General Notes

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Mr. and Mrs. W. P. McEwen asked Priscilla Kimbrough, the only daughter of
Ike & Nancy (Samuels) Willingham, to name their last child. She selected
the name "Tera" from the Bible. Priscilla was a Sunday School teacher at
Andrews Chapel for more than fifty years.(1)
This information was from a pamphlet, "The Story of Flint Hill of Times
Past and Present".  Written by John D. Samuels. page 34.
Month of Celebrating of Coosa County Couple
Mr. and Mrs. Terah Anderson McEwen will celebrate their sixty-fifth
wedding anniversary on August 8th.  Mr. McEwen will celebrate his
ninetieth birthday August 4th and August 6th there will be a McEwen
family reunion at Sears Chapel on the Rockford Highway following the
Sears Chapel annual reunion.  This will not only be a reunion but a day
everyone wishing their best to Mr. McEwen on turning ninety this year.
The McEwen’s family reunions were held at their home for years until the
family outgrew the home.
I had a wonderful visit with Mr. and Mrs. McEwen this past week.  It
was truly a pleasure.  They were so open, young at heart and neither on
lacked a good sense of humor.  We talked about all the upcoming events
this month.
We talked about their anniversary and I asked them how they met.  Mr.
McEwen said he had a cute little story on that.  He was working at
Wallsboro and she was teaching close by a Titus.  Mrs. McEwen taught
school for thirty-five years in the surrounding area.  They were having a
lot of square dancing around Wallsboro back then and he was invited to
go.  He said he thought she was a right cute little red headed gal when
she walked in there and so she kind of latched on to him and he kind of
gave in.  Now, Mrs. McEwen said from then on every time she opened her
door he was right there and it was him that did the latching.  We all got
to laughing on who was the latcher and who was the latchee.  The main
thing is eventually the both agreed to latching permanently.  He was
leaving for Missouri on a construction job on a Saturday so he stopped in
Rockford that Friday on the way home from work for a marriage license and
then went on to her home and from there they went to Weogufka where a
preacher married them.  They stopped in Sylacauga and spent their
honeymoon night at the Knight Hotel.  He worked in Missouri about a year
and they came back to settle down at the McEwen home place.  Mrs. McEwen
was formerly Faye Beth Harmon also born here in Coosa County.  They
belong to Andrews Chapel in Hanover.  Although they have no children,
they have many nieces and nephews.
They showed me around their home.  It was lovely filled with
treasures and memories from long ago.  Mr. and Mrs. McEwen had many
prized possessions.  She had among them a pair of beautiful framed
pictures her Grandmother had given her.  There was a large picture of his
family which must have been almost a hundred hears old because he wasn't
even born then.  There was also a glass encased pocket watch passed from
his grandfather to his father and on to him.  Mrs. McEwen was kind enough
to bring out an old hair chair used by Mr. McEwen and still in good
condition which had been handed all the way down from his grandfather.
They don’t make furniture like that anymore.  Mrs. McEwen had several
beautiful handstitched pictures she had made.  He showed me his 1994
plaque from the Cattleman’s Association.  She had lovely vases of all
shapes and sizes.  Their home was filled with history including a large
photograph of Mr. McEwen’s great grandfather Adams on his mother’s side,
dressed in his full uniform from the civil war days.  Unfortunately he
never returned from that was just like so many others.
You would never know from talking with Mr. McEwen he was about to be
ninety.  He remembered well his life growing up as a young a