Credit: In Jamaica
On the road to Point Hill
IN THE BEGINNING
One sunny blessed day in the hills of St Catherine, Jamaica a heavily pregnant woman sat alone on her verandah contemplating the arrival of her fifth child. In the absence of DNA testing she wondered whether it would be her fourth girl or her second boy. An elderly wise woman, spiritualist, preacher from the surrounding district, Ms. Crisella approached her and uninvited said, “ You are going to have a boy and you must call him Joshua or Caleb. Furthermore you must not come out with him for 21 days.� She left. In those days, unlike now young mothers did not present themselves to the community for 9 days after the birth of a child. But Caleb stayed in the dark with his mother for the full 21 days emerging with the reputation of being very, very special.
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Figure 1 Raymond Cooper finally tied the knot and married the love of his life, Emeriah Matilda Armstrong they already had five children, on Tuesday 29th January 1935.
