Humansville, Missouri Was Founded By an Insectoid Alien
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Paging Dr. Briar Lee
Can you confirm or deny.
Any comments or accusations?
Can you confirm or deny.
Any comments or accusations?
Neyahh! You just know those eyes glowed in the dark.
According to a major BM pipe shop in Springfield, Missouri. So, Van, put that in your pipe and smoke it, LOL.www.facebook.com
“Popcorn Mary” Owens found that photo of Judge James G Human while researching the archives of the State of Missouri. That was of the founder of Humansville and the Humansville Christian Church and first Humansville School and father of the head of the 8th Missouri State Militia Black Horse Cavalry, when Judge Human was in the General Assembly.
My mother called me at college with sinister glee.
She said I guess all the folks who claim to be descended from Judge Human, aren’t going to be so proud of it now.
Adopted son, of Cherokee and free African ancestry, he fathered over a dozen children by three beautiful young wives and saved Humansville from Confederate attack in the Battle of Humansville.
He was in his sixties.
He had two more wives and three or four children left to go.
Popcorn Mary, lived to be 105 years old.
Mary Ann “Popcorn Mary” Culler Owens (1902-2008) -...
OBIT:MARY ANN POPCORN MARY OWENS (July 21, 1902 - February 4, 2008) Mary Ann Owens, 105, Humansville, died Monday, February 4, 2008 in Northwood Hills Care Center, Humansville. The daughter of Marion R. and Martha E. (Dabney) Culler, she was born July 21, 1902 at Edina, Missouri. Mary...
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She was buried while the pipes played The Campbells are Coming.
Not far, from the hallowed grave of Coxswain Urban Herschel Marlow who died at the helm of the battleship USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Urban Herschel Marlow (1915-1941) - Find a Grave...
Local man among fatalities of Pearl Harbor Attack. Dec. 7 2016 marked the 75th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack which took place on a Sunday morning of 1941. The Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the American Army and Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack came by complete...
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Humansville is also the birthplace of Edgar “Uncle Joe” Buchanan and playwright Zoe Akins (Gentleman Prefer Blondes-The Greeks Have a Name For It).
The truth about Humansville is wilder than all the legends.
But in my retirement I should be able to take over from Popcorn Mary and further the noble cause just a wee little bit further.
Seriously a minute.
What is, the noble cause?
Non ministrari, sed ministrare
Or Matthew 25:40
It’s all the same noble sentiment, you know?
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All I can say is, I can only imagine how much more teasing I'd have received in school has my name been Coxswain.
The Christian Church, recognizes no saints, priests, bishops, cardinals, or popes.
They hold to no dogmas, doctrines or creeds, save only the words of the Master.
That man was a truly righteous disciple.
It was him that took his rifle during the Battle of Humansville and shot the Confederate leader dead in 1862, when he was 64 years old.
Then ordered his body prepared for burial and sent it back to Stockton under guard.
He’d have eaten Chuck Norris for breakfast.
And Pop Corn Mary, found his grave.
Judge James Gilliam Human (1798-1875) - Find a...
Founder of Humansville, Missouri and an early Polk County judge and legislator. He served as Captain Levi Boone's First Lieutenant in the Black Hawk War and briefly as a Private in the 8th Missouri State Militia Cavalry during the Civil War in the company that would later be commanded by his...
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Young Urban Herschel Marlow a friend of my father’s, and fellow deacon in the Christian Church.
The term Coxswain is the rank he earned by recommendation of Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh, who was awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for devotion to duty and courage while serving as commanding officer of USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Captain does not steer the ship.
He gives orders to the Coxswain.
There were good reasons every capital ship of the United States Navy on December 7, 1941 had a good, well raised Christian boy at the helm.
He will, die on his station, as a last resort.
He cannot be bought, bribed, compromised (except perhaps by women) and no matter what he’s ordered to do he will use his independent judgement, and he cannot be ordered to do evil, he will refuse that always.
Because he will never dishonor his mother, nor his Master.
This is according to our traditions, dating back to when Rome could conquer all Britain except our ancestors in Scotland.
The Romans then used Celtic mercenaries to steer every warship, and be at the right hand of all generals in battle.
That way if the captain or the general were wounded, killed, ran away or were traitors or cowards, there was still a good Christian boy in command.
Urban Hershel Marlow’s mother and sister survived him by many decades.
I would (along with other deacons) serve them communion on the same plates their son and brother used.
