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I found your site and like it very much - keep it growing.
Do you know anything about the farm the Bibb owned at the
corner of Brown Bridge and Crowell Road? At least I think
it was located there. Billy Crowell mentioned it once in an
article and referred to it as a dairy in 1935.
I am reasonably sure my grandfather once worked this farm,
but I can find no more about him than I can this property.
Are copies of The Bibb Recorder available for research?
You mention Billy and Bobby Payne. I was in school with
both of them, which means I was there with you also. I
remember both of them so where are you in my memory? I'm
sure you are there somewhere. Bobby kept me from getting a gold
star on appearance in the fifth grade so how could I ever forget
him?
Many thanks.
Peggy.
Sent: 3/12/2004 2:40:41 PM
Subject: Farm
In answer to your question, I am Peggy Berry and my parents were
John and Lennie. He was a policeman until he wanted to move back to
their farm in the Salem Community.
Mother worked in "the cloth room" for a number of
years. I graduated in 1948 in Covington because when the schools
consolidated I could ride the bus to and from and not have to find a
place to stay from before 7 A.M. until school opened.
Everette Veal did have a dairy but it was in Rocky Plains,
Roseberry Road area. Both Mr. Everette's and the other would
have been easy walking distance. I believe I could have walked ten
miles for a pint of his chocolate milk. It had a taste all its
own..
The farm I have reference to is where the Bibb later built a
golf course. The silo to the farm still stands today.
Peggy
P. S. Do you remember a man called "Snook" Childs?
Was he a ball player at P'dale or something?
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