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^ORSDAY, AUGUST 7, »8(l PAGE 11, THE CAROUNA INDIAN VOICE LOWRY FAMILY REUNION byR.H. Lowiy The family of Marvin antf' lella Lowry, formerly of erabroke. now deceased, eld iheir reunion in Virginia ;each. Virginia the third week nd in Joly- They came from ive states to Virginia to N# ominue a custom began in ,e early seventies of getting together every two years to [rengthen family ties, brou- L up to date on family news. * some family type recrea tional activities and stomach stuffing, and retell some of the stories relating to life on a small family farm in Robeson County in the thirties and forties. Our roots lie deep in Robe son County. Our dad was the youngest son of Haynes Lowry and Ida Strong Lowry. Haynes was a son of Thomas Lowry and Ida Strong was a ■Slh." ii above, from left to Kht, are Marvin, Murrill, &na]d. Corliss, Tolbert, and K,B. Foregroond-The Mule- drawn “Sweep” Plow, a relic of the family farm. ]Photo by Philip Andrew Lowry] daughter of Andrew Strong. Our mother was the oldest daughter of H.H. Lowry and Julia Revels Lowr . H.H. Lowry was the elde-' son of Calvin Lowry. Thomas and Calvin were older b others of Henry Berry Lowry oid sons of Allen Lowry, the pi\ genitor of a prominent Indian family in Robeson Count) during the pre-Civil War Era Our dad's mriher died during his infanry and his mother's half-sisier. Fannie Dial, raised and guided him during his youth in and around Pembroke. After serving in France during World War 1. he was discharged in Norfolk. Virginia and remained there to become a street car motor man after the end of tiie first World War. Our parenis were marri ed inNorfolk on September 21, 1921. and moved to Richmond, Virginia shortl; after marriage to continue his occupation because a strike shut down the Norfolk Transient System. Their first child was bom in Richmond in the summer of 1922. the only one to be bom in a hosptial. The rest of us were born at home in Robeson County by the railroad tracks about half way between Pem broke and Lumber River at two year intervals. Our dad's Aunt Fannie died in 1923 and he was named sole heir lo her properly. He gave ii|) his job in Richmond and reliirned lo Robeson County to raise hi.s family on a family taim. During the twenties, he taught school in Robeson County's one-room school system while he formed his Manpower Organization to take on farming full time. He chose to ride out .‘he Depress ion Years of the early thirties full time on the farm, and remained there for the balance of his lifetime. We were raised on the farm under a strict disipiinary sys tem which placed emphasis on lots of work, minimal amount of waste, and the development' of a good moral character. During the summer vacation from school, we would average a 16-hour workday on the farm, including the chores and the three meals, for six days each week. We got our half day of rest on Sunday after noons. after going to Sunday School and church on Sunday mornings. We got two cooked meals on Sundays, as there was always enough food left over from Sunday dinners to satisfy hungry appetites on Sunday nights. All the work was provided by mule and manpower and we began the day at 4 a.m. by doing the chores and feeding the mules so they could be in the fields pulling plows at daybreak. The farm was almost totally self- sufficient. providing us with most all the food we consum ed. wood for heating and cooking, and nearby Lumber River provided a recreational setting for fishing and swim ming. Home remedies were used quite extensively for sickness and injuries. Examples of some used on us included: for mumps--soak them well with warm sardine oil, tie a baby's diaper around them and re main inactive until the swell ing goes down; for infections and injuries caused by step ping on rusted nails-start a lire in an