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My maternal grandmother, Rena Melana Chaney, nicknamed Lona, was born on December 7, 1880 in Monroe, North Carolina. The Journey is set in 1899, and tells the story of her traveling in a wagon train as the bride of Charles Luther Stegall to homestead in Southern Arkansas. This book evolved from my memories of that terribly cold winter in 1943 when my grandfather died. My dad worked away from home, and since my grandmother, Mammaw, was by herself, my mother decided to take us two girls and live with her for a while. I was nine years old as I sat at Mammaw's knee, my flannel night gown pulled down over my bare feet, watching firelight shadows dance in the dark as I listened to her tell about fording rivers and stopping long enough to bury folks along the way. The wagons circled at supper time, but Mammaw didn't feel any too safe as darkness deepened and the howling of wolves came from a nearby canyon rim. My grandmother told a lot on the nights we sat by the fire. I absorbed it all, and relived most of it before I fell asleep. I can still hear her say, "When Papa and me came to Arkansas on that wagon train....."
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Frances Bennett is an artist and a Christian writer. She is the mother of four with six grandchildren and one great grandchild. In 1951, Frances rode with a friend to attend a gospel meeting at the Antioch Church of Christ near Spearsville, Louisiana. She met her future husband, Billy Bennett, at the Sunday morning service. At that time, the white church building on a hill was made from lumber and the church dinners were held underneath shade trees. Billy and Frances married in June of 1952, and still live on the farm they bought in 1954. They worship on that same hill, only now, from their home they look across fields and see a red brick church. Frances writes a column for a local parish paper. The Journey was her serialized column at one time, and begins with the story of her maternal grandparents wagon train migration as newly weds in 1899 from North Carolina to homestead in Union County, Arkansas. She used childhood memories of conversations at dusky dark as a tightly rolled rag smoked to keep mosquitoes at bay, things her grandmother told, and her mother's bible records to spin the historical fiction column. It was an instant success, and through positive feedback and questions as to whether she was writing a book, the seed was planted. From this came The Journey.
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- PublisherBookstand Pub
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1589094549
- ISBN 13 9781589094543
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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