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Story Archives: Country life like a piece of heaven


Country life like a piece of heaven
by Robert Charles Payne - posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 @ 3:05 pmE-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
My daddy was reared in Franklin Parish. He was a Crowville boy. Wow, I did enjoy my trips to Crowville and Winnsboro. Sometimes instead of turning at Baskin to go to Crowville, Daddy would go on to Winnsboro where we would always stop to visit with my Uncle Jay.

Uncle Jay had worked at the Nelson Tractor Company most of his life. After visiting with him, we would head to Grandmother and Grandaddy Payne's on a small farm a few miles out of Crowville. I guess you could say that they lived in the suburbs where a lot of their neighbors were cows, horses and chickens. But for a young boy from the city, visiting in the country was more entertaining than Six Flags. I don't think they had a Six Flags when I was growing up anyway.

I loved making the trips to Crowville and Winnsboro. Most of the Paynes lived around Crowville, but I had a few aunts and a cousin who lived in Winnsboro. As I got older, I would spend some time with my cousin Fabian Geisman. They lived across the street from James McLemore who I had become friends with over the years. About 50 years later, I became extremely close to James' cousin, Randy McLemore. Randy passed away over five years ago and I surely do miss him.

For the rest of Robert Charles Payne's column, see Page 6A of this week's Citizen.

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Robert Charles Payne is an inspirational writer who lives in West Monroe. He can be contacted by e-mailing robertcharlespayne@yahoo.com.
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