Retrieved June 11, 2021, from https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1941016_afs05496a/. She always was taking care of someone else. Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter. Graduation wasMonday. Went back to the house crying. Thats just where they stayed. And they had, and them babies tied on they back. Ah, I , you know I never [sang (?)] But you sure use ??? Her name, Aunt Tishe. )], What you doing in this house here hurting old mistress? Say, she wasnt hurting old mistress. Mrs. Laura Smalley: You know to make her tend to the children, she wasnt doing nothing. Ross, ah, [Beauna (?)]. Which the uh, ?? To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Laura Smalley, please visit our flower store . And then after hed nurse, you know, then, youd carry it back tend to it. Obituary Laura A. Smalley, age 98 of Grafton passed away Saturday December 24, 2022 in the Keystone Pointe Nursing & Rehab Center following a short @~ (* {d+}G}WL$cGD2QZ4 E@@ A(q`1D `'u46ptc48.`R0) Interview with Laura Smalley, Hempstead, Texas, 1941 (part 1 of 5). {{{;}#tp8_\. Share Your Memories Thats Indians. he wont eat. And drink, you know. John Henry Faulk: Can you sing the rest of that, thats a good. Laura Morris-Smalley was welcomed into our Heavenly Fathers Kingdom on November 14, 2020. She is survived by her spouse, Philip D. And if the old woman didnt tend to the children, theyd whup, theyd whup her too. Then, I got one of his daughters. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Mrs. Adeline, our mistress, you know. Cooking meals and delivering them, remembering your birthday, making sure every kid she knew had that special Christmas gift they were dreaming of. (n.d.). Mrs. Laura Smalley: That was the biggest doing. Mrs. Laura Smalley: No, sir. Some of you know Laura because of her, Kirks, and Dawns unselfish, tireless work with Stand For The Silent, a non-profit foundation started with their help after the loss of their beloved Ty. Laura Morris-Smalley was welcomed into our Heavenly Fathers Kingdom on November 14, 2020. Funeral Services will be held on Sunday, May 29, 4:00 in Post Meridien at Emmanuel Cathedral Church of God in Christ, 11471 Pruett Road, Seffner, FL 33584, with Pastor Jesse Smalley, II, Officiating. She was at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for medical treatment after discovering a brain aneurysm. We didnt know where to go. Well, I got a great grand, got a great grand-s-s-son, great grandson, he got four. Do you remember anything like that? Its way up here. There will be a visitation period from 1:00 - 4:00 pm, with readings and eulogies from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm. All rights reserved. She was a very humble and quiet spirited soul who will be deeply missed. If they offer they hand, you know, for it, and made the motion, you just as well go give it to them, or let them, because they go on in and they get that stuff. John Henry Faulk: Tell old pharaoh let my people go?. Retrieved June 11, 2021, from https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1941016_afs05496a/, Honoring the Life of Venerable Master Hsing Yun, Integrating Spirituality In Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Workshop. ??? Newspaper name: The Huntsville Times. Them arbors, you know, but they never did ah, never know. Ten oclock in the day. We will remember him forever. You have funeral questions, we have answers. Id like to hear it. But they didnt sing songs like they sung now, you know. Dennis John . And I dont know what that man said to her, said to her, ah you know. Mrs. Laura Smalley: I dont know. Now, heres one of my great grandchildren. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Then, and another woman cut ah, killed her, stabbed another woman about her husband. That was here in Hempstead. Her papa was a overseer but he had to whup her. Because ah, our old master would whup us and then, Uncle Saul, Uncle Saul would whup us. Now, and they say that was on the nineteenthand everything you want to eat and drink. Florence Lois Weber was born on June 13, 1879, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, the second of three children of Mary Matilda Snaman and George Weber, an upholster and decorator who had spent several years in missionary street work. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Yes, they took that child off and mama didnt have but that one. Mrs. Laura Smalley: These most that I sing, these here songs would sing, you know, after, after, you know, Id be good big girl, you know. She is survived by her son Charles ( Robin ) Smalley of Grafton and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Michael Allen Smalley. