Jim Thribling ; Franklin Parish, LA.

SUBMITTED BY: by DeWanna Lindo

July 2001

Source: A birds Eye View of Crowville FHA 1976



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Jim Thribling was born in Kentucky in 1851. At the age of five, he was sold

at auction, along with his mother, aunt, and grandfather, and was moved to

Gibson, Mississippi, with the Coleman family. During the Civil War when

federal troops invaded Mississippi, Mrs. Coleman desided to visit realitives

in Louisiana; and she was accompanied by Jim and other household servants.

When they arrived in Vicksburg, the heard the news that the war was over.

Jim was eighteen years of age at this time. He and his family chose to

stay with the Colemans, who went to visit the Crows in Louisiana. Jim

Thribling attached himself to the Crow family and worked for them as long 

as they lived in the area. In later years he visited Crowville each day, riding 

a little black mule. Jim lived to be over 104 years of age.