Yesterdays, yesterdays, days I knew as had been
Today I'm standing in front of the home that we call the Homestead.
Our ancestors came from here.
My grandparents raised my aunts, my two uncles, and my mother right here in Franklinton, North Carolina.
This home was occupied by Freddie and Hezekiah Cook.
We're taking a moment to go back and trace our history.
So what we decided to do was take a few minutes, run through North Carolina, Franklinton, North Carolina,
and just give you a brief idea of our history and where we came from.
My sister Grace told stories about the history of this house, the family members.
They all lived here, aunts, uncles, my parents, Grace.
I had a brother and sister born in this house. They are both deceased.
I can also remember my fond memories of coming down, spending the summer with the Brody's,
someone in Gloria, Cora, and Reverend Brody. Really good times. I guess some of the best moments of my life.
On Cora, out of the sisters, is the only one that stayed home here in Franklinton.
Everyone else moved on to New York, and Uncle Francis moved to Newport News and went to work for the shipyard.
But all the sisters left and went to New York, and Uncle Albert went to, I believe, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is Boston.
So right now what we're doing is looking at Reverend James Henry Cook, which is Hezekiah's brother, Hezekiah Cook.
And right beside Reverend James Henry Cook is his wife's section, which is, I guess you would say, great aunt.
This is what we're going to do, because I heard that you don't talk too much.
Tucson Sun.
Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, once I heard that Tucson Sun was in Collins, I said, well, I'm getting over it.
Yeah, we all got over it.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you want to walk out to the bay, you can send it down for me.
I thought you were going to give me the car.
Yeah, that's good.
And I'm just good.
We used to do this as a kid on Thursdays Street in Mount Vernon.
This is a place called Zanies.
And then we used to go to a place up in Elmsford we go.
I can't think of it.
It was called Elmsford Raceway.
3rd and what?
3rd and 3rd and 2nd and 3rd.
2nd and 3rd.
This is crazy.
Okay, 12 on the dollar tie.
The one in the front.
The one in the front.
Right now the family in front of them are on the side of the Franklin thing, North Carolina train station.
It has a plaque dated 1840 and from what we were told, the color entered on one side and the whites entered on another side.
2nd and 3rd.
Okay, we're about to wrap it up.
This is our last stop.
We're standing in front of Reverend Ollie Brody and Cora Cook Brody's house.
This is where Priscilla and Gloria were raised.
This is their homestead.
This is the certificate for the opponent.
There's two of them. One is the certificate.
One is the certificate.
They see the years of difference so that they have changed.
Right, so this is your mother on Cora Cook.
Yeah, this is Madeline.
She was the first grad. She was the oldest child.
Okay, so this is dated 1929.
Yeah, and that was about six years old.
Right, and what I have here now is the Madeline Cook, which is dated 1924.
So what happened to Camden was like a junior college.
It was like a college school.
I don't know if it was a college, but that's the way they did education at that time.
It's been a blast. The tour is over with. Hope everyone enjoyed it.
We're about to back it up.
Yesterday's, yesterday's,
Days I knew as happy as sweet, sequestered days,
Golden days, golden days,
Days of mad romance and love,
Golden days.
