Doshia Greene Bowling
Sunman, Bigmama, & Johnnie Lee 1979
Life in the Bible Belt
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 03:40PM
...savior, savior can you hear my humble cry?
While on others thou art calling, do not pass me by...
Name: Walker Jones
Timeline: 1913_1986
Religious Affiliation: White Oak Baptist
Parents: Douglas & Josephine Jones
Spouse: Ivory Lee
The Deacon Jones that I knew carried a Bible in one hand and a big ole hankerchief in the other.
I never knew whether hiz was an act of devotion or contrition:
As a child I can recall sitting in the pews at White Oak watching him pray until sweat poured down his brow, and the armpits of his shirt were noticeably damp.
Ocassionally when he paused, the Elders would say "well", as if they understood.
When I returned in 79' hiz prayers were a bit shorter, but just as fervent. As I shook his hand, after service, he smiled as if he knew that I knew who he was.
[JL Harris]
In the antebellum south White Oak was home to a prominent family known, collectively to our people, as the Kirklands:
Richard Rowland Kirkland, killed in action (September 23, 1863) during the Civil War, was initially buried in the cemetery at White Oak. He was a son of John and Mary Kirkland.
According to Mrs Harold Hough, "... in 1909 the local John D. Kennedy Chapter, UDC, was granted permission for transferring Richard's remains from the White Oak Cemetery of his family to Little Arlington the UDC plot in Quaker Cemetery at Camden..."
[ Mrs Hough was/is a historian for the John D. Kennedy Chapter of the UDC; the Kershaw County Historical Society; and a member of the Catawba Wateree Genealogical Society. Author of "A Rebel Against Injustice ", which chronicled the heritage of Richard Rowland Kirkland; including tying his ancestors to the Rugulator Movement.]
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