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Ten years. And I thought old master was dead, but he wasnt. You never take nothing but something to eatlike that. And she . Women killing other women about they husbands, and all like that. Something or other like nine months, or something like that, you know. Mrs. Laura Smalley: No, sir. Theyd whup him too, the old woman. Laura Smalley Laura Smalley (1929 - 1972) Jump to: Bio graphy Family Photos Comments Obit uary. I aint got long to staaay. In the 21st century, it's not just urns and gravestones anymore. Tend to the children. She leaves sons Steven, Gregory, and Christopher Bea, and daughters Laura (Bea) Capellaro and Heather (Martinson) King. None of them never was sold. [laugh] I say. Didnt have, didnt have no stove. Mrs. Laura Smalley: And when, when I was a child, I dont know where them was an Indian or not then. Id say thats a good one to hear. Laura A. Smalley, age 98 of Grafton passed away Saturday December 24, 2022 in the Keystone Pointe Nursing & Rehab Center following a short illness. Expand the Memories and Condolences form. He was my doctor from the earliest memories that I have until my early teens (late 60's-mid They loved hunting, fishing, baseball, gardening and travelling together. And gave, give her the, they give them the beads, you know. Mrs. Laura Smalley: With spoons, you know, and eat, treat you like mush or soup or something like that. Updated: November 2, 2011 . Webshould i tell my married coworker i like him? They just thought, you know, were just feeding us, you know. And she. And I remember all the next morning, we all got up and all of them went to the house. Food has always been a go-to for people in mourning. Legacy invites you to offer condolences WebAt McReynolds-Nave & Larson Funeral Home, we're proud to offer compassionate funeral & cremation services to families in Clarksville & the surrounding areas. Was pitching The visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 in Post Meridien on Friday, May 27, 2022, at Emmanuel Cathedral Church of God in Christ, 11471 Pruett Road, Seffner, FL 33584. Memorial gifts may be made in her name to Stand for the Silent at www.standforthesilent.org or mailed to: Stand for the Silent: 6918 W 128th St, Perkins, OK 74059-4281. John Henry Faulk: When all the, all the colored folks and white folks got in, got in a fight? Thats right. Single, four years. Why I got, I got great grandchildrens fifty-years old. 4 0 obj He wouldnt whup him. And I knowed that. And, you know, just tied her hands this way, you know, around the peach orchard tree. Mrs. Laura Smalley: And said that finally at last they ate the bread up and lift they hand back, you know, the, took the, took the beads away from her. And I dont know, you know, the because of churches, you know, when you started. She never wanted a fuss on her behalf. Condolences may be sent to the family and an online obituary may be viewed by visiting www.strodefh.com. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Born right there and stayed there until I was about nine, ten years old, maybe more. Follow these easy Ah, what, what were the preachers like in those days? And that old woman, you know, she would tend to them. Lord, I Got Union In My Soul,I Aint Got Long To Stay. A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Eastside Memorial Park in Minden for Dennis John Gabelman, 64, who died Dec. 17, 2006, in Reno. And I was sure enough scared. She is survived by her husband, Kirk Smalley; daughter Jerri Dawn and husband Cody Behne; mother Carolyn Jo Avery Morris; two brothers, Billy Jo Morris and Dustin Wayne Morris; and many nieces, nephews, and friends around the world. But now you know, they preach us by scripts. . Yes, sir. Her funeral service will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at the Friends Chapel Church: 12212 S. Redlands Road, Coyle, Oklahoma, 73027 with interment following at Oak Grove Cemetery in Coyle, OK. 73027. His name, Uncle Mark. And ah, Sunny Man and Bey. Turned us out just like, you know, you turn out cattle. Laura L. Smalley. Hit him, you know. to Bethany niggas, you see. I aint got long to stay in the world. John Henry Faulk: They whupped some of them [rawhide on (?)] Mrs. Laura Smalley: Yes, sir. Made, he wouldnt let them whup him, you see. These thunderballs is rattling. We didnt know where to go. Went to the house to see old master. You know, just like a big, fine, looking woman, big, fine, looking man, you know. Havent lied on nobody, no evil have I done. Laura Smalley, who worked at Tys school, drove him home and told him to do his chores and they would talk about it when she got home. They always brought it to their kitchen, when I was a child. They were the quintessential couple. I used to hear them talk about, you know, you putting them on stumps, you know. You