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In giving this history of Wilson County to my niece, I pointed out that Charles
Deason, my daddy's older brother, was quite a community leader. I guess today we
would call him an activist but he was instrumental in getting the first rural telephone line
- that matter :came up, atld he got on the telephone.
He called
the Pentagon, and he didn't 'ask them, he ordered them to send a plane
and get that boy and bring him up here to Arlington National Cemetery
and bury him with full military honors.
And they did
- order.
D:
Oh, well, that was a lot of fun. Horace and Whiteside always argued about who
was number one and number two. I didn't know there was an argument about
nine and ten.
R:
It's led a lot of conversation. Number eleven Harvey Payne, one of our