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December 13, 1977 around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the December 13, 1977 issue of the Adair County news. Topics included some tall tales from the funeral business, some competing--and now demonstrably inaccurate--prognostication about the population of Adair County in the year 2020, and Joe Taylor, Jr.'s love of Lindsey Wilson Basketball. --Pen By Ed Waggener Take it easy this time, please Marshall Rowe says that this really happened in Adair County. He says that a woman died and the funeral was held and the body was being transported to the cemetery. The hearse was one of the old horse-drawn ones. The road to the gravesite was rough and rocky. The driver hit a chug-hole in the road and he heard a scream. It was the corpse, come back to life. Apparently, the woman had just been in a coma. She returned to live a full life, for several more years. When she finally died, the process was repeated again. There was the funeral and the trip to the cemetery. As the driver of the hearse was approaching the place where the woman had come back to life, her husband ran up and stopped the drivers of the hearse. He warned the drivers this time, "Now men," he said, "y'all remember what happened the last time we got to this place. Take it easy or it might happen again." There may be a reason for "casket bearers" In several communities where we have newspapers, the funeral directors call pallbearers, "casket bearers," instead. Some of the reason may be in situations like the one Roy Owen, who operated Owen's Mens Wear, where Russell Holmes has his store today, found himself in years ago. A woman came by his store at 10:00 a.m. one morning, very insistent on getting a new suit for her son. After a quick but thorough search was made, Owen said, the lady decided on a dark suit which needed just a few alterations. "We'll have to have the suit by 12:30 today," the customer said. "I don't know if we can have it that quick," Owen said. "We usually take a day for alterations. "We won't need the suit after today," the lady said, explaining, "you see, my brother died and the boy is going to be a ball bearing in his funeral. We want him to look real nice." Or it may have been because of this one Owen told me that a funeral director friend of his told him about another similar situation. They were having a funeral in the southern end of the county one day. One of the young men who was to take part in the final rites started getting nervous on the morning of the services. To calm his nerves, he started nipping. It helped so much that he kept it up. By 30 minutes to time to leave for the funeral, he was down on the ground, dog drunk. His mother saw his condition and immediately started scolding him. "Look at you, Odell. You're done drunker'n a haint, and you know you're supposed to be a polar bear in your uncle's funeral!" The experts see it our way, this time It's been just about 10 years ago, as well as I remember it, when the old Spindletop Research Center came out with its devastating population projections, which showed that Adair County would be down to a population of about 7,500 by 2020. Now a new population study has been published which predicts that the present population for the Lake Cumberland Area Development District will more than double by 2020. At that rate, our population will be 30,000 by 2020, four times what the earlier report predicted. The latest projection showed population growing faster here in this region than any other regions save for the Pennyrile and the coal-boom country in the Big Sandy area. What a difference 10 years makes in the planning business! (Or: No wonder Spindletop Research Center is no longer in operation!) Joe Taylor: a man for Columbia I made the mistake of asking Joe Taylor, Jr., a man known as a sports enthusiast, about supporting Lindsey Wilson basketball now that the team is number 12 nationally. "I'm there every time they play," he said, and pulled out a home game season ticket to prove it. Joe Taylor, Jr., is a Columbia City Councilman and a proponent of all that is local. He works at Lerman's during the day, but when a local sports team goes into action, he's usually there in the evenings. "I'm for everything that helps Columbia," he said. "Im for the factories, the radio station, the paper. And I've always supported Lindsey Wilson. We need that college here. And the ball team is much better than the support we have been giving them." Taylor is a personal friend of many of the Lindsey players. And he speaks highly of the coach, Dave Farrar. It will be some time befor the Blue Raiders are back in Columbia for the local fans to demonstrate support. They played in the Chattanooga State Invitational Tournament last week against Dalton State College: Mike Murrell, our sports -editor, went along on the trip. The next time Lindsey will play before a local crowd is January 14, when they meet Volunteer State College of Gallatin, Tennessee. This story was posted on 2020-10-11 14:56:35
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