tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post4158960227327749916..comments2024-03-21T07:58:02.168-05:00Comments on Amateur Mormon Historian: Gibbs and Berry Return: The legend lives onBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-3933821412194931862012-04-02T17:30:18.504-05:002012-04-02T17:30:18.504-05:00Darrell, Thanks for stopping by and saying hello. ...Darrell, Thanks for stopping by and saying hello. As you can tell, you were not the only one told they would be (or in your case would have been) opening up Cane Creek again. I'm sure it is just a matter of people just had no idea. The missionaries who did find a place to rent in Hohenwald in 1947, actually were kicked out after a month because the land lady found out they were Mormon. <br /><br />I'd like to hear more about your mission. Did you serve anywhere else in Tennessee? You can email me at bruce_crow@yahoo.comBrucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-9549401551948645402012-04-02T16:52:32.407-05:002012-04-02T16:52:32.407-05:00I was a missionary to the East Central States MIss...I was a missionary to the East Central States MIssion. In 1956 they tried to place me and my companion in Hohenwald, but we could not find any place to live.We went to another town. We were told that there had not been missionaries there since the killing of Gibbs and Berry. Where that information came from , I do not know.Darrellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-82128768395236494462011-01-04T09:49:58.495-06:002011-01-04T09:49:58.495-06:00Logan,
That would be wonderful. Have you ever hear...Logan,<br />That would be wonderful. Have you ever heard about this story before, perhaps discussed in family circles?Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-31228924681759344262011-01-03T18:19:03.072-06:002011-01-03T18:19:03.072-06:00My name is Logan Thomas Berry, and Alfred O. Berry...My name is Logan Thomas Berry, and Alfred O. Berry is my grandfather. I'll have to ask him about it the next time I talk to him.Logan & Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655801721289963263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-16575673754931355042009-04-04T12:06:00.000-05:002009-04-04T12:06:00.000-05:00My own ward here in rural Tennessee recently lost ...My own ward here in rural Tennessee recently lost our assigned set of missionaries. Is our area closed to missionary work? And when we get a new set of missionaries months or years in the future, will our area be "re-opened?"<BR/><BR/>Related to that, there were areas in my mission in Hong Kong where we were not allowed to go (crime or visa issues). But it was never written instruction. It was announced during mission conferences. <BR/>If I were an historian digging for proof of that restriction, I doubt I will ever find that instruction written down in an official mission publication. But perhaps I might in a letter I wrote home or in my journal.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-80070776617222055472009-04-02T19:27:00.000-05:002009-04-02T19:27:00.000-05:00Another question to consider might be what it mean...Another question to consider might be what it means in Tennessee when an area is "closed." In France, where we were spread so thin, an area was "closed" if there weren't missionaries living there -- but when there was some need to minister to a contact in a "closed" city, elders were sent from the nearest point. <BR/><BR/>But in rural Tennessee where elders tracted and ministered over wide areas without being assigned to a single city the way we were in France, what would it mean for Cane Creek to be "closed"? A formal ban would have had to be publicized to all missionaries assigned anywhere in that area at any time, which means that such a ban would be prominent in the records; that it is NOT suggests that there was no such ban. And if elders could come and go as the spirit dictated, or as they were called upon by, say, the Talleys or others right there, then why in the world would there ever have been a formal "opening" of Cane Creek, especially one that called for extra-mission activity or the presence of any mission president?<BR/><BR/>That's a long, convoluted way of saying that I doubt that Cane Creek was ever "closed" beyond the immediate aftermath of the massacre. There may have been times when elders didn't pass through for long periods, just as there were places in France that didn't have a regular and constant missionary presence, but the "opening" of such an area doesn't require anything more than a "hey, let's tract in that direction this week."<BR/><BR/>I applaud your hunting for any possible support for the legend. I'm not surprised that you're having trouble finding support, though.Ardis Parshallhttp://www.keepapitchinin.orgnoreply@blogger.com