute Re~. and Mrs. Morris, Mr. blesaed with all the modern Will Be No Tears In Heaven'', and Mrs. Furman Dimery, Mrs. . conveniences they have.,, She which she learned in school in Curlee Dorsey, Mrs. Linda said the school of her day had her youth. She used so much Williams, Mrs. Ardus Lewis, board windows, and when the expression you would think she Mrs. Sabrean Thomas, Mrs. wind blew, they had to keep the was a graduate of a school of Lauren P. Brown, Miss Victoria window closed on the side the dramatic art. Her vocabulary ls Nestand, Veda Cooper and wind was coming from and keep astounding, and her memory Bryant Cooper. the one on the other side open belles her age as she gives for light. Also, they warmed by specifics of dates most people a chimney. Part of the children would not remember at all. would warm while the others Her husband died in 1935, dld their lessons, and then they leaving her widowed with six would change. Those children children, the youngest of which would go to their seats and the was six years of age. But she others would warm. managed well, and raised a She said sometimes there f mlly sh 1 j tly would be a room full of children a Although e she s us of. makesproud her home Williamsburg County 4-H and then some days there would with her son, Leroy Davis, and be only a few. 'Ibey had no way bis wife, Amelia, where she has Club will be having a Pullet to get to school but walk. In bad lived for the past six years, she Show and Sale on Saturday, weather they bad to cross has her own home still and it is October 12. Sale time starts swamps and bad, muddy completely furnished. She goes promptly at 10:00 a.m. at the places, and many could not once in a while for a short visit Carolina Warehouse here in Kingstree. Babcock sex-linked come for that reason. and airs it out. Anna recalled the first car Besides Leroy her children pullets will be auctioned off in she ever saw. She said it was · are Mildred Austin of lots of eight to the highest ' expected ln Georgetown, and Charleston, S. c.. Presena bidder. All pullets should be the people ~e all out on the Barrett of New York. Ke1U1eth ready to lay and have been sidewalk awaiting the Davis of Newark. N. J., and Joe vaccinated, wormed, and arrlvlal. She said, ••When it got {>avia of Johnsonville. treated for mites and lice. there, it was no blger than a She attended church on her Featured auctioner will be buggy, and the tires were no birthday as she does each Charlie Walker of radio WDKD. bigger than bicycle tires. Dr. SUnday she la able to do so. All persons who wish to bid on Black and his wife were setUng When asked which church she these pullets are asked to bring in it so proper like, and It was belongs to she replied, coops for their pullets. 1 4-H Pullet Show And Sale Is Scheduled � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Weekly Observer Description An account of the resource The Weekly Observer was published out of Hemingway, SC from 1973 until printing ceased in 2012. The paper continues as an e newpaper on scnow.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973-2012 Subject The topic of the resource Local Newspaper covering the Johnsonville and Hemingway communities. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Pope Davis Remembers Her Youth At Age 92, 10-3-1974 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-3-1974 News Newspaper Weekly Observer