And each December 7, I, and other deacons, would toll the church bell 26 times, lest we forget.
If you think the Christian Church is some kind of cult—-
You betcha!.
Who do you think survived from Calvary, and lived to retell the stories?
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By oral tradition our church knew he was a mixed race Cherokee and African.
Popcorn Mary was our church historian.
She was nearly eighty years old (she lived until 105) when she had one of her countless helpers drive her to Jefferson City and found that photograph.
People keep taking it down from Wikipedia.
I’ve heard all kinds of conspiracy theories that’s not Judge Human.
Whenever, I might doubt, or wonder like Thomas did, I remember that Popcorn Mary only joined our church, because no other one would take her in.
She was what some might call mentally challenged.
She sold pop corn by the community building, and her husband was a house painter.
James Joseph Clay (1930-2013) - Find a Grave...
James Joseph Clay was born August 25, 1930, in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was 3 years of age he moved to Humansville, Mo., with his two sisters and lived with his maternal grandmother until her death in 1955. He then took up residence in a house provided by his father built on family...
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He mowed lawns for his living.
He could not read or write.
And like Popcorn Mary, our church took in Jimmy Joe when no other would.
He had annoying tics and would blurt out during the sermons.
He somehow came into possession of a slide projector and he’d lend it to the church and was an expert on using it.
When he moved to the nursing home in 2008 the kind administrator allowed him to bring his projector and a box of slides.
When he died they offered the projector to the undertaker, along with the box of slides.
And when the undertaker looked at the slides, there were hundreds of color slide photos of every parade, every celebration, all the public events of Humansville for about twenty five years from the late forties through the 1972 Centennial. He’s having them copied.
Nobody knows what camera he used.
None of us can remember him taking any photographs.
But there we all are.
My father on a buckskin horse leading the parades with Urban Marlow’s mother and sister in Dr Robinson’s Cadillac convertibles as Grand Marshalls.
The stock car races.
Pop Corn Mary at her concession stand.
Earl Ball playing the fiddle.
All shot on ISO 64 Kodachrome color slide film.
And most about one stop dark, so you can push them and recover the highlights.
Who taught Jimmy Joe, the exposure triangle?
And did he use a tripod?
(She’s in her sixties, see her at Branson live)
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Priceless—-
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Some White Gilliams went to great lengths to explain away the presence of their Biracial relatives. Charles Edgar Gilliam’s Genealogical Data on the Ancestors of Richard Davenport Gilliam, 1855-1935 lists Reuben Meriwether Gilliam as “d. s. p.” “D. s. p.” is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase, descessit sine prole; died without issue. In a correspondence written by Charles Edgar Gilliam dated 23 Mar 1966 Charles states that
“Reuben M. Gilliam was reputed to be a mullato [sic] son of Reuben Meriwether Gilliam. He was not. That Free Man of Color, owner of the old Gilliam Farm Charles was the son of a slave Reuben and a Lady of the Mexican Montezuma Family to whom the three Gilliams who then owned Charles gave the 241 acres and a silver service. His son was the freeman Reuben Montezuma Gilliam that alleged mullato [sic] kinsman was dug up by amateur historians. The father slave was body-servant to Dr. James Skelton Gilliam and accompanied him on a trip to Mexico City.” Charles Edgar Gilliam, later in the same letter states, “Of course, we no doubt have many mullato [sic] kin, but it is not the custom to claim them, though when I was a boy they were talked about inter familias.”
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Those old preachers would lean low, over the pulpit, and speak in a loud whisper—
The Humansville Christian Church, founded by Judge Human, whose father abandoned his mother, Winifred Gilliam, was literate in Latin and Greek and learned in the law, and sired over a dozen children by three wives,
He learned Latin and Greek and law, somewhere.
About that time, the Sally Mountain singers (or some other equally worthy professional group) would come on stage and belt it out!
Jimmy Joe would holler Aaaayyyymeeen while Darlene looked at him, like he was a piece of candy.
Darlene, had to quit school, when she got old enough, to have to take showers with the other girls.
Judge James Gilliam Human, was born a perfect Child of God, as the rest of us are.
He was taught, to be a Disciple.
