Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1959-12-23
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year when Mrs. Clark was asked to tell of the most
gratifying experience of her life.
Saving young girl from wretched street.-The %
was the answer Further questioning brought out
details.
Near the end of the last century one day 1 was
walking through the town on my way to visit the
Baptist preacher when l passed shack with two
little children standing in the front door Even while
was visiting the minister the image of those two little
standing exposed to the cold, stuck in my mind
SO stopped by their meager house my way home. 1"
Upon entering saw woman who looked like
deaths playmate" said Mrs. Clark. The children
were there, boy a, and girl who appeared to be
Poverty of the household obvious Mrs. Clark
asked the woman if there any food in the house
and was shown the total: several potatoes, bit
of corn meal, and few spoons of lard. The woman
was definitely ill, Mrs. Clark quickly sumsed.
81 made up my mind that those people needed
some help and l prepared to leave. Before got t.
the door l asked the mother if the children are
looking for Santa Claus tomorrow it was then APP
preaching Christmas Eve. The mothers reply wa
negative.
Santa Claus will be here to you tomorrow
Mrs. Clark promised the children as she departed
On the following day she spent much time visiting
with local merchants telling them of the family's
delimia, and soliciting groceries, toys, clothing and
candy.
Early Christmas morning Mrs. Clark made her
way toward the tumble-6own shack; she arrived
she saw the frail children standing in the doorway.
according to the mother they had been waiting there
since daybreak.) doll placed in the little girl
cried with joy.
You never saw such happy mother remember
Mrs. Clark.
1t learned that day that the woman haG
been given to old man when she only a CIR
of ID. Later she away from him and until dis
covered by Mrs. Clark, had been roaming the countr
with the two children. She had settled in the SINAI
shack because she too i'll to go
would you like to work." asked Mrs Clark when
the woman had finished telling her story.
Yes
Would you take in washing?"
''Glady!"
According to Mrs. Clark the woman did such chores
for almost year when it learned that she was
the victim of cancer Confined to her bed Christ
again, the woman asked Mrs. Clark favor: Don't
give my children to my brother when die" He had
previously abused both.
Oxford Orphanage became the home of the waits
Years passed. The girl graduated. Having borrowed
money she went to college in the western part of
the state When her school completed she went
20 Philadelphia where she took a very important and
responsible position. Later she married a doctor.
1t was this girl - the stranger - who knocked
on Mrs. Clarks door, and expressed her gratitude
by saying eff it had not been for you would have
been woman of the streets"
And the boy?
He too borrowed funds to attend State College
from which he graduated. Today he is the manager
of the Bernard Baruch Georgetown estate.
Those two children have been my greatest JOY
processes Chadbourn's First Lady. And it all started
Christmas Eve.