empty lard can, smother it with wool rags and hold your foot over the smoke to draw out the germs; for pregnancy nausea, our mother would chew hardened rosin from the sweet-gum tree. The Railroad served as a clock, a source of revenue, an energy source, a pathway, as well as a communicative out let. During the steam engine era, the North Bound Freight Trains would stop South of Pembroke while the engines would get their boilers filled with water. Farm produce was sold to the men riding the caboose. Friendly relation ships were established with railroad personnel. Wasted coal along the tracks and discarded crossties were used for fuel, posts, and for build ing bridges and hog pens. Besides the sun, passenger train schedules determined when certain events took place on a daily farm schedule. The railroad was a direct pathway to Pembroke and to Lumber River. Railroad hoboes were quite active during ilic thir ties, and between hitching rides on freight trains, some would slop by (he house to ask lor a free handout of fixKi and the privilege (o camp for the night in a pine thicket. Un cold nights, hoboes were allowed to sleep under the tobacco barn shelter in the hay, once our dad made sure they had no matches. Sometimes they would be required to work for their meal by cutting wood or a dilchbank. If they did a good job. some extra food would be given to them to take along on their journey along the rail road. Our life on a family farm provided the setting for the origination of many anecdotes. Our parents' frugal nature and the desire to produce a family of good m«al character re sulted into a situation which denied us the luxury of owning a bicycle, a rowboat, going to the movies, loafing in Pem broke on Saturday afternoons, or spending nights away from home with boyhood friends. Later on the younger members of the family did acquire ownership of bicyles, after they proved to be an asset for running errands and a means of transportation to school. The highlight of our reunion, as always, is the telling of events which occurred while we were growing up on the farm. Stories of how we learned to swim in Lumber River, while our parents thought we were picking cot- FOIt .SALE Good. Clean Used Cars. Best Buys in Town. Easy Financing Available. See Ricky Oxendine al DOBBS MOTORS Lumbee Indian Arts & Crafts Call 521-4787 Oxendine’sX HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONER SERVICE^ Phone 521-2244 ' Rt 1. Box 374-A y Pembroke N C 28372 / WOOD’S SIGNS For All Your Sign Needs! Route 1, Box 426 Pembroke, N.C. 28372 Phone 521-2937 RONALD WOODS •Real Estate Sales*Rentals •Apts.•Mobile Homes •Moble Home Spaces , For Listing Call 521-2545 Owner. James H. Oxendine Try The FILLIN’ STATION Noon Buffet from 11 to 2. All the Pizza andy^ Salad you can Eat T for only $2.59’ i Tuesday night from 6-9 We Offer The same Buffet. THOMAS CO. PARTS COMPLETE SERVICE iQN DEPT. CALL US FOR FULL SERVICE 739-4724 CENTRAL AUTO SALES (ACROSS FAOM PEMMOKE TEXACO •BEST DEALS IN TOWN Phofse 521-4029 Agricultural and Constructioo H, L. Brewington Enterprises Certified (Sonlraclcrr '\£j Traveling in Detroit? CAU DOWNRIVER TRAVEL AGENCY Telephone 7J9-7312 Hardy L. Brewington PEMBROKE UPHOISTERY •Over 11 Years Experience! •Complete Furniture Rebuilding & Upholstery. •Estimates Given Grover Locklear, Owner 521-4990 BURNS UPHOLSTERY Located on Highway 74 Near Dobbs Used Parts. •Custom Upholstery! Call REV. 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LOWRY’S CHAIN SAW SERVICE Located on Laurinburg-Maxton Airbase- Rt. 2, Box 64, Maxton, N.C. 28364 •Poulan Chain Saw & Weed Eaters •Homelite Chain Saws •Jacobsen Lawnmowers •Hydraulic Hose & Fitting •Briggs & Stratton Engine & Parts CALL 844-5132 - SAVE A LOT! Barton’s Printing Center Call 521-8384 Grand Opening Easter Weekend FLOWERS AND CRAFTS Located at Sim's Restaurant Pembroke. N.C. •Flowers 'Plants 'Crafts For Every Occasion Bobbie Revels and Mabel Maynor, owners and designers. ^Die (Eioltf tKuslle 2548 Fayetteville R(j., Lumbenon, - 738-6649 Visa, Master Charge - Easy Credit Terms MON.