Contributed by Charles McGough



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I have a lot of Union Parish memories, since I still live in Union Parish, 
at Spencer of the southeast corner of the Parish.
What I am remembering is my grandfathers place at Shiloh. My Grandfather and 
grandmother, Minor and Mittie Reagan, lived about a quarter mile east of the 
Shiloh Church toward Farmerville. I remember the Allbritton store very well. 
There was a family of Graftons that lived between grandfather's house and the 
church. I can't remember their names. When I stayed with them in the summers 
mobile grocery store, in a truck,  that stopped by once a week. Grandmother 
had a sister Lyda Moore (her husband was Joe Moore) that lived a couple of 
miles northwest of Shiloh. I remember one summer my uncle Marvin Reagan and 
I real excited because uncle Joe and aunt Lyda were having a pond built.
I also remember riding in the back of granddad's old pick-up truck to Bernice. 
We would always go to the drug store and get a fountain Coke.
Wash days, boiling clothes in the cast iron wash pot, with a wood fire. 
Scrubbing them on a rub board, rinsing in three washtubs and hanging them out 
to dry. The next day was ironing day. Heating the cast iron irons on the wood 
stove. 
On the way home from Shiloh we would stop to visit with either my dad's uncle 
Will Hudson's or dad's sister Hazel Pace.

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