I was able to get a couple of stories about Lucy Johnson Breedlove to share!
These stories came from Thelma Dixon, Lucy’s granddaughter. The photos are courtesy of Brenda Hollis, also Lucy’s granddaughter.
Lucy love Cockscomb and had many planted outside of her window. She loved to sit and admire them. One day when she was doing just that she saw one suddenly go down. And then another went down, just fell down dead. It turned out her son Garland, who was about 7 years old at the time, was shooting at them with a sling-shot he had made and was using those Cockscomb as targets! Garland ended up murdering three of them. Needless to say, he was in trouble. He ended up having to stay inside without play and do housework for week. And the sling-shot ended up as kindling for the cook stove. Of course, he made more in the future. I bet he never used the Cockscomb as targets again!
Another story was when Lucy gave a deer a heart attack. The dogs had been out having fun chasing a deer around. The deer came to a stop in the yard, just exhausted. Lucy was out on the porch sweeping up and when the deer stopped she pointed the broom at it and said “bang!”. The deer dropped to the ground dead!
I can’t wait to share more stories about Lucy and her family!
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