From the files of Frank Clyburn Clyburn Family News Vol. 03 St. Patrick's Day/Easter 1998 March 29, 1998

Hi everybody, I'm starting to work on this newsletter on St. Patrick's Day, so I'll say a little about him. Also as this is the Easter edition I'll talk a little about Easter. In this edition I'll continue with Aunt Fae McBain's recollection's of Grandma and Grandpa Clyburn with her remembrances of her mother Narcy Hulda (Parks) Clyburn. Enjoy!

St. Patrick was born around 385 A.D. in Britain. He was kidnaped by Irish pirates and taken to Ireland. He was a slave for six years and turned to religion for help. He ran away to France and studied to become a priest and then returned to Britain. He dreamed that the Irish people were asking him to "come hither and walk among us."

He became a bishop and around 432 A.D. he was sent to Ireland. He died on March 17, 461.

St. Patrick used the shamrock to teach the idea of the Holy Trinity. He taught that the three leaves stood for the Father, the son and the Holy Ghost, but yet was one plant.

The following are copies of the original newspaper articles

about the deaths of Grandpa and Grandma (Stephen Franklin and Narcy Hulda Clyburn) two oldest sons. (There was an older child that died in Texan real young (Stephen Franklin). If you don't already have a copy of these I thought you would like to have them for your family albums and / or family information.

(Above photo is of Lee and Bud Clyburn 1903)

(Both buried in Clyburn Family Plot in Evergreen Cemetery in Yreka, CA.)

She says, "Mr. Forsythe! Mr. Forsythe! I'm chilly! I think I need a blanket!"

He says, "Miss Schmitt, how'd you like to pretend you're Mrs. Forsythe for a little while?"

She say, "Oh, I'd like that!"

He says, "Then get your own damn blanket!"

Narcy Hulda Parks was born to Martha Francis (Green) Parks and Thomas Lodgus Dennis Parks (TLD) on 1/3/1879 somewhere in Jackson Co., Tennessee. Her father Thomas Lodgus Parks was born on Sept. 2, 1848 in Franklin Co. Tennessee. He and his wife were married at Lynchburg Tennessee on Feb. 2, 1857. (He died at the age of 82, on July 17, 1931 at Henrietta, Clay Co. TX and she died at the age of 96 on Nov. 28, 1953 at Joshua, Johnson Co. TX. Both are buried at Haskel, TX.) The Family Album has a Tin Type Picture of Martha Parks' parents, Martha Francis Green (born 20 Feb, 1862 at Raint Rock, Jackson Co. AL) and her husband, who lived on a plantation in Tennessee during the Civil War (I don't have any more information on them.) (Martha's parents were William Grantlin Green and Rachel Fanning). Thomas and Martha Parks moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1882.

They had 14 children. The first two children died at birth, they were twins. Sid, Ann, Luci, Daisy Bird, Macky Racil, Netty and Huiey all lived from one to three years and died with various ailments. The other six children grew to be adults. Narcy was the eldest of these. The others were: Liza, Ona, William Hamilton, Maggie and Thomas Franklin. Liza Parks married Frank Oman and they had four boys - Little Frank; Dennis; L.D.; and Roy Lee. Ona Parks married J.D. Fuller, a minister. They had one son, Willie, whose picture is in the Family Album. William Hamilton (Uncle Hamp) married a lady by the name of Emma. They had 6 children - twin girls named Pauline and Geraldine , Oscar, Mary, Arthur and Lulu..

Uncle Hamp's son Arthur and his daughter Mary and their families came to see us from time to time at Lime Gulch on the Klamath River. They lived in Long Beach, CA for a long time. Some of their children may still live around there. Maggie Parks married Ralph Klunkert a dairy farmer. They married and lived in Austin, Texas. After they were first married they survived a bad wind-storm. After the storm was over they only had their cows and a piano that the storm left in a field with one leg broken off! They later had two daughters, Nellie Bell and Martha Francis. Maggie's daughter Nellie Bell married Jack Andrewartha and her other daughter Martha Frances married Frank Green. Thomas Franklin Parks married a lady by the name of Noema and they had two daughters - Inez and Margaret. That is all I can say about Mom's (Narcy Hulda) relatives.

-- Narcy Fae (Cl;yburn) McBain

1. Fae - Thomas and Martha (my grandparents) were farmers and I met them one time in 1926 in Haskell, Texas. Pictures in the Family Album.

2. Frank - I remember Grandma telling me about traveling from Tennessee to Texas in a covered wagon when she was a little girl.

Easter

1. An annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. --Websters

I recently have thoughts about what Easter is really about. And the miracles that this reality have brought to my life.... --Frank

Well what is happening in your lives? If you'd care to send an article to the Clyburn Family News I'd be happy to print it - as long as it is in good taste, of course.

Recently I've been to the Dr. and found that my blood pressure was 160 over 120. He gave me some medicine and some tests. The results came back and now the pressure is down somewhat. Id did find some good news - liver is fine, kidneys are fine, heart is fine, and I am loaded with good cholesterol and almost none of the bad cholesterol. Apparently I'm one of those people who doesn't make the bad stuff. The Dr. said that it was a gift that my parents have given me. (I think that may be a Clyburn trait.) So Burger King here I come!! Ha ha.