A20 • Thursday, March 22, 2012 • THE LEADER Fun night Mt. Carmel fajitas. and I got to meet
Elaine Watkins I cleaned out a flower bed last week that was, and still is, full of poison ivy. Naturally, in spite of all my washing and scrubbing, I still had some breakouts. Good ol’ Calamine still seems to be the best for it. Just hate poison ivy and get it every year! I got two cakes made for little Lexi Matlock’s second birthday last weekend. She got a Mickey and a Minnie cake, one chocolate, the other rainbow. Fun to make and good practice for Lyla’s second birthday next month! Can’t believe these girls are already two! Speaking of birthdays, I attended Ryleigh Sallee’s first birthday party on Saturday and got to see Kristen and Matt’s new house. Love it! We had double-decker cheeseburgers, pasta salad and cake with strawberry curd between the layers and strawberry icing. Nice party and nice day; appreciate the invite! Monday night I was back at the Sallees’ for a Pampered Chef Party, where we had homemade salsa and chicken
Kristen’s mother and sister from Virginia. I know she’s happy they are here, and I hope they have a safe trip back home. I know it’s hard for all of you who remember grandson Cameron Dickey being born prematurely at three pounds, two ounces, to hear that he’s engaged to be married! He popped the question to Rachel Nance, daughter of David and LaDonna Coulston Nance, and the wedding is Aug. 4. Congratulations and I am so glad they found each other! Happy Birthday again to Catherine McCalla, today. We are taking her for Japanese tomorrow. John Evans is taking some rehab for his shoulder he had surgery on recently. I hear it’s very painful but hope he does all right. Geneva Travis, Trey Erwin, Benton Wooten, Jimbo Edmonds, Craig Randolph, J. T. Odom, Carol Farrell and so many others continue in our prayers, as well as our servicemen and women, and America’s voters. The Covington Church of Christ Building Committee has hired an ar-
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chitectural firm and plans are moving on for our two services till we get a new auditorium building built. We’ve had ten place membership this month! God is good. The Birthday Party at Covington Care will be on the 24th at 2:30 p.m. There will be a marriage seminar at our church on April 15, 9:30 a.m. Everyone is invited. The KIX and ACT groups of children will have a lockin this weekend to kick-off spring. The ACT’s group will have a golf day on the 28th, KIX Antler Search on the 29th and the Easter egg hunt will be on the 31st. Everyone is working on Lads to Leaders and it will be Easter weekend. Happy Birthday this week goes to Lexi Matlock on March 18th, to Chip Gordon on the 20th and to Faye Shankle on the 22nd! Happy Anniversary to Ron and Gale Sutton and Andrew and Whitney Conner on March 21st, and to Shorty and Judy Dunaway on the 22nd! We were shocked and so sorry to hear early yesterday morning that our dear friend and church member Lee Graham had passed
away during the night. He had hernia surgery last week and came home on Sunday, and he and Paulette were lying in bed talking when he took a turn for the worse and stopped breathing. Paramedics tried to bring him back but to no avail. Paulette and the family are certainly in my prayers. Paulette had orders that if Lee went first, she was to take Lee’s dog, Jake, who was old and had arthritis, to be put down. I know it was painfully hard, but Paulette did that yesterday morning. She said Jake would grieve himself to death over Lee. Lee and Jake’s ashes will be together forever. This week’s Farmer’s Almanac Quote: “A windy March and a rainy April make a beautiful May�. It is supposed to be windy today, with rain moving in tomorrow. But some things are blooming now, instead of May, like iris! “Thanks for Reading� this week goes to Paulette Watkins, Fay Hazlerig, Ginger Sallee, Debbie Otts and Mike and Bonita Rogers! Big Sa-lute! Until next week . . .
