Promise land Stories vol. I

Preface by Rodney Kemp

Ola Guthrie

Plea for the Yaupon

Promise Land – History of the Migration as written by Alida Willis during the 1970’s

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Promise Land Christmas Memories

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The Queen and King of Hearts

Tom Thomas Guthrie not Tom Thomas Moore

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You Know in Your Heart if You Are a Promise Lander by Janice Ray Lewis Ditto

Boundaries of the Promise Land By Rodney Kemp

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Kate and John Van Horn

Kathleen Eldred Home. Etta Lewis, Patsy Humphrey, Debra Rhue, Ella G. Smith, Ruby Wickizer, Madeline Austin

Left to right (oldest boy) Leroy Guthrie (no middle name), (seated) Vernon Cranston Guthrie, (oldest and only girl) Janett Guthrie Guthrie (married Kib Guthrie Jr.)

Morehead City Garment Co (Shirt Factory) - 1500 Bridges Street

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Rebekkah Lodge groundbreaking - 1-Priscilla Guthrie Gould, 2-Lou Snooks, 4-Rachel Steed, 7-Etta Lewis (shovel), 8-Lucille Mizelle, 9-George Dill

The Landing (13th) - Capt Gibb Willis and Manley Styron

The Landing

909 Shepard St - Carolyn Kirth Guthrie

1202 Shepard St - c 1960_s. White house behind tree

1208 Shackleford St - Janice Edwards and Charles, Debbie Guthrie - circa 1955

1301 Evans St - Louis Guthrie, David Guthrie, Forest Guthrie c. 1960

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Back left - Hattie Dee Davis Strollo, Peggy Hoggard, Mary G. Austin, Jeanine Willis, sitting - Janice Ray Lewis Ditto, Carolyn Guthrie Giamo

Barbara Dawn Guthrie, Sallie G Willis, Gretchen Guthrie, Ella Willis Larkee

Bill Mutter painting Morehead Shirt Factory 1500 Bridges

Bill Mutter painting van

Carolyn Cora Barbara Janice Loretta 1946

Catherine Guthrie Ballou - Epitome of Banks and Promise Land

Hannah Murrill Warren

Hattie Dee Davis, Janice Ray Lewis, Mary Laura Austin, Carolyn Oglesby, and Judy Guthrie

John Samuel Parker Jr. - 201 S 11th Street

Joseph Guthrie and Caroline Lewis

Biggest Fish Ever Caught by a Hook in Carteret County

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Geneva and Norman Guthrie

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The Red Oar Crew by Clifton Gutherie

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Six for the Sea, The Crissie Wright Time by Clifton Guthrie

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The Saplings By Barbara Dawn Guthrie Humphreys

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Barbara Dawn Guthrie ca. 1945

Barbara Dawn Guthrie at Dunes Club ca. 1945

Dedication by Shannon Adams

Dr. Doolittle of The Promise Land By Rodney Kemp

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Ozell Willis

Epilogue By Sally Strollo Lumpkin

Fisherman in Paradise By Gretchen Guthrie

Jimmy Howland By Capt Wayne Willis

Jimmy Howland

Kib Guthrie’s Store By Janice Ray Lewis Ditto

Kib Guthries Store

Lindsey Guthrie’s Grocery By Alva Bell Guthrie Gillikin

Hattie Dee Davis ca April 1949

Hattie Dee Guthrie_s Store 14th _ Shepard

Judy Guthrie Hattie Dee Davis ca 1949

Lindsey Guthrie ca 1950s

Lindsey Maybelle Willis Guthrie

Margaret Willis Guthrie By Phyllis O’Boyle Gentry

Margaret Louise Willis Guthrie - 2nd Grade 1924-25

Margaret Willis Guthrie and Barbara Ann

Mr. Russell Willis – Kib’s Store Truck Driver By Janice Ray Lewis Ditto

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My Grandmother from Promise Land By Beth Garner

Willis Family

L-R: Earl Willis, Norma Willis Mary Willis Johnny Oechslie Betsy Oechslie Virginia Guthrie

Willis, Olive Willis Oechslie, Bud Mayo, Helen Willis Mayo, Jeanne Willis, Lottie Willis

Wertheim, Theodore Wertheim, Fred Willis, Theodora Wertheim, Lula Willis Willis, Don Willis

Dog - Teddy

L-R: Nettie Willis Parker (Beth’s great aunt) & Lula Willis Willis (Beth’s grandmother) circa late 40’s

Beth Mayo Garner circa 1945

Captain Josephus Willis, Sr. aka Capt. Seef