Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-23
AN 0lD-TlMER WRITES ABOUT GREENE
COUNTY YEARS AGO.
Stockton, Cal. Oct. 9th 1908. =

Eul COl VI OlCCuC OOuutJ OOAaAtJ
Herald Through the courtesy of
an old time friend of Adamsville, /
recently received three copies of
your paper.
To say that these papers stirred
up the old time memories to a very
great degree is, but putting it feeb-
Iy. Why sir, | counted no less than
dozen electrified "reminiscences
playing prisoners base" along and
around the region of my spinal
column.
When | was a boy attending school
in little log house just south of
Flat Creek between where then
lived old Powell Avera and Old
man Landlord, | used to read with
much interest from "The South
ern Reader" a poem written by
Southern youth in the North. |
do not now remember the title of
this poem but it ran something like
this:
Il sigh for the land of the cypress and pine
Where the moss droops low from tho
green oak tree:
Where the jessamnes bloom and the gay
woodbine.
That sun bright land Is the land for me.
The summer has come and past
Cold winter is coming with it's blast.
The daisies in humble submission have
Bowed their heads.
They only sleeping not dead,
Oh. what pleasant thought, with the
coming of springtime,
L ght showers OF rain, the reses will
bloom again.
! know now what that youth felt
.wnen he wrote that poem 1t has
now been thirty three years since
| left old Greene County. Twas then
young man, and now comes the
Herald stirring up those old men,
ores with such names as Leakes-
vile, Vernal, State Line and etc.
Then "Push" speaks of Felix Kim
Daus hdrlll, anu | wonder wnat
relation exists between this man
Bearing this eIlcltous cognomen and
ceE,a.n geo. W. Daughdrill who
used to STIR up we'll defined symp-
toms Of jealousy IN my anatomy in
the ola precincts of Buck Creek,
some thirty years ago.
Then Sweet Pea" mentions Abb
Breland's girls being in Betty
This sounds strange. The last time
the writer saw Abb Breland he con-
sidered himself lucky to have one
girl, and | have seen him more
than once with a handkerchief worn
in indication a slight. Again, who
are th'se young people Misses Ada
and Mamie Landlord, who went
fishing with yellow Curls?" Are
they related to Pleas Landlord who
made such vehement efforts to
master Websters speller in the old
school taught by James A. McCrory
in 1865?
Then we see j. A. Cochran is post
Master at Merrill; and DR.. Joe
Green-Doctor Joe Gleen!! and
Hon. W. C. Roberts. 1t may be
presumed that this DR.. Roberts is
a son of Henry Roberts who was
for long time Sheriff of Greene
County; but it needs no doubtful
presumption to say that if Joe
Green is as apt as physician as
he used to be in playing tricks
upon his brothers he will not lack
speed in going some" any where.
After all, it may have been Mar
Gus Green, who was so facile in his
funnyisms.
|. Well it would require a volume
to record the memories that crowd
around the writer At the mention
of those names. There was Old
Timer Green, Old Goose Pond
Jack McInnis, Old Tyre Roberts, of
Roberts Ferry, Cole Copeland, Asa
Breland, Kit" McInnis and One
Turner, who lost his first name le-
ultimately and became One Turner
to all who knew him. And Old
Bill Moody with his grand old
singing.
The picture of Old Greene County
is not complete without these good
old souls who have doubtless gone
to their home in the realm Beyond
the silent river.
Perhaps the reader who has gone
this far will wonder who this per-
son is who like Rip Van Wrinkle on
his return digs up the things from
the days of yore.
Well the writer as implicit in
the foregoing matter as a boy
lived one mile below Avera's on
the Chicasawhay river he was after
ward teacher at Buck Creek Adams
vile and elsewhere in that section;
he left for California in the year
1875 completed his education as
teacher here, taught school for some
years in California and he is now
an Attorney-at Law in Stockton
California. He has never forgotten
to love old Greene County Miss
issippi and her people and his name
is
BENZ, F. WULFF
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