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LISTON BARNABUS COTHRAN
by
Edgar L. Cothran

LISTON BARNABUS COTHRAN - born 6 Aug 1908 - died 20 May 1943 - son of
ANDREW BARNABUS COTHRAN and GENEVA (NEVA) EADDY.
Married REGINA BRITT - born 15 Mar 1917 - daughter of JAMES (JIMMY) BRITT
and LOUISA VIRGINIA (LULA) BARNES.
Three children - ANDREW PEARLIS COTHRAN; GENEVA LOU COTHRAN and EDGAR
LISTON COTHRAN.

Father was born near Hemmingway, South Carolina. His mother GENEVA
"NEVA" (EADDY) COTHRAN died when he was a small child and he was raised
by his grandparents, the EADDYS. He attended some college and became a
draftsman. He spent two years in the U.S. Army, stationed in Hawaii.
There is a plaque at Pearl Harbor listing his name as part of the group
that built some of the buildings on the base. After his stint in the
army he came home to find that the Great Depression had occurred and
everyone was out of work. He and his younger brother, James, joined the
thousands of other young Americans and rode the rails around the country,
looking for work. My uncle James COTHRAN told me stories about their hobo
days, but that is another story for another time. They got off of a
train in Lumberton, North Carolina and were walking along highway 74,
where they were picked up by Kinchen BARNES (the brother-in-law of JIMMY
BRITT), who was coming back from town. My great-uncle Kinchen BARNES
always told me that he was responsible for my existence because he was
the one that brought my father to the area where he met my mother. He
said that he noticed right away that the two young men were strangers
because of the way they spoke. And he knew that they were drifters but
was impressed by their good manners, clean clothes and clean-cut
appearance. He offered to take them home to his farm and aunt Fanny fed
them and they stayed the night. They ended up staying the rest of the
year, working on my great-uncle's farm, attending Long Branch Baptist
Church, (they were raised Methodist by the EADDYS), and courting the
local girls. They eventually rented their own farm and they both married
daughters of JIMMY and LULA BRITT (LISTON to REGINA and James to Cleo).
After America entered the war in 1941, my father moved the family to
Spring Lake, Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina and worked on the Army Base
as a Draftsman. He died of stomach cancer in the Veterans Hospital, in
Fayetteville, North Carolina, in May of 1943. He was 33 years old and I
was 25 months old when he died. I don't remember my father but my
grandparents, great-uncle Kinchen and others in the family and the Long
Branch community told me so much about him that I feel as if I knew him
well. He was held in high esteem by everyone that knew him. I was told
that he was very intelligent and educated. After my father died, my
brother Andrew went to live with our father's brother, JAMES IRA COTHRAN
and my sister GENEVA LOU COTHRAN and I lived with and were raised by our
maternal grandparents, JIMMY and LULA BRITT.

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