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The Searcy County Historical Society will meet Friday, October 25, at 7:00 pm in Marshall’s First Christian Church. The program will be given by James Troy Massey on his three Confederate ancestors: Captain James Tyrie Wright, Captain Giles Wright and Private Isaac Horton; and his three Union ancestors: Corporal James Jackson Barnes, and privates James K. O’Neal and Jackson Cassell who fought from Searcy County. He will also give a brief sketch of WBTS (Civil War) activity in Searcy County.

Fall has begun and the temps have started to cool. Grass continues to grow, and the days are gradually getting shorter. We Arkansans, however, are used to summer leaving, returning, leaving, and sometimes returning again. Remember Genesis 8:22 (as long as the earth endures, summer and winter will never cease) and just enjoy the days as they come (Psalm 118:24!). As one neighbor stated, “Nothing we can do about the weather but gripe and griping doesn’t help anyway.”

Last Sunday was the first day of Fall but it was 94 degrees. Seems to me like it’s been a short summer.

Last Thursday I went to the Mountain Wave office and visited with Charity Rolen. I went to the Revival at our church. Noel Moore preached tonight. He did a great job. The singing was great. I saw three deer in Ricky Horton’s field. They were very pretty.

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Sunday weather was so nice and cooler all day. The kind of weather I enjoy, so long as it doesn’t get any warmer. Waiting on the great grands so they came play out in the yard raking leaf piles and jumping in them. Wanted to take them so they could swing on grape vines but got to find some first. Took two of my youngest grandsons so they could swing on grape vines. First it broke with them and didn’t think it was too funny to play on.

Hebrews 4: 12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

This week we continue meeting the ‘old timers’ along Cozahome Road. I first met Dale Laffoon at the age of 13 when he came over the hill from his home to help out my family who had just had a flat at the end of his driveway. He was instrumental in my own move to the area as he had a brother-in law (Allen Watts) that had a home for rent further out the Cozahome Road. Dale had two young sons with him that day. Fast forward many years later, and the older of those sons helped me write this story for us today. Aubrey Dale Laffoon was born in Harrison, Arkansas in 1959, and has lived his entire life on his family’s 85acre farm at Cozahome. He married Teresa Milam Vickers from Dover, and between them they have 4 children: Dempsey, Gary, Sasha, a nurse in Mountain Home, and Andrew, who works at Ranger Boats in Flippin. They also have 10 grandchildren and 2 nephews that are like grandchildren AND three GREAT grandchildren!