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Families planning reunions
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Irene Koscis of Florida returned to her home Saturday after spending two weeks here visiting her sister-in-law Barbara Self.
While here she and Barbara visited Amie and Bratten Turner of Lebanon and Robbie Barrett of Nashville and Gertie Bennett of Brush Creek.
Visitors of Barbara Self and Irene were Carl and Frances McBride and Bill and Willie Cleat and Barbara Burton.
Billie Simpson visited E.L. and Brenda Anderson and Corrine Melton Monday.
Barbara Lawson visited Sue Arnold recently.
Hello to Werdna Moss of Dixon; I enjoyed her phone call Sunday evening so much.
Peggy Agee and Miles and Debra Malone visited Lu Autry Malone Wednesday.
Mr. Larry Daw is a patient in NHC Smithville for therapy after a surgery in Nashville.
Congratulations to Ryan Winfrey and Linsey Ervin, were united in marriage Saturday evening in the Gordensville Baptist Church with Bro.. Mike Clayborn performing the ceremony in the presence of a large crowd. They are living in Smithville.
Barbara Vanatta celebrated her birthday May 28. Her son and his wife, Jeff and Jaylene Vanatta took her to the White Possum Grill for supper and helped her celebrate.
Sympathy is extended in the tragic death of Jacob David Billings. Also sympathy is extended to the Tammie Knowles family in her death.
There were 28 in attendance for little Chistian Cripps first birthday party on Saturday. The party was at his home on Dry Creek Road.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Offie Lee Hayes in her death. She used to attend church at New Home Baptist.
During the summer many families will be planning reunions. I have been told that some families use the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree weekend to get family members together that live out of state. 
Anyway, while thinking about family reunions this week, I remembered one of the most wonderful reunions that I ever attended. It was back in 1939 when a bunch of us traveled to near Chattanooga for the Childress family reunion.
None in our family had a vehicle, so Burley Hendrix agreed to take us there for 50 cents a person. I sold Rosebud Salve to get half of my money and washed Uncle Charlie White’s laundry for the rest of my 50 cents.
As best as I remember, there were about 15 of us who made the trip, including Uncle Claude and Aunt Willie White, Falson and Esther Childress Walls along with Uncle Dewey Cantrell.
I can almost see everything right now. Burley had a pickup truck that had a cattle rack on it. He took planks and placed them from one side of the truck bed to the other to make seats for us.
Burley said that he did not know the way, so he allowed one of the other men to drive and he rode in the back of the truck with us. We went through McMinnville and over the mountains to the Sequatchie Valley. The reunion was held on the lawn at a church. I had never seen as much food and people at one gathering.
My grandparents were Berry and Mae Childress Cantrell and that is how I am related to the Childress family. I have always heard that we are kin to Sarah Childress who became the wife of James K. Polk, former Tennessee Governor and later United States President.