As Long as You Remember

Flavius B. Hall, Jr.

As Long As You Remember is a heart-warming story of a family event that happened on the Hall farm located on the Whittyfield area of Jones County, a few miles from Pollocksville, North Carolina. The story, witnessed and passed down by family members for decades, chronicles the life of Katie Foy Hall, her marriage to Henry Hall, and the tragedy that occurred on a hot July day in 1920, changing the family forever.

This narrative of family love revolves around everyday life on a farm in the early years of the twentieth century: milking cows, building tobacco barns, preparing meals on a wood burning stove, keeping milk cold in a well, and “chopping cotton.”

Hazel Hall Harker painted the beautiful cover of the book featuring the Hall farm. Now eighty-nine she vividly remembers her wonderful childhood years on the farm but sadly recalls the sequence of the events that took place described in the story. Photographs of all the family members and replicas of special documents help tell this poignant and caring story.

The beautiful Christian hymn, “Sweeping Thru the Gate” sung by Elvira Hall, Hazel’s mother, echoes throughout the story as the family’s Christian faith is challenged. The author’s title, As Long As You Remember, emphasizes the importance of family heritage with the words repeating “As long as you remember somebody, they are not gone.”

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