Oh yeah, that's been a long time. My mother and father raised nine
children to get grown and married. And out of the nine, it's five dead
now and four living. Five dead and four living. And all them have
families in different parts of the world.
I have a sister named Beatrice Pointer Webster. She lives in Detroit,
Michigan. I have a brother named John Lewis Pointer. He lives in
Philadelphia. And I have a brother here named Willie Pointer, lives here
in Oxford. And I'm the next, Louise Pointer Morton. I'm the next. Well,
my mother raised us all up. We lived on a farm all of our life. And as
we got grown, the boys and all, they went off different places, working
and all.
And then, my grandma was living. My grandmother was named Margaret Yancey
Downey. My grandma was old but I was a small girl and she used to tell
us about the church and all.
So she told me the first [standing] of Jonathon [Johnson?] Creek Church,
she was [in] slavery. And she worked for the [Pittards]. And she said,
when they—colored people would get ready to have service, said they'd
get together and turn down a pot that would catch the sound. That way
they sung and prayed.
And said, well, by she was working in the [Pittards], said the white
people went to church, said she told her bossman, said, "Look-a-here."
Said, "We wants a church. Could
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church?"
Said he told us yes. And Jonathon Creek—the first land of Jonathon Creek
Church was given to my grandma, Margaret Yancey Downey. And she told us
that the first church they had, the men got together and built a log
church. And said they stayed in the log church and as the years rolled
over, said they built a frame church. And they named it Jonathan Creek
Baptist Church.