McComb Ride 1

Discoveries Part II

I was out riding around and decided to try to find the Holiday Inn in McComb, Mississippi. I had a vague idea where it was from the late '60's. I figured I could find it. I ended up riding all over McComb, finally giving up I stopped out on US.98 and asked for directions. I got "directed", a useless effort, and blundered my way there.
Why I was looking for it is a long story and not near as interesting as the one below, or maybe it is? Anyway, it is a National Inn now and was full of Katrina's displaced. I related to them from my previous experience there.

    Through the miracle of digital software and TWL, the online media giant, you are transported from the land smacked by Rita's Anger to the land smacked by Katrina's Anger, but fear not, this is not a story with one picture of distruction after another, though, I will show you just an example or two of what a storm can do to historical landmarks further driving home the message that you better buy your ticket before they're gone.
     No, like the picture above, this is a story about things that are still firmly in place, though they may have changed a bit, like us.
      For you who came here without reading the first segment, Discoveries, Click it to start there. There will be a link to here when you've read that. The new Rating System is explained graphically there.

Objects of Katrina's Anger being removed and this was away from "ground zero". Six plus weeks after the storm. La.450 headed north approaching MS. No more
hurricane pictures for a while.

Well, one more and we're through. This is a very big old store at Sunnyhill, La.. It was in real good shape and looked set to go another fifty years. Once the roof is gone, the end is near. I have the "before" picture.

I was angling toward Osyka and this house caught my eye. The chimney gives away the fact that it is old. The pink color is not some off the wall whim by the owner. Pastels, pink and blue, were common colors used on houses.

Why? I liked the porch.

I was now up behind (east of) Chatawa. I really dig these old homes and this one was spectacular.

I could easily imagine carriages coming to the front step and horsemen returning from the hunt. These houses are living proff that The South did rise again.

Oh, heck, here he goes with the cemeteries. Yep, just a few pictures and we'll see what we can get from them. We'll play "dates and names" and see if they cross.

William and Caroline Adelia were married, easy. She was five years his junior and she died twelve years after him. Sad. He was 67 when he passed and she was 79. Both did pretty well for their era.

I'll bet Emily was William's mom. She was 27 when William was born. That was prettly late in those days for a first born. I'll bet William was not her first child.

I'll bet,Van C Coney, born in 1840, was Adelia Coney, wife of William Dickey's, brother. (above). He was her older brother and no doubt a good friend of her husband, both being the same age. That's just 4 markers.
Limit the number of markers or it could take forever and then you'd be wrong. But it's fun in a morbid kind of way.

Then there's Cordelia's marker, She was married to a Simmons. Was she William Dickey's younger sister? Was Lena his sister also?

The Simmons home would be next, I bet. It was just down the road.

And the Simmons Cemetery was just a block down across the street. This must have been quite a community back then.

How many Dickeys or Coneys would we find there?

And so shall we.