We Are The Eagles: May 9th Edition

Britt, here's the column for this week. Please send back that you received it. Thanks. James

Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Prayer list for this week includes: Joyce Briant, Max and Lorene Dyer, Sue McClellan, David McClellan, Frank and Agnes McClellan, Lizzie Mae Martin, Gerald Totty, Libby Metcalf, and the family of Audrey Roebuck.

Birthdays this week include: Daniel Bryant (May 9), A. J. Moring (May 9), Kayla Herring (May 10), Kim Emerson (May 10), Michael Rawls (May 11), Devlyn Moring (May 11), Bobby Thompson (May 11), Patsy Spears (May 12), Mark Wagnon (May 13), and Marie Lash (May 14). Thanks to all who expressed birthday wishes to me last Saturday.

I hope all mothers everywhere had a great Mother's Day last Sunday. Mrs. Ollie Moring said almost her entire family of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were at her home that day. Mrs. Jean Parrott reported a good visitation from her family as well.

There will be a baby boy shower for Toby and Carrie Johnson at Macedonia church at 6pm on May 14. Macedonia will have its communion service Sunday night on May 15.

If you wish to donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, please bring any material items such as clothes, toys, canned food, etc to Kristen Skelton at McClellan's Country Store. Monetary donations must be mailed to: SE AR American Red Cross, 211 W. 3^rd Ste. 250, Pine Bluff, AR 71601. Their office phone number is (870) 534-7312. Any and all help is sorely needed.

I supposed many have heard the tale of the two mysterious tombstones in the woods off of Banks Road. I roamed those woods as a kid and never saw them so they were placed there sometime after the late 1970s/early 1980s. Mr. Lee Jones discovered them about seven years or so back on the land of Marvin King. Mr. King took down the names carved thereon and gave them to me. One stone held the mark of Proctor Funeral Home in Camden, so I called that place and was informed that one man was buried near Camden and the other was buried in south Bradley County. There was no legitimate reason for either stone to be in the middle of the woods here.

Recently, Mr. Lee Jones showed me the tombstones. Through the thickest of thickets we waded until we found them almost covered by leaves and other debris. I took some pictures for my own curiosity. Both markers looked like temporary jobs which were likely replaced by more permanent markers later. In all likelihood, these two markers were found in a trash heap and placed where they are now as a Halloween prank or perhaps spook time for some kids. Who knows? Well, obviously someone knows and I have a theory, but there's no point in discussing it three decades later. It's yet another example of the strange and funny little things that go on in this town when you never see.

I appreciate any and all who contact me with information for this column. If you have stuff you'd like to see here in print, please get it to me before Monday 5pm for inclusion in that week's column. My phone number is 870-308-4608, my email is JamesCBoney@gmail.com, or get it to me in person or on FaceBook. Go Eagles.