know, they dont preach by that. Yes, didnt have her plum naked. They just fasten them up in a house or somewhere. . prayed in him and asking the Lord have mercy on my master. [laugh]. Mrs. Laura Smalley: And you know, they'd have a certain time, you know, cow come to his calf and at, at, at night.Well, they come at ten o'clock. /Author (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) Good Lord, theres a love everybody, no evil have I done Her children always came first. It was But they got it. Theyd sell him, you know. MASK RECOMMENDED. [Audio]. Mrs. Laura Smalley: she went back to the house crying. In honoring her wishes, there will be no visitation or services. She was born September 12, 1924 in Gassaway, West Virginia and had been a Grafton resident the majority of her life. ??? I, I know, know ah, one, one [ah (? She was blessed with a daughter, Jerri Dawn, and Strode Funeral Home and Cremation is in charge of arrangements. And just catched her by her wrist this way, you know. But then, you know, they just preach, preach by the spirit, [rooster crows] you know. We are sad to announce that on October 24, 2022, at the age of 82, Sylvia Leora Smalley (Springfield, Missouri) passed away. And I aint got long to staaay, Lord. Well, they come at ten oclock. Didnt know where to go. A-a-aint even much more than about five miles down in the Bottom. The master make him whip you, what overseer, when you see him. WebLarry D. Smalley. Enter Thats just where they stayed. She was at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, And their old master told him, run in the ??? Do you remember how, whether they whipped them or, Mrs. Laura Smalley: The, the biggest whupping that ever I knowed they get named, master Albert. Go on out. Mrs. Laura Smalley: [What Im tell was (?)] Do you remember that one? She is survived by her son Charles ( Robin ) Smalley of Grafton and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs. Laura Smalley: And ah, after she killed this woman about her husband, then ah, he went on and married her [him]. Mrs. Laura Smalley: And they had certain times to come to them childrens. We had no, no, no keep us coming, you know, to mistreat us, that a way. John Henry Faulk: Well, did the slaves ever try a slip away, they ever try to run off? Thats what he taught us then. Something to eat. << Mrs. Laura Smalley: I dont know all the ??? How come ah, ah. Turned us out just like, you know, you turn out cattle. WebMother Laura Mae Blakely Smalley passed away on Monday, May 23, 2022. Four. Thats right. [dog bark] Great big old chicken. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Yes, sir. I have got my mother going on the ship of Zion. Stayed right there. And ah, and she ??? Mrs. Laura Smalley: Because a little child, you can whip a little child here now, hed get mad, you know, and dont want to eat nothing. Shhh. John Henry Faulk: Well, they had preachers under the arbors, didnt they? She was preceded in death by: her husband, PastorJinks A. Smalley, and son, Superintendent Jesse H. Smalley, Sr. She leaves to cherish her memories: her children: Cecelia Otis (William), Sharon Gordon (Wade), James Smalley (Sharon), Craig Smalley (Gwen), Tammy Smalley, Evelyn Johnson (C. Charles), Laura Pugh (Jerry), and Deshawn Wilkins (Kiyandrah). Mrs. Laura Smalley: Well, I, I well I dont know about the church when it first started up, no more than the, you know, ah, when I was a child, you know, they used to didnt have no church, you know, in no house, you know, they always had it in the trees. Do you remember any slave sellers, you know, men that would just buy and sell slaves? Born Margaret Mary Mowers in 1931 in Duluth, MN, to Fred and Nina (Jensen) Mowers, "Peggy" finished a long life journey in Des Moines, Mrs. Laura Smalley: No, sir. Now if the boy packing water, you know, you pack water, you know? To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Laura Smalley please visit our. No he didnt tell. I was great big girl when I knowed the Mrs. Bethany and them had a, had a kitchen in the dinning room mixed together. Unidentified Woman Interviewer: You were born right there and never did leave? John Henry Faulk: Has church services changed much from the way they used to be? After she done killed his wife. She is survived by her son Charles ( Robin ) Smalley of Grafton and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs. Laura Smalley: [continues singing:Thunderbolts Rattling]. Night come and they give him ear of corn, and ah, thas the way they fed him, you know. No. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Big old black man, he tried to hold office, you know, over there. Just flinch, you know, flinch. Obituary For Margaret Smalley. Published by Courier-Journal on Dec. 31, 2017. I think it twenty-five. Mrs. Laura Smalley: And you know, theyd have a certain time, you know, cow come to his calf and at, at, at night. