Alabama People

When Vicki and I arrived in Moulton, we asked the young missionaries what we could do to help them. In October they asked us to take over fellowshiping and teaching a young woman. Her name is Kimberly Fairbanks. She is married to Brent, a faithful LDS man. They have a cute little daughter named Zayne. We teach Kim on most Sundays. Half the time they come here and half the time we go to their place eight miles west of Moulton. We alternate making meals and then teach her afterwards. Kim is a very kind person and we pray she'll come to know the truth of the gospel. She just needs to open her heart to the Holy Ghost.

Myra Bordon and Vicki in the Lawrence County Archives. Myra is a character who away speaks her mind. We'd know it if we weren't handling her records correctly as we film them. We like her very much and have been able to teach her a lot. She's not LDS but she's a real defender of the "Mormons". Her southern accent is as Southern as

Southern gets. She likes to tell us 'Redneck' jokes. She doesn't want us to ever leave. We have an open invitation to her and Lester's home if a tornado comes. Lester has built a shelter. He calls it his 'fraidy hole'.

This is Neil and Betty Hays Thornberg. Her 'Great Grandaddy' Jessie Hays is the same as ours. She's a lover of the Hays Family and has stacks of books and research on them. Neil was married to her sister Sally's best friend for many years until her death. Betty's husband died about the same time as his wife. Later she and Neil married. They drove up to Tennessee one day and decided to get married. They were told to go up to the livestock feed store to find the justice of the peace. They asked the owner where the justice was and he said "that's me. They were wed in the back room of the feed store. Neil and I talk a lot about the gospel. Vicki and Betty talk a lot of family history. They're great people. They are the ones who showed us the 'hidden' Davis/Bethum cemetery where Jessie Hays and Sarah Ann Wilcoxson are buried.