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Louise and Chrissy McCraw and Faith.
‘F aith’s’ Story
A Love Story
Louise McCraw, an avid
horsewoman of the Antioch
Community, is grooming her
pure-bred Arabian horse, “Our
Faith,” for horse shows while
teaching her two and one-half
year old daughter to ride.
In fact, the whole family
loves horses, including husband
Larry, who comes home from
Livingstone Coding Company of
Charlotte every evening and
helps care for the couple’s sue
horses which frolic on green
countryside on the old Dickson
100-year-old homeplace near
Antioch Baptist Church.
When Louise isn't working at
Foote Mineral Company where
she is a chemical operator, she
heads for the pasture and saddles
up Faralymn, Faith, and
Rocket, all pure-bred Arabians,
or Star of Night, a black walking
horse. Their daughter. Crystal is
learning to ride Andy, a
quarterhorse, and like her
mother adores Faith and Silver
Shoot, the foal of Farahlymn.
“Our Faith’s” story is,
however, a love story, according
to her owner, who said that she
raised a near-dead animal, nurs
ing her to health while nine mon
ths pregnant herself with child.
“Faith," who incidentally was
so named because her life was a
“miracle,” is daughter of 23-year-
old Wild Thyme and a natural
futurity champion stallion
called Lea Baron, the latter
which has been valued at
S8S,000.
According to her proud
owner, “Faith” comes from a
tong line of good, hardy stock
since her grandfather liv^ to be
age 32, longevity of survival for
horses, said Mrs. McCraw.
Faith weighed about 40
pounds at birth, could not stand,
and required bottle feeding for
sometime. Mrs. McCraw recalls
that she turned the animal every
two hours for days and nights
and kept her wrapped warmly in
what is now the renovated kit
chen of the couple’s two story
white colonial house which they
are remodeling and where they
have lived for five years. “Faith
had pneumonia, she was
dehydrated, and required my
constant attention,” said Louise,
who was having a difficult
pregnancy and was told by her
family and veterinarians to
“forget about this foal. She just
isn’t going to make it.”
Mrs. McCraw, who formerly
taught riding at stables in
Charlotte, did not give up on the
animal. “My faith had never
been too strong at that time but I
started praying for that animal
and for me. And we both surviv
ed and Faith is bringing real joy
to our lives.”
Baby Chrissy, who is the real
joy of her parents lives, arrived a
month late and 30 days after the
foal, weighing in at seven
pounds seven ounces and after
her mother was in 28 hours of
labor. Now Chrissy is two and
one-half years old. Faith started
growing by leaps and bounds
and now weighs about 600
pounds and the family is hoping
to enter her in an English
pleasure show. Her natural ac
tion is great, according to her
rider and trainer, and she will be
a natural winner.
“Horse riding and training is
good, clean fun,” according to
Mrs. McCraw, who hopes to
open her own riding stables as a
hobby at some future time. She
encourages people of all ages to
learn to ride and to show off
their horses. Mrs. McCraw has
won trophies for riding and both
she and her husband have ex
hibited their horses and brought
home numerous trophies.
Mrs. McCraw, the former
Louise Ledford of Shelby, grew
up on a farm. Although she-
owned no horses during her
growing-up years, the family
owned mules and other animals.
While teaching at a Charlotte
Riding Academy she also helped
break young colts and learned
advance riding in an English sad
dle from an Indian Trail man
who still enjoys horses and
riding at age 84.
Discipline and hard work are
both important factors for train
ing both the horse and rider, says
Mrs. McCraw who said that she
has taught horse lovers of all
ages to ride and properly care for
their animals. “I saw only two
kids fall off a horse during the six
years I was an instructor in
Charlotte and the horses didn’t
throw them. Riders must be
taught proper leads, coordina
tion, balance, and how to be
both firm and gentle,” she said.
Mrs. McCraw said she worked
with many teenagers and never
saw them get into trouble with
drugs or alcohol. They liked the
competition that a horse show
and training provides and they
were proud of their ac
complishments, whether the
horse won a trophy or not.”
“Faith really made a believer
out of me in many ways and
coming eyeball to eyeball with
death made me appreciate life,”
said Mrs. McCraw as she sat in
her comfortable kitchen with a
statue of a horse on the mantel,
trophies and her daughter on a
rocking horse nearby.
Louise and Larry McCraw ex
perienced a new birth for three
consecutive months, on a Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The foals arrived during the
months of January and
February and the baby came in
March. Looking back on those
days, Mrs. McCraw noted that
she was glad that the baby arriv
ed later than expected since she
had her hands full keeping a vigil
over the sick foal.
Horses are a big part of the
McCraw family’s life and they
expect to continue to love and
raise animals. They love their
hobby.
I Cons
Tuesday
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VOLUME 91 ■ NUMBER 52 - TUESDA YJUL Y 15,1980. KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Shooting Investigation Continues
Suspects Being Questioned
There have been no new ar
rests in connection with the
shootout early July 8th at the
Chesterfield Courts Apartments
on Margrace Road.
A 22-year-old woman, Beverly
Ernestine Mauney, was killed
and four persons were injured in
the incident which police say
was triggered by a dispute bet
ween a white family and a
neighboring black family.
