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I knew Billy and his family in Sumner, MS, when they lived upstairs over our store, the Lloyd Smith Grocery, in our building. Mrs. Stacy helped with my grandmother at one time. Billy was one of my best friends. Although Billy was a Baptist, he attended the youth service at our Presbyterian Church. He did not want to go there alone, though, so he would walk to my house on Sunday afternoon, across the RR tracks. The name of our group back then was Christian Endeavor, but Billy did not quite catch on to that name, and he would knock on our door and ask my mother if I was going to "the Christian and the devil" that day. He was always a popular kid, and a young gentleman in every situation. He was too nice for some of our rough friends, and they picked on him. Even when they mistreated him, he would never give in. Benny and Bobby were good kids too. Rose was born during this period of time and I remember her as a baby. After Billy moved to Winona, Pete Whitehead took him under his wing and everything Pete gave his own son, he gave a duplicate to Billy. I moved to the Winona area after Billy went on to Mississippi State, but I knew Pete there. (I also knew Jack Stanley, but that is entirely another story.) Please accept my sympathy. Billy was quite a guy!
Posted by Gordon Smith
Thursday February 20, 2020 at 12:23 pm
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