ANNUAL NEWSLETTER
JULY, 2013
2013 Scholarship Program to
Emphasize “Restraint”
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
The idea of our 2013 Theme: “Restraint – A
Shankleville Heritage,” can seem difficult to grasp
2013 Scholarship Program
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A Call to Action
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2012 – Diligence: A Shankleville Heritage
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at first glance. “Restraints” can be viewed as the
National Trust Grant
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hindrances of slavery and Jim Crow that our
In Memoriam
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ancestors endured, or as the self-imposed checks
Purple Hull Pea Festival
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and limitations we use to bring discipline to our
lives – a basic ingredient for success. Restraint as
a “hindrance” or a “help,” depends on perspective,
and the 2013 Forum Discussion will explore this
concept from all angles.
How do parents change and modify restraints
throughout a child’s life? How do parental
restraints transform into a young adult’s selfimposed restraints, and how do the new restraints
imposed on Shankleville residents in the 19th and
20th centuries could have resulted in positive
aspects of our current Shankleville heritage?
Join the Society at the Scholarship Program on
Sunday, August 4 at 2:30p.m. to support our
Scholarship Finalists and explore these questions.
differ? Is it possible that the societal restraints
“Coming Back, Giving Back” – A Call to Action
“Coming back, giving back” has been the rallying
Homecoming and Historical Society issue this “Call
cry for the Shankleville Homecoming and
to Action” to all Shankleville descendants:
Historical Society for more than twenty years. As
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Think about the last time you attended the
we continue the Homecoming’s mission of
Homecoming, or volunteered your talents
preserving our ancestors’ final resting places (the
during the Homecoming weekend. Our
Community cemeteries), and the Historical
continued success depends, more than ever, on
Society’s mission of commemorating their lives,
the efforts of those of us who are proud to be
we need your support in fulfilling these missions.
“from” Shankleville, even though we do not live
“in” Shankleville. What can you do to “Come
With the rising costs of printing, postage,
cemetery upkeep and other expenses, the
back?”
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Donations to the Historical Society enable us to
Please see A Call to Action on page 4
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Shankleville Annual Newsletter
2012 Program – “Diligence”
Ishmael “Tre’” Cox is the latest addition to the
long list of recipients of the Shankleville
Memorial Scholarship. For a complete roster of,
of past awardees, refer to our website:
www.shankleville.org.
$2,600.00
Total value of Shankleville
Scholarships to be awarded
in 2013
Ishmael “Tre’” Cox is presented with the 2012 Shankleville
Memorial Scholarship.
Historical Society Secures National Trust Grant
The Shankleville Historical Society was awarded a
Society envisions working with the Odom family
grant from the National Trust for Historic
to establish the property as the “heart” of the
Preservation. The matching grant of $4,375 will
Shankleville Community – providing a site that
be used to produce an “Existing Conditions and
will link the story of rural Texas freedmen’s
Preservation Plan” for the preservation and re-use
of the A.T. and Addie Odom Homestead, which
was listed on the National Register of Historic
Places in 2012.
The completion of the plan will be the first step
toward restoring the historic Odom house and
surrounding outbuildings. Once restored, the
community like Shankleville, to present-day
exhibits and activities.
Join the Historical Society at its Annual Meeting
at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, August 3 to learn more
about this exciting project.
2013
Scholarship
Finalists
enticing
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way toward
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Shankleville Historical Society, Inc.
Annual Meeting
Saturday, August 3, 2013
2:00 p.m.
Church of God
Zaddious Byerly
Randall Odom Clay
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Robert Kenebrew
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In Memoriam
In keeping with the “Memorial” in our Shankleville
Memorial Scholarship Program, seventeen
Shankleville families collectively donated more than
$100 to commemorate their loved one. Find out
Booker T., Sr. and Exie Lee Riggins
Curley and Omega Shankle
Pate, Zelma and Louella Shankle
Anderson, Sr. and Surfronie White
more about their lives and legacies at
www.shanklville.org.
Artie and Geneva Brailsford
Maeola Blieutt
Willie and Lillie Mae Booker
Matthew Honer Clay, Sr.
Arvetta Lewis Cooper
Roosevelt and Beulah Grant Family
Jim and Almada Holmes
John Wesley and Jessie Lewis
A.T. and Addie Odom
Ivey Odom
James E. Odom
Harold, Sr. and Lonnie Odom
Doretha and Homer Traylor Family
A. J. Enterprises
Baqir Ali Enterprises, Inc.
Coleman Mortuary
Coolridge Coleman, Jr. D.D.S.
First National Bank of Jasper
Meigs Building Material
Millwork Construction
PRM Consulting
Re-New Construction
The Shankleville Hunting Club
Doug Williford & Son Air Conditioning
Thanks to our
Corporate Supporters!
Purple Hull Pea Festival
Plans are underway to celebrate the first annual
Festival organizers anticipate attendees from
“Texas Purple Pea Festival” on July 12-13, 2014 in
throughout Deep East and Southeast Texas, as well
the Shankleville Community. The festival will be
as Southwest Louisiana.
sponsored by the Shankleville Historical Society, in
partnership with the Deep East Texas Council of
Up-to-date information about becoming a festival
Governments and Foodways Texas.
volunteer or vendor will be posted on the Society’s
website – www.shankleville.org and Facebook page.
Festival highlights will include contests (pea
picking, shelling, shooting), classes (pea growing,
cooking, preserving), music and a Farmers’ Market.
Foodways Texas will organize a Symposium
featuring speakers who will share their insights
into the role of agriculture (especially Purple Hull
Peas) in the lives of rural Texans.
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A Call to Action from page 1
support our scholarship recipients, maintain
done solely by paid groundskeepers. Are you
the website, and work on other preservation
consistently “Giving Back,” to support this
projects in the community.
important work?
Donations to the Homecoming are used for
Both organizations exist only to honor the lives and
the upkeep of the Shankleville Community
legacies of our Shankleville ancestors. Please take a
and Jim Shankle cemeteries. Many can
few moments to honor them personally by writing a
recall the old-fashioned “graveyard
check or contributing online at www.shankleville.org.
‘We can, we will, we MUST!”
working days,” when the community would
come together to mow the grounds and
clean the gravestones. Now, the upkeep is
We’re on the Web!
Visit us at:
www.shankleville.org
Shankleville Historical Society, Inc.
Larutha Odom Clay
3150 Dorothy Ave.
Beaumont, TX 77705
$600.00
One-time cost to mow the
Shankleville Community’s
two cemeteries