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I'm confused by your use of the preface "Adopted son" ... did you mean adopted by the people of Humansville or adopted by his parents. The other geneology doesn't indicate he was adopted at all.Priceless—-
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Some White Gilliams went to great lengths to explain away the presence of their Biracial relatives. Charles Edgar Gilliam’s Genealogical Data on the Ancestors of Richard Davenport Gilliam, 1855-1935 lists Reuben Meriwether Gilliam as “d. s. p.” “D. s. p.” is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase, descessit sine prole; died without issue. In a correspondence written by Charles Edgar Gilliam dated 23 Mar 1966 Charles states that
“Reuben M. Gilliam was reputed to be a mullato [sic] son of Reuben Meriwether Gilliam. He was not. That Free Man of Color, owner of the old Gilliam Farm Charles was the son of a slave Reuben and a Lady of the Mexican Montezuma Family to whom the three Gilliams who then owned Charles gave the 241 acres and a silver service. His son was the freeman Reuben Montezuma Gilliam that alleged mullato [sic] kinsman was dug up by amateur historians. The father slave was body-servant to Dr. James Skelton Gilliam and accompanied him on a trip to Mexico City.” Charles Edgar Gilliam, later in the same letter states, “Of course, we no doubt have many mullato [sic] kin, but it is not the custom to claim them, though when I was a boy they were talked about inter familias.”
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Those old preachers would lean low, over the pulpit, and speak in a loud whisper—
The Humansville Christian Church, founded by Judge Human, whose father abandoned his mother, Winifred Gilliam, was literate in Latin and Greek and learned in the law, and sired over a dozen children by three wives,
He learned Latin and Greek and law, somewhere.
About that time, the Sally Mountain singers (or some other equally worthy professional group) would come on stage and belt it out!
Jimmy Joe would holler Aaaayyyymeeen while Darlene looked at him, like he was a piece of candy.
Darlene, had to quit school, when she got old enough, to have to take showers with the other girls.
Judge James Gilliam Human, was born a perfect Child of God, as the rest of us are.
He was taught, to be a Disciple.
Its a fascinating history and a great part of American history.
Because we took in Pop Corn Mary, and Jimmy Joe, and Darlene, and because our mothers looked kind of like movie stars, and because when other kids made fun of somebody less fortunate we’d publicly stand up in front of their target, and because we were always well dressed, polite, never swore (in public) and lived like Christ perched over our shoulders watching every breath, we took quite a ration of sxxt about being Campbellites.
And we were taught to always just smile.
One Baptist boy asked me once, is it true your ancestors stood, at the foot of the Cross?
And I replied my adopted ancestors were off hiding somewhere while the women stood there, among the blood, the gore, amid the wild, angry mob.
And, we aren’t about to let it happen again, if we can prevent it.
I don’t think he understood, you know?.
Sing one, Sally Mountain singers.
Who told the Greeks, the story?
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O.K. so you meant 'ChrIstian as in adopted heir ... wow, that was long way around the world. Thanks.Because we took in Pop Corn Mary, and Jimmy Joe, and Darlene, and because our mothers looked kind of like movie stars, and because when other kids made fun of somebody less fortunate we’d publicly stand up in front of their target, and because we were always well dressed, polite, never swore (in public) and lived like Christ perched over our shoulders watching every breath, we took quite a ration of sxxt about being Campbellites.
And we were taught to always just smile.
One Baptist boy asked me once, is it true your ancestors stood, at the foot of the Cross?
And I replied my adopted ancestors were off hiding somewhere while the women stood there, among the blood, the gore, amid the wild, angry mob.
And, we aren’t about to let it happen again, if we can prevent it.
I don’t think he understood, you know?.
Sing one, Sally Mountain singers.
Who told the Greeks, the story?
That’s how we roll.
Always speaking in parables.
Judge Human, and me, were raised by Christian mothers, that in our cradles taught us all the parables.
Our fathers were their ornaments and providers.
His mother, and mine, filled his head with the stories about Celtic mercenaries on the right hand of Roman generals and steering Roman warships.
By the time he learned to read he already knew the Christ story by heart.
By the time he was a man, he’d read the first four Gospels, to the point where he thought, in King James. .
After all, somebody had to teach Greek, to the authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Fluency in Greek don’t just come, out of the air.
The Gospels may not have all been originally written in Greek but translated into Greek writing some years later. The four gospel writers would have been familiar with Aramaic, Latin, Greek and Hebrew given their location and the importance of those languages to trade among sea faring peoples But ... many books have been written on the theories of that topic alone. Its still a popular topic of research.