Faye Adkins, Larry Daw, Ethan Dies, and William Dowlin spent Saturday at Cedars of Lebanon State Park where they enjoyed a picnic.
Lewis and Phyllis George spent several days at the trails on their farm here. They are from Nashville.
Lewis, Phyllis and Phil and Susan and Lewis Gilbert George attended the Braswell Reunion Saturday near Baxter.
Adam McAtee visited Mabel and Robin Pack.
Visiting Sue Arnold were Corrine Melton, Adam Lawson, and Barbara Lawson.
Wayne and Jone Ferrell visited his mother, Louise Jones, recently.
Visitors of Barbara Self were Barbara Burton and Nina Lawrence.
Cloie Braswell visited her grandmother, Billie Simpson a few days.
Billie Simpson along with several senoir citizens  from The New Life Pentecostal Church ,went to the Cat Fish Place Restaurant in Smyrna, for lunch on Saturday. This group gets together once a month for an outing. Michelle Walker drives the van for them. They all enjoy this good fellowship.
Jayce Wright of Murfreesboro spent Thursday night and Friday night with her mother Lu Autry Malone. Peggy Agee visited Lu Autry Malone. Peggy Agee visited Lu Autry on Sunday afternoon.
Jeff and Jaylene Vanatta and Lu Autry Malone ate lunch at the Mexican Restaurant Sunday after church.
Congratulations to Izena Griffith. Her name was drawn on WJLE Birthday Club Monday for roses from DeKalb Florist.
Johnnie Ruth Hunt spent Sunday night with Sue Cook and they attended Middle Tenn. Baptist Church in Murfreesboro. They had preaching services and Squire Parson sang.
It seems that many families have reunions this time of the year.  One of the most wonderful family reunions that I ever attended was back in 1939, when a bunch of us traveled to the Sequatchie Valley near Chattanooga for the Childress family gathering.
None of our family had a vehicle, so Burley Hendrix agreed to take us there for 50 cents per person.  I sold Rosebud Salve to get half of my money and washed Uncle Charlie White’s laundry for the rest of my fare.  As best as I can remember, there were about 15 of us who made the trip, including Uncle Claude and Aunt Willie White,  Falson and Esther Childress Walls and their children, along with Uncle Dewey Cantrell and his family.
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 some seats for all of us.  Three people rode in the cab of the truck. 
Burley said he didn’t know the way, so he allowed one of the other men to drive and he rode in the back with the rest of us.  We went through McMinnville and over the mountains to Sequatchie Valley. The reunion was held on the lawn at a church where we spread our food for an old fashion dinner on the ground.  I had never seen as much food and as many people at one gathering.  My daddy had died three years earlier.  So, it was a real treat for me to see, for the first time, folks on my grandmother Cantrell’s side of our family.
My grandparents were Berry and Mae Childress Cantrell, and that is how I am related to the Childress family. 
I’ve always heard that we are kin to Sarah Childress, who became the wife of former Tennessee Governor and later President of the United States, James K. Polk.