The Civil War and Tipton County Compiled by RUSSELL BAILEY, Tipton County Historian March 1862 The 9th Tennessee Infantry left Humboldt by train on March 15, and arrived at Bethel Station that night. J. S. Spence recorded that they remained there “very pleasantlyâ€? until the 20th when they took the rail cars to Corinth, Miss. Former Tipton Co. State Representative Thomas J. Watkins of Ravenscroft, wrote of the 4th Tennessee Infantry’s trip to Corinth: “We came down the Mississippi to Fort Pillow when we disembarked‌ I remember going and looking over the old magazines, forts and breastworks which we had worked so hard to make the summer preceding to construct‌ We arrived at Memphis early in the afternoon (March 20th) when we marched through the town with our banners so gay, marching out Madison Street to the old Memphis and Charleston depot. As we passed Mrs. Polk’s finishing School, my sister Jocie, who was a student, saw me and left the front porch and came into the street to shake hands‌ so we walked on together until we were nearing the depot‌
Center on the Dyersburg campus of Dyersburg State Community College. Those inducted are: Dyer County: Ellyn Smith, Zack Little, Kim Ashley, Felisha Cordasco, Harry Rutledge, Brooke Hall, Melissa McLaughlin, Leah King, Jeannie Pierce;
Fayette County: Jeanna Paden; Gibson County: Bianca Scates; Lauderdale County: RaDona Smith, Angela Laws, Katie Farley, Reeham Steel, Tasia Steel, Shana Johnson, Bradley Johnson Obion County: Kim Gurien, David Wharton, Devin Ellison; Tipton County: Tevin
Dyson, Jessie Ocampo, Brandy Campbell A reception followed the induction ceremony. PTK is the international honor society of two-year colleges. To be eligible for membership, a student must complete a minimum of twelve hours of associate
degree course work and generally earn a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Students must maintain a high academic standing throughout their enrollment in the twoyear college. Today Phi Theta Kappa is the largest honor society in Amer-
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Pillow to supply a garrison of 5,000 men for a period of up to three months. From March 14-17, Major Lawrence W. O’Bannon of the 2d Alabama Infantry was in command at Fort Pillow. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart assumed command of the fort on the 19th. He estimated the line of entrenchments in rear of the river batteries were three and a half miles in length requiring a garrison of 15-20,000 men. He wrote that a new rear defense for 3,000 men was needed. On the 24th, the following troops were at Pillow: 12th Louisiana Infantry, Colonel Thomas M. Scott; 21st Louisiana, Colonel J. B. G. Kennedy; 31st Tennessee Infantry, Colonel A. H. Bradford; Pointe Coupee, Louisiana Light Artillery, Capt. R. A. Stewart, guns two 12 pounder bronze howitzers; three six pounder guns, bronzed; one rifled Parrot gun‌ 88 horses. Captain Henry Maley’s Company from Tipton County worked with the Confederate engineers on the river batteries. Major Jeremy F. Gilmer, Gen. A. S. Johnston’s chief engineer officer was there by the 25th. With the help of 600 African American laborers, they began work on a shorter line of fortifications.
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PTK takes 24 new members Proud family members and friends gathered on the evening of Friday, March 2, to see the induction ceremony for the 24 new members of the Alpha Epsilon Alpha chapter of the academic honorary society Phi Theta Kappa (PTK). The ceremony was held in the Student
We were pulled out for Corinth, Miss., loaded on flat cars similar to those used for hauling gravel, dirt, timber, etc., and at the present time were seated on rough plank benches nailed to the car with barely enough room to bend our knees and with no backs, and so had a tiresome night ride.â€? In a letter dated March 20, 1862 from Humboldt, Major Charles H. Hill commanding Logwood’s 6th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, wrote Major General Leonidas Polk: “My brother, Dr. L. Hill (of Covington) has a company of 52 men made up “for the war.â€? He wishes to have them received so as to have them equipped by the time that he can get his company full, which will be in a few days. His company is composed of the best materials of the South and will do good service. He will have a full company in a short time‌â€? The 6th Tennessee Battalion and other West Tennessee cavalry companies assembled at Union City to form a regiment of cavalry. Former artillery Captain William H. Jackson was appointed Colonel and Charles Hill was retained as Major. During March, Gen. G. T. Beauregard ordered provisions sent to Fort
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