Another Cecil Johnson Story
When I was about 15 Year's old, this particular Saturday, I needed 25 Cents. That would get me a movie ticket at the Lyric, a bag of Popcorn and Train Ticket home. I noticed Cecil out in his grove of pecan trees, picking [up] pecans. I asked him did he need any help, I told him of my needs. He replied back, "No, didn't need any help." I just ignored him and started picking up pecans. We worked all afternoon and I did most of the talking and when we got the last bucket full, Cecil gave me a quarter and a dime !! When I left him, I ran all the way home, soo happy !! I also mowed his Yard a lot. I really liked Cecil.

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Back in the early 1940’s there was this story being told that involved Ed Parker, Hulon Parker, your (George’s) dad, E.C. Kelly and others, don’t remember their names. This group would meet on weekends at the old RR Depot and play poker. Ed and Hulon thought up a prank that they would pull.

They had gotten a pistol that shot blanks and they were going to act as if they got angry at each other, and one would shoot the other. They did this and as one of them fell over mortally wounded, E.C. Kelly fainted!! The prank backfired on them. They thought E.C. had died!

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As told to George by Jack about himself: One Sunday, he rode his bicycle to John Lester Gunter’s house; John Lester wasn't home, and as he rode back, someone, he can't remember who it was, came to the door and told him Pearl Harbor had been bombed. He rode all over Plantersville spreading the news. A couple of men debated where Pearl Harbor was, offering New Orleans and Jackson as possible locations. He said that a number of people in Plantersville later told him that they first learned about the Pearl Harbor attack from him.