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Rev. Jasper Brossette (J.B.) Wilson Family |
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(B.A., M.Th., D.D.) (1909-1982) Glenmora, LA.
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I still have a few pictures in one of daddy's photo albums that I
keep. There is a picture of his mother, Lucy Rachel, in the photo
album also. As soon as I pull the photo album out of a box I have
it packed in from my move from Louisiana to Georgia, I will get them
to you. Most of all, I would appreciate it if you would be able to
put daddy's picture there because he loved Cane River, talked about
it often and carried me there two or three times a year, especially
during the Christmas holidays, to take his mother's only surviving
sister gifts. I didn't not know my grandmother Lucy, but daddy took
me to Cane River to see his Aunt all of the time, as well as an
uncle who lived in Alexandria.
I still remember the uncle shooting the TV with his shotgun the
night Jimmy Davis won the Louisiana governorship AGAIN. You
remember the Louisiana governor who recorded the song, "You Are My
Sunshine?" Uncle was so angry when he saw Jimmy Davis' picture on
KALB TV announcing that he had won again, he got his shotgun and
shot the TV. I remember going with daddy to Sears in Alexandria and
buying his uncle another TV set. I am LOL as I reminisce about
this. (Smile)
I remember daddy telling me how he was an altar boy at St.
Augustine. My daddy spoke Latin, the original language that the
Mass was given in, fluently. I guess that is why he was such a
wonderful Bible Lecturer when he joined the Baptist Church at age
21. He went to a revival with some of his Baptist friends and he
told me that he heard my mother, Ruthie, sing and that was all it
took to change his mind from being a priest. (Smile) I used to
enjoy him telling me how he met the mother I never knew...but I look
just like her. Maybe one day I will have an opportunity to tell you
the whole story.
I
don't know if you remember my cousin, Henry Alexander Lezine or
not. He was the son of daddy's baby sister. Daddy and Ruthie
raised him until he was 15 and he stayed in the big white boarding
house with Mrs. Florence Benson and went to school in Oakdale for
two or three years because Glenmora did not have a high school for
Blacks during the 1940s.
ANYWAY,
let me get off of this computer and stop reminiscing. I don't have
too many relatives to talk with like this because I don't know many
of my people.
As soon as I am able to get
some of the pictures out of daddy's photo album I have packed down
somewhere I will get them to you. Cuz, PLEASE take it easy and heal
well.
Lots of huggggs to you and
your family,
Ada Ruth
-------------- Original message from "Herbert Metoyer" <caneriver@ameritech.net>: ----------
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