The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Autobiographies

Last week we carried two auto
biography of Forest Hills seventh
graders. They created so much IA
vorable comment that we are going
to make today's feature out of auto
biographies Of the same grade and
school. 1t is, we believe, a splendid
feature-and we hope that you en-
JOY it half as much as we have.
My mother was Miss Ethel Bass
before she married my father,
Charles S. Lowrimore. Mother was
born in Laurens, S. c., and father
was born in Southport, in January
1901. They were married in 1922.
After their marriage they came to
Wilmington to live.
I was born in Wilmington in
January 1927, Of Anglo-Saxon-Irish
descent, two years after my brother.
1 was named John Theodore Lowri-
more after my grandfather. When
1 was about eight II nine months I
began to say, Daddy" and Moth
err" The first word 1 could spell was
candy" When l was very small,
we moved to Florence, S. C. I dis
tinctly remember, when I was two
years old, running away from home,
for apparently no reason at all.
When l returned home 1 received a
terrible spanking, and for some
reason have never run away again.
I entered school at the age Of six.
I always left my own book at home,
and for some reason, I would blame
it on mother. Aside from the fault
1 got along fairly well in my school
work. We moved back to Whining.
ton when I was in the third grade.
We stayed with my grandmother.
I stayed at Winter Park school un-
til we moved to our present home.
While I was in the fifth grade I en-
tered Forest Hill school.
I hope to take French as my for
eign language. 1 am planning to go
to Duke university and after col
lege hope to pilot a clipper or air.
liner to some foreign land. AS a
sideline I want to be a member of
the F.B.I. AS a hobby I want to col
lect firearms and weapons of all
kinds.
Jack Lowrimore.
The autobiography of Charles M.
Both my mother and father have
lived in Wilmington all their lives.
Before her marriage to my father,
George Linwood Mitchell, my moth.
er was Annie Elizabeth Worth. My
mother is of Scotch-English descent.
NY father was of Scotch-Irish des-
cent.
l was born March II, 1927, in
Forest Hills. When l was born l
had a sister who was II 1-2 months
older than I and a brother seven
years and two months older. I start
ed to Sunday school at the First
Presbyterian church at the age OF
three. I went to kindergarten for
two years before enterting school.
Part of every summer of my life
has been spent in the mountains
and at the seashore.
I entered the first grade of Forest
Hills when I was six. My first
teacher was Mrs. Ella j. Mitchell.
My first year was a very happy ex'
perience. I have been promoted each
year and am now in the seventh
grade. My ambition is to live up to
the high ideals in what ever work ]
find myself.
The autobiography of Elsie Cor
bett.
My name is Bertha Elsie Corbett,
I was born in Atkinson, N C., June
4, 1927. My mother before her mar
rage was Bertha Pauline Barefoot
Ny father is William Albert Cor
bett. His ancestors were English
and Scotch. Mothers ancestors were
English and French. I have three
brothers and two sisters.
When I was about two years old,
we moved to Wilmington because
my fathers factory burned down,
We lived at Seventh and Market.
Then we moved out of the city limits
t. the entrance of Forest Hills.
When I was in the first grade my
teacher was Mrs. Mitchell. In the
first or second, Daddy took us to the
Chicago Worlds Fair. I was Sc
small I couldn't remember many
sights. I am in the seventh grade
now, my homeroom teachers is Miss
VonGlahn.
1 hope I shall do as we'll in col.
lege as I have in grammar school.
1 hope to be an artist after I grad.
uate.
The autobiography of Johnny Hill.
Ny name is John Bright Hill, Jr.,
My father and mother were of Eng
fish descent. My mother was Kath-
crime Grandson Taylor before she
married. Both were born in this
state. My father was born in War
saw, and my mother was born in
Wilmington. My grandmother, Rosa
Lilly Cumming, vas also born in
Wilmington and married my grand
father, Walker Taylor in 1898.