Stories from the Heart

By Pink Lacey

Meet Mae Lee Morgan, who was born on a plantation called Dr. Morgan Plantation. Willie Lee Morgan introduced Mae Lee, his niece, to Sugar Ray Jackson, who is from Memphis Tennessee. Mae Lee thought that Sugar Ray is her knight in shining armor to rescue her from the cotton field of Natchez, Mississippi. Sugar Ray takes her to different juke joints, trying to make her a blues singer. She soon finds out that everything that shines is not gold. Sugar Ray Jackson is a black sheep in wolf’s clothing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781984561961

Pink Lacey

Josephine Williams Fort - Pink Lacey i was born and raised in Adams County, Natchez, Mississipi. I went to Prince Street School, Northside Elementary School, Anchorage Jr. High School, Sadie V. Thompson High School. My mommy was named Mable Williams and my daddy was names Eddie Williams. My two sisters were name Gloria Williams and Theresa Williams. My brother was name Eddie Williams. I have three grown children, Melissa Fort, Yolanda Fort and Michael Anthony Fort. I have 15 grandkids. I love to cook, play tennis, go swimming, go taravelling to different places, exercise, painting, drawing and writing short stories./

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Copyright © 2019 by Pink Lacey.

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CONTENTS

Four Peanut Butter Sandwiches on a Train

Four Peanut Butter Sandwiches On A Train

Martha Postlethwaite And Her 100 Cats

Blue Bell, the Calf Becomes a Cow Deer

There are four stories included in this envelope:

(1.) Four Peanut Butter Sandwiches on a Train Part I and II.

(2.) Miss Postlethwaite and Her 100 Cats.

(3.) Blue Bell, the Calf Becomes a Cow Deer.

FOUR PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES ON A TRAIN

PART I

The day was warm and moist. There was different aroma of smells in the air. The birds were singing bird songs. And, there was laughter in the air. It was June 15, 1888. There was a small wedding going on. There were relatives and friends at this small wedding.

The bride was dressed elegantly in a white, long, lace silk dress with rose embroidery styled in the dress. The groom was tall, dark, and handsome. He was dressed in a white suit and a white hat. The preacher was acting nervous and uptight. He acted like he was the one getting married. The couple acted like they were ashamed to kiss each other. The people at the wedding started to laugh as they both jumped over the broom. The couple met at a church picnic and courted about a year before they got married. This was the wedding of Joseph Jackson and Mattie Thelma Green.

The wedding was at Aunt Helen’s house; Mattie Thelma was her niece. The three-bedroom shotgun house could only hold a certain number of people. So, a table and some chairs had to be borrowed to be placed in Aunt Helen’s medium-sized backyard. Aunt Helen bakes a four-layer white cake. There was ice tea, plenty of food, and alcoholic drinks. Somebody got up and played the harmonica. The groom and bride got up and danced. Preacher Green finally got a chance to dance with the bride.

The bride was his niece. Aunt Helen walks up to the preacher and say, Brother Green, Don’t you take another drink or we are going to have to haul you right out of here! Brother Willie Green turned around and said, Don’t worry about me, just worry about your niece that just got married. Everybody burst out and start laughing. After the wedding party was over with Joseph Jackson and Mattie Thelma, some folks stayed over and helped Aunt Helen to clean up her backyard and her house.

After everything was cleaned up, Joseph and Mattie Thelma Jackson walked to their small shotgun house on 807 Eight Avenue, it was a block from her Aunt Helen’s house. Joseph picks her up and takes her over the threshold in her long white dress. Joseph was a railroad worker and Thelma worked for some rich white folks as a house maid. They would often go to the Opera House, where actors and actresses sing and perform plays. Also, they went to parties, fairs, and to the circus. And, they went to New Orleans, Louisiana several times.

They were a happy married couple at first. In June 1889, Mattie Thelma became pregnant. Then, it was March 1, 1890 as Joseph Jackson looks out of the window pane at 807 Eight Avenue. It was raining very hard, thundering very loud, and the lightning was very sharp. As a clap of thunder roared across the sky near the small house, Joseph Jackson jumps away from the window into the middle of the living room, shaking like a leaf on a tree. He hears the Midwife hollers out at his wife in the next room telling her to push hard and breathe out hard. His wife was giving birth to a baby boy.

Everything went silent a few seconds and all of a sudden, Joseph hears the cry of a baby screaming to the top of its voice. As the Midwife finishes up with birthing and cleaning the baby up, the Midwife finally calls Joseph Jackson into the bedroom. The baby boy had wavy dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and very fair skin. The baby boy looked like a little white baby. Mattie Thelma said, The baby boy takes color after me and my Aunt Helen, high yellow, as she tells the Midwife.

Joseph Jackson tells the Midwife that he is going to name the baby, Sugar Ray Jackson, after his daddy. The Midwife wrote his date of birth and his name in the Family Bible and on a piece of paper. It rained three days and three nights, and suddenly, it stopped. The couple really loved their new baby. Aunt Helen was very fond of Sugar Ray Jackson. The couple would bring the baby to see Aunt Helen every Sunday evening.

When Sugar Ray Jackson turned four years old, the couple start having money problems. Joseph Jackson start gambling, drinking, and doing other things with his money. He stopped paying the rent for three months. The Landlord told him if he don’t pay the back rent, he was going to throw his clothes, furniture and other things on the sidewalk. At first, he caught up with the rent. Eventually, he got behind again owing the Landlord three months’ rent. So, the Landlord threw his clothes, furniture, and other belongings out on the sidewalk.

The couple moved into a boarding house and took their son with them. Then, they started moving from one boarding house to another boarding house because he wouldn’t pay the rent. One night, he came back from the local pub and he was stone drunk, and he start accusing Mattie Thelma of going with a man named, Peter. She spoke up and said, I am sick and tired of you accusing me of that man, Peter. He’s just our neighbor. Also, I am tired of moving from place to place like gypsies on the run.

They argued half of the night. They were always arguing about money. So, one night when Sugar Ray Jackson turned five years old, Joseph Jackson came home that night and told Mattie Thelma that he was leaving her. Mattie Thelma asked him, Why are you leaving? Joseph Jackson said, "I am leaving because we don’t seem to be getting along anymore. We’re always arguing about money and the rent being paid.