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 (Copy)

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

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.) (Copy)

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

Promise Land (Copy)

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

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

The Landing (Copy)

909 Shepard St - Carolyn Kirth Guthrie (Copy)

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

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

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

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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 (Copy)

Barbara Dawn Guthrie, Sallie G Willis, Gretchen Guthrie, Ella Willis Larkee (Copy)

Bill Mutter painting Morehead Shirt Factory 1500 Bridges (Copy)

Bill Mutter painting van (Copy)

Carolyn Cora Barbara Janice Loretta 1946 (Copy)

Catherine Guthrie Ballou - Epitome of Banks and Promise Land (Copy)

Hannah Murrill Warren (Copy)

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

John Samuel Parker Jr. - 201 S 11th Street (Copy)

Joseph Guthrie and Caroline Lewis (Copy)

Biggest Fish Ever Caught by a Hook in Carteret County

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Geneva and Norman Guthrie (Copy)

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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 (Copy)

Barbara Dawn Guthrie at Dunes Club ca. 1945 (Copy)

Dedication by Shannon Adams

Dr. Doolittle of The Promise Land By Rodney Kemp

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Ozell Willis (Copy)

Epilogue By Sally Strollo Lumpkin

Fisherman in Paradise By Gretchen Guthrie

Jimmy Howland By Capt Wayne Willis

Jimmy Howland (Copy)

Kib Guthrie’s Store By Janice Ray Lewis Ditto

Kib Guthries Store (Copy)

Lindsey Guthrie’s Grocery By Alva Bell Guthrie Gillikin

Hattie Dee Davis ca April 1949 (Copy)

Hattie Dee Guthrie_s Store 14th _ Shepard (Copy)

Judy Guthrie Hattie Dee Davis ca 1949 (Copy)

Lindsey Guthrie ca 1950s (Copy)

Lindsey Maybelle Willis Guthrie (Copy)

Margaret Willis Guthrie By Phyllis O’Boyle Gentry

Margaret Louise Willis Guthrie - 2nd Grade 1924-25 (Copy)

Margaret Willis Guthrie and Barbara Ann (Copy)

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 (Copy)

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 (Copy)

Beth Mayo Garner circa 1945 (Copy)

Captain Josephus Willis, Sr. aka Capt. Seef (Copy)