Local Lore & Legend - more about the Kents February 1, 2012 Our Amos Kent 7th was not born here, but in 1811 in New Hampshire. He came to Louisiana in 1828 when he was 17. He married in 1839 Susan Fluker (1823-1906) of St. Helena and they ...
Butterfly Wings week of Feb 1, 2012 “Birthday, Hap-day” to my Aunt Ruth Martin of Columbia, Mississippi, MArk GIll of Ponchatoula, and Angel Mears of Highway 10, near Clinton, all three share January 27; my great-nephew, Jordan Smith...
Local Lore and Legend week of Jan 25, 2012 Recent visitors included Helen Tycer who came years ago from Amite to live with her aunt Katie Tycer Morris for a while as a teenager. A sister, Sara Ellen, married J.W. Nawl, Jr., before her deat...
Butterfly Wings week of January 25 2012 Wishing you the loveliest “Happy Birthday!” you can possibly imagine, to Mike Irwin, formerly of Amite, now of the state of Washington, Connie Cutrer Smith of Amite, and Bettie Allen Bardwell of Gr...
Local Lore & Legend: Oldest Lore column winner... Several months ago, I asked “WHO had kept a copy of the oldest of some Lore I had written…” I believe the winner is the younger of the two daughters of Mattie Lea and “Baby” Waller. I was like e...
Butterfly Wings week of Jan 18 2012 Wishing these special shining stars a “Happy Birthday!”, that’s surrounded by beauty and filled with love, Gail Travis of Kentwood, January 17; Lisa Cutrer of Amite and Mrs. Mildred Vernon of Montp...
Why not make this your greatest year? While we’re still in the January resolution mode, why not resolve to make this your greatest year? It can be! But for this to be true, you may have to change your definition of greatness. A man wh...
Local Lore & Legend: Remembering "Aunt Betty" Reid I am the “big sister” in a family of eight children. My mother and dad are buried in their plot in Kentwood Woodland Cemetery. Joe, the oldest of four brothers, died in 1990 and is also buried her...
jerry dot com: Remembering Marie Kent Hood This is to the honor of my memories of Marie Kent Hood. Marie passed away on Friday, December 30, 2011 at her home. Her husband, Thomas James Hood, preceded her on death. Her parents, Thomas Kent ...
Butterfly Wings week of Jan 11, 2012 May your heart be filled with a song and your soul with a dream to “Happy Birthday!” stars William David Brecheen of Greensburg, January 12; Jennifer Curry Baggett of Greensburg, January 15; and, G...
Why be thankful? “We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power.” Who made these three positive pronouncem...
Local Lore: Kentwood IS on the map! The Historic New Orleans Collection (in the French Quarter) mailed me a 1916 map of railroads in the state of Louisiana. I am on the list of lifetime members of the Louisiana Historical Association...
