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Grandma Horsewhipped for Jesus

1/20/2013

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Indian Grammy Teaching Child

01-21-13  Grandma Horsewhipped For Jesus

For many years I have been considered to be a White Man. Of course this is observably not altogether true, for while Mom was conceived in Germany and born in Baltimore, my father was a Monacan Indian from the Bear Mountain area of Amherst, Virginia. They lived together having four children, separating while I was barely in the hanger.

On my father’s side the history is one of poverty and courage. In Virginia in the 1920’s a Nazi type bureaucrat implemented legislation that lumped Blacks, Indians, and any other non-Caucasians as “Colored,” thus depriving them of full citizenship and the rights thereof. This was not rectified until the Supreme Court ruled against such in 1967. Dr. Walter Plecker had been the driving force in implementing the “Racial Integrity Laws of 1924,” fashioned after the Colored’s of South Africa.

 My Paternal Grandmother, Willie Ann Branham, was horsewhipped by men in white robes and hoods one night for teaching black children to read. She saw a wrong, and even in the face of such danger, she stood for right.

 Today’s point is simple; where you see wrongs; abortion for instance, are you willing to stand up and be counted?

“In the final analysis, a person’s quality of character is, and will be measured, not by how he stood for the right in times of the right being in favor, but how he stood when right was on the scaffold, and the rope was being measured for his neck.”
Mel Branham.

 “And having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13

Copyright © 2013 Larry Lilly

 


5 Comments
Tom Gentry
1/20/2013 09:33:56 pm

Larry,
A note at the end of the daily letter giving permission
to forward to friends and family might be of value to you.
God Bless you.
Tom

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Larry Lilly link
1/20/2013 11:45:41 pm

Tom,

Thanks for this idea. I will beging with tonights article and please feel free to FWD todays or any of them.

God bless,

Larry

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Anita
1/21/2013 06:34:33 am

Larry, I hope my email address works for you now. Send Tom a reply if it doesn't and if it doesn't work, then we'll have to put our thinking caps on because I really don't know why it's causing a problem for us. By the way, it's zero 9 and maybe that's what the hang-up is.

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STACEY LOCKLEAR
4/25/2014 04:56:04 am

I AM RELATED TO WILLIE ANN HER BROTHER CLIFTON WAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER.
HIS NAME WAS CLIFTON WILLIS - HIS DAUGHTER ETHEL WAS MY GRANDMOTHER.

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Larry Lilly link
4/25/2014 07:53:12 am

Stacey, Thank you for this comment concerning our departed Willie Ann. I understand she was a strong women who loved the right and paid for it with scars. I never knew her as mom left my dad, Daniel Boone Branham prior to my birth a few months later and the man she married gave his name to me. He was George Melvin Lilly and he died with I was six years old. I found who my biological father was when I was 18. I became close to him over the years and he met my children and he I actually worked together for awhile. He as steel worker climbing the high stuff. I was the clergyman at his funeral in Port Clinton, Ohio in 1983. He and his wife Edith are both buried there. Thank you so much for the note. And for reading this letter. God bless. My email is larrylilly@larrylilly.net

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