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Its like, you know, when youd hire somebodys nurse, but it be a grown woman nurse. Until he look like he was moving along too slow, too fast with that, you know. Unidentified Woman Interviewer: You never did, eh? Look like a long, long, time. Sanctified and holy, no evil have I done. Click the arrows in the bottom right corner to Download the Full Flyer in PDF(contains active Photo: Simon JosephThis Summer Dr. Or pick up children. John Henry Faulk: Well, did you ever hear one called, ah,Couldnt Hear Nobody Pray? Stepdaddy. John Henry Faulk: Well, how would they, how would they punish him then? What amazing things she helped accomplish as she and Kirk traveled the world sharing Tys story. When, when, when ah, I was ah, young, you know, and hit me. Unless you are experienced as an estate executor, you probably should hire an attorney. Mama had an old chicken once. John Henry Faulk: You can, can you remember any that the slaves sung? Mrs. Laura Smalley: I married before I was sixteen-years old. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Teach them what to say and how to say, you know. And he had, he, he would belongs to a Pane, then he belongs to a, some people, you know, in [Brenwood (?)]. Unidentified Woman Interviewer: How long? in slavery, but I heard them sing some after freedom, I know them, some. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Well, I, I cant remember much about it, but I remember this much: When uh, Mr. Bethany, was gone a long time. And if the old woman didnt tend to the children, theyd whup, theyd whup her too. Said once that a man stayed in the woods so long, until his hair long on them like a dog. Had pots. what I heard her say, I didnt know that. You know, we cut it and it stayed. electronic gold scrap buyers; is one foot island beach in the southern hemisphere It didnt matter if they were relatives, neighbors, friends or complete strangers. He was born March 17, 1953 in Port Lavaca to Laura Ann I aint got long to staaay. I think about this like a cow out there will go to the calf, you know. She was born September 12, 1924 in Gassaway, West Virginia and had  been a Grafton resident the majority of her life.  She was a graduate of Normantown High School and enjoyed reading and spending time with her family. A private interment will follow with the family. Take it and, all folk are there they go and take it. Just a house full of them children. John Henry Faulk: Seem like I remember it. She was blessed with a daughter Jerri Dawn and later a son Ty. And they did ah, women, some of them around here they kick them and knock them about, sometime. She also has nieces and nephews in Illinois, Colorado, and Florida. They dont beat them up so, so bad now like they used to. He was a Pane. Couldnt, you know, just enough, you know, shake him this way in the arms. They whupped some of them. I didnt hear of it. Her husband and daughter ministered care and comfort until she passed. Here he come in with a bucket. How did they go about marrying the slaves? And the master wouldnt let them hurt him, because he let the, the ah, you know, the ah, overseer, you know, they whup you. You can still show your support by sending flowers directly to the family, or plant a tree in memory of Laura A. Smalley. Aint never seen none, until ah, u-until I dont know where them was Indians what, had all them feathers in the hat. She drove back to work. In honoring her wishes, there will be no visitation or services. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Yes, sir. And, and didnt have no church houses much then. Deborah (Debbie) Smalley, 69, of Myrtle Beach South Carolina unexpectedly passed away on December 4, 2022, at the Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, Give them, give her some, give her some beads, some beads, you know, and took the bread. And um, old master come along in one of them, one was ah, was there, having church around the tub and we was down praying. Mrs. Laura Smalley: Yes, maam. Unidentified Woman Interviewer: [During (?)] Unidentified Woman Interviewer: Just get together and sing and pray, eh? Cooking meals and delivering them, remembering your birthday, making sure every kid she knew had that special Christmas gift they were dreaming of. Yes, Mr.. And caught him. They said [Prade (?)] [she makes a swish sound to imitate falling stars] S-shhhh-s-hhhh-s-hhh-shhuh. Mrs. Laura Smalley: [laugh] I aint ??? Wasnt able to, to, tend to no, tend to no other children. 1942-2006. And he was going whup my, my mothers boy, pack water, and she was going fight them. 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