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In wasdoiru: Tlu- Itev. Williams was sitting in a brown,
wooden skiff, his ml. billed rap pulled well over Ins \
eves and eyeglasses. Tlx* angled: uti glinted off the ar- /
hficial floater" he had flipped out across Lockwood's e
Kelly Itiver toward the hank and was leading hark in c
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Tall i;i eon cypress leaned over the river and IjC'ls of
pifkerehvei'd rupn repaid alone Itulli I tanks hlue snikfed
flowers tall above the leaves Kiddlcr crabs rustied j
aionn the path ttuit led to the little boat and its occupant. t
It wasn't a pood afternoon for fishing; the wind was
too strong from the south. Williams announced as lie |
pulled closer to shore to continue the conversation. w
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You do Uuit." he? said, flipping the line out again,
'and Ix'fora you know it. you've go! a big bass on it or a
ark and a jack fights harder than a bass
I've caught sonic giants of both on this river."
Williams was a slip of a boy. in the fourth grade,
vhen he first felt the stirrings of his call to the ministry
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it Willi Ins preacher. who announced lo anybody and
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Not ev?'rvlKKly accootod th?* id?*a said Williams,
nice he was a "good" little boy. shy. quiet-spoken and
lot one people uiwuM.i v.r.uld ever have enough v.ordc
ir voice for proarhing.
Today, lie said, some of those same people speak
uglily ol lus preaching and come to mm ior heip in
indcrslanding "the deep questions" of tin- Bible.
He moved the boat again and pointed toward a
urve on the tank behind him. "You can take a trot line
ml put hooks on it about four feet apart and run it bet
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the curve," he said, ai d you'll catch catfish."
Williams returned only recently to Brunswick
County, to a mobile home near the C O. Blanton place in
Supply. The red clay and rocky fields of the Piedmont
didn't suit hint like the coast, though the ministry has
often led him inland.
Williams grew up just above the Corkwood's Kolly
Kivcr on N.f*. 211. He marks its length with descriptive
terms such as the Glue Shed. Turkey Pen. l/jg I binding
and Dinner Spring.
Still, he recollected, "there wasn 1 as much time f',r
fishing a* you might think My father Benjamin
l-'rsnklir. : kept :::e v crkir.g either en the
or at the mill."
The mill stood at a spot near the bridge where a
natural at lesion flu? jiipr'l to a Hiirfncc opi^ot continues
its steady drip.
From the time he went to wearing knee-pants, said
Williams, he helped fire the mil! where board lumber
and shingles were milled, cotton ginned and corn
ground. On Saturdays, Williams worked with just
Peyton Holden. a miller, grinding corn for people who
carne from miles and miles around.
in between wutk he went to school and also to
church at Mt Pisgah Baptist.
At age 21, he was called to his first church, at
Bolivia. It was for only three months; he had to leturn
to school. His family not able to help out. Williams
worked his way through Buies Creek Academy - now
Campbell University, and Wake Forest College, I.ater
he was minister at New Fife Baptist Church in the county
Since leaving the area, recalled Williams, he has
helped pull back together seven or eight splintered
churches before lus retirement.
"I retired six times." he said with something
resembling a laugh. ! tried to retire the first lime in
1962."
But a church called him to "help out.'"
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RKV. TOM WILLIAMS, age 87. recently retired from
the ministry?for the sixth time.
He was 80 years old when he took his iast church i so
far), a small and "sweet" Missionary* Baptist congregation
in the Broadway-Pittsboro area that he hated
to leave.
"But 1 was worn out," said the minister. His nerves
troubled him. he had lost his sight in one eye and in turn
had cut a thumb off.
' I've got my eye fixed, the thumb put back on and
my nerves are almost straight again." he said,
straightening his shoulders as he moved the boat and
tossed his fishing line toward another likely spot. "If I
had felt as good as I do now. I wouldn't have quit."
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