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"Building communicative bridges in a tri-racial setting"
VOLUME 19 NUMBER 10 THURSDAY. MARCH 7. 1991 25 CENTS PER COPY
Whatever Happened to ...
Dovie McMillian Locklear
by Barbara Iiraveboy-Locklr.ar
Special to THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
With old age often comes privilege. Mnf. Do vie
McMillian LockJear knows plenty about both longevity
and rights. She's 98 years old; of sound mind and still
wields power of authority.
litis is especially so when it comes to matters affecting
her health care. And she's certain of one thing on the
subject She hates taking shots, "I don't like taking 'em
and never will."
She says that when the "flu" vaccination was
introduced in the area not so many years ago her
physician practically demanded that she get a shot
"He even told me if I didn't cooperate with him. he'd
'tell my sons on me. I told him he could tell them if he
'wanted to, it wouldn't do no good because Tm my own
boss. They're not"
Bom and raised in the While Hill community, Mrs.
Locklear was the oldest child of four children born to
William McMillian and Maggie Locklcar McMillian. Mrs.
Locklear is the only living child of the couple.
She married Edward locklear in 1910. Born to the
couple were 12 children. Pour died in infancy. Five sons
and three daughters live today.
Mrs. Locklear says she well remembers working hard
while growing up in her native Robeson County.
"1 had a good mule to plow. 1 mean that mulle could go.
His name was Henry," she fondly remembers. Mrs.
Locklear received her early education from Harpers
Ferry School, Barton School and the Indian Normal School
in Pembroke. . | . ? im pish
Lumbee great-great- grandmother says she remembers
one patient in particular.
"She'd had a miscarriage and did not get proper
medical attention. I'd go every morning and care for
her...cook breakfast then come home. I'd go back and
cook dinner and return and cook for my family."
Seven days of cooking three meals a day for the
patient's family and three meals for her own family in
addition to "washing and boiling" the clothes of the ill
woman took its physical toll on Mrs. Loeklear. She says
when the woman died she was unable to attend her
funeral because of the exhaustion.
There were to be dozens of patients she'd care for. far
and near.
And during post war years'when food products were
rationed, Mrs. Loeklear would travel to neighboring
Scotland County to gel lard and meat for community
people.
"I'd travel in our 1936 Ford to Laurel Hill, load the car
down and come back and give practically everything I*d
gotten away," she remembers. "I always felt a need to
help other people when they were in need."
She says her husband was a good nalurcd person and
always offered support and encouragement to her efforts
in rendering service to ill and oppressed people.
Good health has protected Mrs. Loeklear for the most
part of her life. She'd never been hospitalized until 1974
when she suffered a fall and dislocated an elbow.
Upon arriving at the emergency room of a local
hospital, she was told she had to stay. The order didn't set
very well with her. but she reluctantly allovspH a doctor to
Mn. Dovie McMillian LockUar
After her marriage she and her husband lived a brief
time with his parents in the Prospect community before
moving to the rural Red Springs area where they engaged
in sharecropping on the Jim Town send farm near Island
Grove Baptist Church. They were to live there
approximately 40 years. It was there they rasicd their
eight children.
It was also there that Mrs. loeldcar began a journey in
serving the needs of the ill and downtrodden people in
and around the New Prospect community. It was a
journey that was to span several decades.
"1 reckon that's why I've lived as long as 1
have... taking care of .sick people," she comments. The
admit her as a patient. When the doctor suggested
surgery to correct her injury she insisted on being
released from the hospital. Two days later she returned
home without the surgery and recovered "just fine."
? Lost year when she had a bout with pneumonin she was
hospitalised under the care of her physician grandson.
Kenneth Locfclear. Her daughter, Myrtle, says she wont
to visit her mother and was approached by her mother's
anxious intensive care unit nurse.
"I just knew Dove had taken for the worse and it scared
me." the daughter recalls.
Her worry was short-lived when the nurse assured her
that Mrs. LockJear'g condition had not worsened. Instead
the excitement was that Mrs. Locklear had requested that
she be given her snuff and a newspaper to rend. Mrs.
Loddear was recovering and would soon be home again.
And it is home where she lives with an unmarried son
and daughter that Mrs. Locklear is most happy. .She rises
early in the day to a playing television and to one of four
newspapers she reads daily.
. "I love to read them front to back." she says of the
newspapers. Even her children say visitors in her home
are hard-pressed to get much conversation from their
mother if there is a newspaper in hand's reach. The
98-year-old matriarch was fitted with glasses last year for
the first lime in her life. And though she can still thread a
needle with case, she no longer quills.
"We got so many quilts now, we don't need to quilt
anymore."
Don't suggest daily naps to Mrs. Locklear. "1 don't
take naps because I don't want to," she argues.
But the one thing, she wants to do is shop. "Tkkc her to
town several limes during the week and she's happy,"
says her daughter. Myrtle. It used to be Mrs. locklear
thought nothing of walking from Lsland Grove Baptist
Church to Red Springs several times a week. Then
sometimes she'd lake the family mule and buggy for her
shopping trips.
