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Subject: Willis Pippin Jackson / story
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:40:01 EST

Uncle Willis had a little Mom and Pop store down the hill from where we lived
on Haddon Street. This is where we got our candies, and other assorted junk
food to carry up in East Hill Cemetery and have our picnics and play when we
were kids. I remember 2 for a penny candy and pop for a nickle,so were candy
bars. Mama would send us down to Uncle Willis's store to buy a nickels worth
of bolonga, if he cut it thick you got 5 slices, and if he cut it thin, you
got 10 or more slices. Uncle Willis must have give credit to everybody in the
family, plus all the goodies he handed out to us kids. Uncle Willis and his
little store is one of my fondest childhood memories.
He made sandwiches for the workers at the Bristol Door, a nickel for a
little sandwich or a dime for a big sandwich and he give credit to lots of
folks.
He wrecked a car hauling moonshine, it flipped several times and he was
crippled used a cane.
At the top of Hadon Street was Tom Merrit's little store, he wasn't
kin to us, but he was good to all us kids that lived there on the hill and
like Uncle Willis gave us goodies to haul off to East Hill to have picnics
and play. He use to give me pie tins and little coke bottles from the store
vendors so I could play house with them. I wish I had kept those lil coke
bottles, they'd be worth a lot of money now! They were miniture bottles and
the stuff in them moved when you tilted the bottle.
Descendants of Willis Pippin Jackson

1 Willis Pippin Jackson b: December 12, 1885 Burial: Mountain
View Cemetery, Bristol, Va. d: February 13, 1974 in Bristol, Virginia
.. +Sally Monroe Canter b: May 04, 1885 in Wallace,Virginia m:
December 09, 1913 in Washington County, Virginia Burial: Mountain View
Cemetery, Bristol, Va. d: June 01, 1949 in Bristol, Virginia Cause
of death: breast cancer
2 Clarence Benjamin Canter Jackson b: October 03, 1905 in Washington
County, Virginia Burial: Mountain View Cemetery, Bristol, Va.
d: September 08, 1958
.... +Elsie Mae Orfield b: 1908 Burial: Mountain View Cemetery,
Bristol, Va. d: 1944
*2nd Wife of Clarence Benjamin Canter Jackson:
.... +Stella Barger Campbell b: December 17, 1910 Burial: East
Lawn Memorial Park, Kingsport, Tennessee d: September 16, 1986 in
Bristol, Tennessee
2 Steve Canter Jackson b: February 03, 1910

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