A family friend Thomas Ivey of Jacikson, Mississippi shared this really interesting URL about Stafford Springs and its famous mineral water. The article brings back a lot of deja vu. I tell people I come from long generations because my mother was good friends with a Confederate officer and other Confederate soldiers of different ranks. She knew Capt. Edward Stafford, who recognized the healing qualities of a nearby spring, and originated the Stafford Springs mineral water marketing and later resort. Capt. Staffords son, Dr. Tom Stafford was married to my mothers Aunt Pearl Parker. Some of my early childhood memories, living in the 8 Port Arthur, Texas years, when we would travel from Port Arthur to Meridian in the early 1940s we always had to go by way of Vossburg and visit with Poor Aunt Pearl Stafford, because she was dying with cancer.. A look at Poor Old Aunt Pearls Find a Grave memorial in the Vossburg cemetery, reveals a death date of 1967, which means Poor Aunt Pearl apparently outlived most or all of her contemporaries. Anyway, I can still remember Aunt Pearl standing in the door of that old house bidding us all farewell, ca 1940 or so. Now here comes Thomas Ivey sharing a really interesting URL about the entire history of the Stafford Springs location. I found it extremely interesting to find all of the family graves in the Find a Grave listing for the Vossburg cemetery, which I had visited many years ago, in my IBM travels. Aunt Pearls grave is listed there, and I requested transfer of management for the memorial, which was not granted. A Mr. Marshall Parker owns it, probably another Parker relative. I had an interesting experience in Vossburg, one day, including meeting some of the Stafford descendants who worked there. I was working away cleaning a typewriter in the Vossburg brand of the Bay Springs bank, when the Jasper County Sheriff came striding in the door with his gun out. Somebody had tripped the robbery alarm in the bank which went off in his car and brought him on the double. There are two things it is best not to do in a bank, from my own sad experience. 1) Dont let yourself get locked in a bank, working there when everyone leaves. 2) It really is best not to be the only stranger in a bank when the robbery alarm goes off in it. I had another interesting witness about Stafford Springs mineral water. Back in the day, when you bought gasoline, they not only checked your oil and water, and cleaned your windshield, but the heads-up gas station owners, also took the tops off of your battery and topped off the water in the old batteries of the period. They had a kit with a syringe in it for doing that. I was back in the back of the station, getting my mothers car greased when the station owner came back there and refilled his battery kit. He refilled it out of a STAFFORD SRINGS mineral water bottle!! My putting mineral water in their batteries, he was KILLING his customers batteries, much sooner than expected. Anyway, the URL for the Stafford Springs history is webpages.charter.net/hondapotamus/staffs.htm The URL for Capt. Edward Stafford Find a Grave memorial is findagrave/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16390565
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:14:58 +0000
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