Plantersville Connection

Due to a game being postpon ed due to rain, Carly's team played a doubleheader last night. All games are played at the Ridgeland park which has numerous fields and it has become a gathering place. Every time we go we see many folks we know, last night was a Plantersville connection as we met Cindy Deaton Nance whose daughter was playing on another field.

Cindy, as many of you know, is the great-granddaughter of Miss Dixie Deaton who taught many of us in the first grade, and the granddaughter of Joe and Ruth Deaton and the daughter of Little Joe Deaton. Cindy and her family travel to Plantersville often as they own the Bud Deaton place east of Plantersville not far from where I lived with Raymon and mother and in front of Joe Stovall's place.

Miss Dixie's husband died young and when she began teaching at Plantersville school, she and her two boys lived with my grandparents until she moved into her house which was directly across the street from Aunt Grace. While not related to the Deatons, we have always considered them family.

Mr. Joe and Mrs. Ruth moved to the Jackson area and became involved with Magnolia Speech School and then moved to Clinton around the same time we did. Cindy and Cam graduated together from Clinton High School.

Carole took a picture of Cindy and her two children, Cole and Anna Scott, but we had a camera malfunction. I'm sure we'll see them again and probably play their team, so hope to publish a picture of Cindy and her family at a later time.