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Autumn Campbell and Michael Goode to exchange vows October 22 at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church  | | Michael Goode and Autumn Campbell |
Autumn Campbell and Michael Goode to wed in October wedding Mr.
and Mrs. Jamie Hailey of Michigan City are pleased to announce the
engagement of their daughter, Autumn Campbell, to Michael Goode. The
bride-elect is the granddaughter of Cherry Thompson of Mt. Pleasant,
Marilyn Campbell of Holly Springs and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hailey of
Holly Springs. She is also the great-granddaughter of Clois Hailey, the
late Son Hailey and Nadine Thompson, the late Ralph Thompson, both of
Mt. Pleasant, and the late Mary Campbell of Holly Springs. The
groom is the son of Linda Mannon of Red Banks and Kevin Owens of Lake
Center. He is the grandson of Linda Bolden and the late James Dick
Bolden of Holly Springs. He is also the great-grandson of Harley and
Juanita Autry. The couple will exchange vows on
Friday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Mt.
Pleasant with a reception following. Family and friends are invited.
Birth announcement Macedo Javier and
Lacey Macedo are proud to introduce their first child, Nicholas
Reynoso, born Aug. 22, 2010, in New Albany. Nicholas weighed seven
pounds, seven ounces and was 19 inches long. Maternal
grandparents are Penny Boyington of Byhalia, Amy Sullivan of Byhalia
and Ronnie Sullivan of Holly Springs. Great-grandparents are Mary
Sullivan of Holly Springs, Bobby and Becky Smith of Tunnel Hill, Ga.
Paternal grandparents are Javier Silva and Dorotea Herrera.
Great-grandparents are Jose Fajardo, Paulina Rodrigues and Pedro Ace,
Ancelma Acuirre, all of Mexico.
Museuming
Lois Swaney Shipp
Museum Curator Airliewood – truly majestic  | | Airliewood |
Airliewood
is a beautiful Mississippi landmark. I was there last Saturday and it
is truly majestic. It has seen more drama and trauma than most places. It
was constructed as a Swiss chalet during the opulent 1850’s of Holly
Springs history by colorful, Will Henry Coxe, who moved here from
Georgia with his family. After building the
castle-like townhouse, they also had a farm house in the county on the
plantation in southwest Marshall County called Galena, so large it even
had a post office. William had four sons and one
daughter. The sons were all exceptionally handsome, described as
beautiful as any woman and the daughter was beautiful. As
soon as the house was completed, the War began. It wasn’t long before
Gen. U.S. Grant of the Northern Army confiscated the house for his
Union headquarters and he and Mrs. Grant moved in and Army pup tents
sprang up all over the vast yard. For past-time,
the soldiers shot all the pickets off the magnificent iron fence around
the house, which came from the foundry around the corner and down the
street. In the restoration, the fence was also restored. The
Coxe grandfather was Gov. Moultrie of South Carolina. None of the Coxe
sons lived to have children, so the only Coxe descendants came through
the daughter. They were all beautiful people, as we knew Tom Lacey,
Moultrie Lacey and their kin. In the opulent
1850’s, the house originally had marble mantles, cut glass chandeliers
and Bohemian glass windows that were imported from Europe and New
England as the house was being built. A niche was prepared in a parlor
bay window for the second Steinway square grand piano ever made. It was
brought around the ocean to New Orleans, then up the Mississippi River
and carried by horse-drawn wagon to the bay window of the house. The
house also had silver doorknobs, but the Yankee soldiers stole all but
two. It also had one of the first zinc and wood bathtubs in the state,
but the Yankees cut it up for ammunition. When my
parents, Con and Bertha Bonds, moved to Holly Springs from Waterford in
1918, they considered buying either Airliewood or maybe Colonsay
Cottage. Airliewood was for sale for $2,500 and Colonsay for $2,000.
Airliewood had had a series of owners and the last owner, Dr. W.C.
Elliott, used it for a sanatorium. My mother decided she didn’t want to
expose her family to tuberculosis, so they bought Colonsay Cottage. David
Person said his grandfather bought Airliewood and brought his bride
here, carried her over the threshold and said, “Welcome to our
honeymoon cottage.” Ben Thompson’s family bought
it and then about 1925, the mayor of the town, Charles Dean Sr. bought
it and Charles Jr. was born there. When Charles celebrated his fifth
birthday with a grand party in the back yard, complete with a magician
doing magic tricks, it was very special and I remember it fondly. He
also had a fishing well with prizes. In the
centennial year of Marshall County (1936) Airliewood and the rest of
the houses received names and Airliewood was on the first Pilgrimage,
which was in October and lasted a week. I was a little hostess in my
first hoop skirt. For those of you who live
elsewhere, the buzzards are now roosting on their rookery at
Mississippi Industrial College, like a horror movie. I can’t believe
the heritage that’s been thrown away here, instead of being preserved
for future generations.
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