A Forest City man, Henry
Boone, 33, described by police as
a friend of the Mauney family,
was jailed in Cleveland County
Jail on charges of second degree
murder.
Kings Mountain police said
yesterday at presstime that their
investigation is continuing, that
they are questioning more
suspects, and that additional ar
rests expect to be made.
Also injured in the shooting
was the dead woman’s father,
Ernest Mauney, 57, Herman
Queen, 25, and Kings Mountain
Police Sgt. Johnny Belk. Both
Belk and Mauney continue
hospitalized at Kings Mountain
Hospital where both are
reported in good condition.
Queen has been discharged from
the local hospital and a fourth
shooting victim. Gene Mauney,
20, brother of the dead woman,
was treated for injuries and
released.
Thomas Harper, executive of
ficer of the Kings Mountain
Housing Authority which
operates the 50 family low-rent
housing complex three miles
south of the city, said that only
one family has moved from
Chesterfield Court since the inci
dent. The family lived next to
the apartment of Wilma
Mauney and has moved into
another similar apartment at
another site operated by the
Housing Authority.
Benjamin Kootsher, a field
representative with the
Charlotte office of the N.C.
Human Relations Council, said
Friday that his report to the
state office in Raleigh heis been
filed. “I have found absolutely
no evidence of racial problems.
It was a domestic situation with
two children and the parents in
volved. There was a black and
white confrontation but we
don’t know if this was after the
fact or a result of it. Most people
I’ve talked to, including those at
the Chesterfield Courts, agree
there is a good relationship in
Kings Mountain between blacks
and whites,” he added.
Dr. Davidson To Speak
Dr. Robert James Davidson,
91, longtime principal of the
former Davidson School and for
whom the school was named,
will return to Kings Mountain
Sunday to deliver the keynote
address at the third annual reun
ion of alumni at 3 p.m. at Mount
Zion Baptist Church.
Davidwn alumni will be arriv
ing in the city Saturday for a 2
pjn. picnic at Davidson Park, a
9 pjn. dance at Davidson Gym
nasium and other activities.
Dr. Davidson,- now of-
Charlotte, served as principal of
the all-black school for 20 years
and is remembered for his long
service on the KM rationing
board during the war years.
Davidson received a citation
from President Franklin D.
Vandalism
Is Reported
Several incidents of vandalism
and larceny are under investiga
tion by Kings Mountain Police
, Department.
Jewel Watson, of Battle
Forest Apartments, reported
that someone stole an electric
guitar, amplifiers, a wrist watch,
rings and a leather jacket valued
at S900 from her apartment dur
ing the weekend.
Anthony Perkins, Galilee Rd.,
reported that someone threw a
bottle at his car while he was
driving on North Piedmont
Avenue.
Becky Smith, of 1001
Princeton Dr., reported the theft
of a trail bike, valued at $300,
from her residence.
Julius Burton, 200 Waco Rd.,
reported that four tires were cut
on his vehicle parked at his
residence.
Gloria Smith, of 604 Bridges
Dr., reported that her 1973
Chevrolet was “egged.”
Mattie Carroll, of Watterson
St., reported that her house was
broken into during the weekend
but apparently nothing was
taken. Damages of $20 were
done to a window, she told
police.
Tommy Barrett, of 122 Center
St., reported the theft of a bicy
cle, valued at $125, and Edie
Blair, of 609 Crescent Circle,
reported theft of a bicycle,
valued at $150.
Gilbert Hamrick, of 308
Oriental Ave., reported theft of a
wallet containing personal
papers and an undetermined
amount of cash, and James Hen
son, of 205 N. Piedmont Ave.,
reported the theft of three per
sonal checks.
KIWANIS CLUB
Dr. William Manikas of
Gaston College will present a
program on relations between
the Soviet Union and the United
States, with particular emphasis
on the Persian Gulf and the oil-
producing states, at Thursday
night’s meeting of the KM
Kiwanis club at 6:45 p.m. at the
Woman’s club.
Roosevelt for his service on the
rationing board.
A native of Charlotte, Dr.
Davidson is the last surviving
child of 12 of the late Rev.
William M. and Mrs. Emma
Moore Davidson. He is a
widower and father of six
children, two of whom are in
education and three in medicine.
He resides with a daughter, Mrs.
Gwendolyn Cunningham in
Charlotte.
^ first principalship was in
bjiindaie at Western TJnion
Academy of Baptist Junior Col
lege and he served Hopewell
Baptist Church for 20 years as
pastor and retired from Shiloh
Baptist Church after 33 years.
He served as president of the
Ebenezer Sunday School Con
vention for 33 years, the
Ebenezer and Baptist State Con
vention for 50 years and general
supervisor of all Baptist churches
between Asheville and
Greensboro for 10 years. He was
listed in “Who’s Who of the Na
tional Clergy in America” in
1936.
Dr. Davidson completed his
educational training at Johnson
C. Smith University and
Theology Seminary with the
A.B. and S.T.B. degrees. Three
honorary doctorate degrees have
been conferred on him, one by
his alma mater, and the other
two by Shaw University,
Raleigh, and Friendship Junior
College in Rock Hill, S.C.
DR. RJ. DAVIDSON
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