[or-roots] Joab Powell ( from Aunt charlotte's book)

[DanM]

I surely miss those times Walt We had some fun in our family too, tho mom was not one to go to camp outs in those days, but we did go to some woodsman camps where the guys and families had fun in the summer, around the 1950's I was too young to remember the details, but I remember we had fun with food , music and stories.
    I was at one house raising where the men pre built all the walls ant pulled them up with ropes, I remember one was the wrong size and they let it back down to make changes, every one made an * awwww* in a manor that made the builders laugh so hard they almost dropped it.
Dan M = from Medford
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  Joab Powell was at that Camp Meeting. He thought himself quite a singer, maybe he was. I thought so anyway. He had a big, big voice that fairly made the woods echo. One of his favorite songs was "I yield, I yield, I can hold out no more to the pleadings of Mercy etc." He sang through his nose and I thought he said: "ienal, ienal," etc. and I could not find out what it meant. He sang another that went something like this: "Escape for life, with horror then my vitals froze." I thought he said: "Scrape for life, with horror then my victuap forze." I sang it with him as loudly as I could till Mother heard me and made me stop.I remember going to one Camp Meeting. Uncle Abram Garrison was the preacher. In those days, preachers were nearly always very poor, few of them had even a home, though land was to be had for the staking of it, and material for a cabin grew on the land, itself. Everybody was willing and glad to come to a "house raising" and there would be a home quite as good as anyone else had. But most of the preachers traveled about from settlement to settlement and stayed wherever night overtook them. That was not true of Uncle Abram, he was a farmer and an unusually thrifty one.

  Walt Davies
  Cooper Hollow Farm
  Monmouth, OR 97361
  503 623-0460 
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