-SAT.WOA.M. to 6:00 P.M., WED. 9:30 A.M.-1 P.M •JEWELRY DESIGN •INSURANCE APPRAISALS •DIAMOND GRADING •GEM IDENTIFICATION LOWRY’S COUNTRY STORE Now Selling Seed at Wholesale Price! •Complete line of seed •Grocery 'Hardware •All kinds of seed 'Notions Joe Lowry, Proprietor Call 521-4026 Located on Red Banks Road Less Than A Mile East of Prospect School. camna iOCKSMITil & Locks Repaired TED’S Lock & gun repair Route 2, Box 389 Pembroke, N.C. 2072 Phone919-521-3523 licensed Gnn Smith •Professional Security Cmtsuitant PEMBROKE VETERINARY HOSPITAL Announces that Veterinary Services are available to ani mal owners... -In patient hospital for pets -Mobil unit for farm visits -Pet and herd health care -Pet grooming, baths and flea dips -Emergency Service -24 Hour Answering Service Hwy. 711,1 Mi. East of Pembroke - 521-3431 [4895] D.E. BROOKS, D.V.M. • FREE ESTIMATES ^•EXPERT INSTALLATION A CARHtr WALLPAPER - VINYL PEMBROKE CARPET SERVICE JOHN'S GARAGE 8 Miles West of Lumberton Off Hwy. 74 •WE SPECIALIZE IN AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS! John B. Locklear. Jr., Proprietor •18 Years Experience BUSINESS SERVICE Carolina Indian Voice’s DIRECTORY ton lor a neighbor, how we went lo our first movie in Pembroke, without our pa rents' permission, when they Ihmighi we were going to a carnival, and how we missed attending our first Robeson Fair in Lumberton because our dad refused to pay a 25c parking fee, are some exam ples. To explain the parking fee incident, we were near the gate to (he fairgrounds, and our Dad not believing in having to pay to park his car, was going to pay our way into the fair and then drive his car to a free parking area. The attendant demanded his park ing fee, and after a short heated exchange of verbiage, we were ordered back into the car by our Dad and went home. I had to wait until the County Fair moved to Pem broke, berfore attending my first one. We were encouraged to take advantage of all educational opportunities available to us. As a result our family earned 14 degrees from 10 colleges and universities representing 6 states, including 2 degrees from former Pembroke State College in Pembroke, North Carolina. We had 37 people at our Virginia Beach Reunion, in cluding the entire family of Mrs. Delton H. Lowry of Pembroke, who was invited to join us in our gala family affair in Virginia. We were sorry that our only sister, Barbara of Matthews, North Carolina, could not attend. We have already initiated plans for our 1982 Reunion in California, after having had them in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. A 10 POUND CANTALOPE! Mary Lynn Jacobs is shown displaying a 10 pound cante- loupe grown in the garden of her parents, Howard and Mary Lee Jacobs of Route 1, Rowland. Mary Lynn said that the family was planning to eat the cantaloupe. [Bruce Barton photo] THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE 521-2826 Toronto, Canada, was orig inally named York. JlumJj£.xton ^Satgical ^isociatr^, iP.c/f. c:^nnounc.£. t/is c^i6.ocLation of: X. Want, ^xactice. Xlimitsd to ^ens’uxt Spie.aLa£ dJnte.is^i: Q/asau£ax ^wenty-t^cueni^ ^tx£.£.t, XumfjE.xioa, cNo\tfi daxoHina X^£.Lfifion£ (g]g) 738-8556 Office, ci^ouxi: !Sy C^fip-ointmcnt The Fireplace Alternative Ty? Mosii=rs Choik-^ woodslove Us cr.-ciilot'l,- in tv,-^ pail’ll stev and os a iireplact? ipfs l(^ moke your tireplOL-e on [Eefjance Meeting the Challenge May Be Seen At... PEMBROKE CARPET SERVICE Third Street - Pembroke M & M STOVE SALES Maynor’s Center, Hwy. 72 or WOOD STOVES BY DEFIANCE OF LUMBERTON Intersection 211 & Old 74
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