The spirit of the lines “let me live in a house by the side of the road, and be a friend to man” was beautifully expressed by a group of citizens in Pleasant Grove township recently when they went to the aid of Mr. J. Claude Coates, and pulled his crop of fodder at a time when sickness in his family prevented him from attending to it himself. The little 7-year-old daughter of Mr. Coates has tumor of the brain and has been critically ill for several weeks. She has recently lost her eyesight and is not expected to live but a short time. Out of the goodness of their hearts and with a deep sympathy for a neighbor in trouble, these Pleasant Grove folks rendered what service they could in helping to house Mr. Coates’ crop. Someone took a snapshot of the group, and we were thus enabled to reproduce it as shown above.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, September 24, 1926
To see the photograph of his friends and neighbors, go to: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073982/1926-09-24/ed-1/seq-1/
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