Mrs. Locklear is a longtime member of Island Grove
Church and one of Green Fines Church senior citizens
club where she meets every Tuesday for a day of
socialising and club activities.
Yes, old age has its privilege. And for Mrs. Locklear it
has offered her the blessings of 31 grandchildren; 48
great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
She has lived to enjoy the fruits of five generations.
She says she owes her long life to the Good Master
caring for the ill and downtrodden and to a sensible health
program which has included very few shots which she
says she never needed in the first place.
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Then an to be four conferences to
consider ? North Carolina High
School of Social Studies. On Friday,
March 8, the conference will be held
at the Oid Main Dnflding on the
Pembroke State University Campus.
March 15 the conference will be
held at Broyhill Inn & Conference
Center at Appalachian State.
April 12 the conference will be at
the Conference Center at Elizabeth
City Stat# University.
April 2ffthe conference will be at
UNC-A&eville at the Owen Confe
rence Center, 3rd floor.
Each conference begins at 8 a.m.
and ends at 5 p.m. John Rimbeig is
the Conference Coordinator. He may
be reached at 919-738-9000
Property Tax Relief for Elderly and Disabled Persons
North Carolina exclude* from
property taxes the first $12,000 in
assessed value of certain property
owned by North Carolina residents
who are aged 85 or older or who are
totally and permanently disabled and
whose annnal disposable income
docs not exceed $11,000. The
exclusion covers real properly (or a
mobile home) occupied by the owner
in eonneelion with his or her
permanent residence. Disposable
income includes all monies obtained
other than Rifts or inheritances
received from a spouse, lineal
ancestors, or lineal descendants. If
you have not been receiving I he
exclusion and are now eligible,
you can apply at (he Robeson Coun(y
Tax Office. You musl apply before
April 15. For further information cail
919-671-3054. After 6 p.m. call
919 521 3165.
Magnolia School News i
Nicole & Smith of Magnolia School has been chosen to
participate in the North Carolina Youth legislative
Assembly in Raleigh on March 1-3. She is the daughter of
April Smith and the late David Smith. Nicole is one of the
ten Robeson COunty students sponsored by Title V
Indian Education.
Magnolia School celebrated its final homecoming
February 8 with a packed gym. Sherry Clark was crowned
homecoming queen. She is a senior and Ihe daughter of
Darncy and lltyilis Clark.
John W. Sampson, former conch, was the grand
marshal for the occasion. PSU Is endowing n basketball
scholarship as a tribute to him and his fine work at
Magnolia. '?
A reception was held throughout the day in the school
library. The alumni gathered throughout the dky
renewing friendships and reminiscing about their
Magnolia years. Special bulletin boards were prepared
with pictures from annuals of past years which all
enjoyed.
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Robeson Young Republicans attend reception at Governor's mansion
A group of 14 Robeaonians traveled to
Raleigh to attend a reception at the Gover
nors Mansion Feb 26 in Raleigh. The group
were members of a recently formed Young
Republicans Qub.
This particular reception was attended by
70 person's which gave Governor James 0.
Martin an opportunity to have a close-up
and personal conversation with those at
tending.
Those attending from Robeson County
were Sieve Stone, Chairman, Andy Adams.
Lisa Willis, Carlton Brio. Lodoska Britt
from Lumbenon, Ginger Bluerake, Michael
Hatcher, Ronald Sanderson, and Fanny
Todd, Buffy Lawson, Stacy Oaendine from
Pembroke and Timothy Lane from Red
Springs.
The Robeson County Young Republican
were formed in January 1991
at an organisational meeting held at
Pembroke State University. The orga
nisation was chartered with II charter
members. This local club is affiliated with
the North Carolina Federation of Young
Rapubttcani and has ties to Iw National
Pfdffation of Young Republicans.
The RubeaonCounty Young Republicans
want you, if you are intereesed in joining an
organization that is active in 50 stales, with
a membership of over 500,000 members.
It provides its members with an op
portunity to become involved ia community
affairs, which also makes a difference in
their own local communities, and assist
honesty, equality and openness at ad levels
of government
The members plan to attend and par
ticipate in the Robeson County Republican
Party Convention March 5th. The conven
tion will select delegates to the State Con
vention of Young Republicans Match 22-24
in Winston-Salem as well as delegates to the
North Carolina Republican Convention to
be held May 31 and June 1 in Wilmington.
The new club is also in the planning stages
ofa trip to Washington Dr. this summer to
speak to the North Carolina Congressional
delegation and a possible trip to the White
House is being considered.
Anyone wishing to inquire into the
membership of the organisation can contact
Stave Stone at 739*1723 or write Robeaon
County Young Rapuhlicaa Club PjO. Boa
9011 umberton. Nr. 2S35V or any member
of the club U?ed above
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