Notes for Pearlie Gertrude Mckoy: After Paul Hutson Mckoy Jr. died May 1949, Ms. Pearlie G. McKoy Married Mr. James Stokes . He was from High Point , North Carolina. Mr. Stokes was also a preacher in Danville, VA. The name of the church was Liberty Hill. They were married at Pearlie Mckoy daughter Rebecca Baldwin house in Danville VA. In 1955. Being married to these two men was a sad thing to say the least. Paul Hutson was a very mean man he strike you like a rattlesnake. He hurted my grandmother really bad. My aunts told me that he kicked my grandmother in her private area. Down the road of the years in her life, we believe that, that same kick had something to do with her death. Even though James Stokes was a preacher he was also very mean to my grandmother. James Stokes married Pearlie G. Mckoy in the year of 1959. He was the Pastor of Liberty Hill Church in Danville, VA. My grand mother was a very good person. I remeber her real good when we moved to Plainfield, NJ. I was about five years old. We would walk across the street to Gills Store and she would always hold my hand crossing the street. When we get to the store she would tell me that I could get one thing from the candy shelf. One day we were coming from the stor, I ask mamma ( she was the only mamma I ever had even if she was my fathers mother) How could she be my mamma and my daddys mamma at the same time. I remember asking her this several times and she would always say child stop troubling yourself with that mess a go on and play. All that matters is that I love you. Then she would go on about her business and I would go somewhere and play. That subject didn't trouble me any more until I was ten and sixteen years old. that's another story. My grandmother died on December 31, 1970. That month of December 1970 to the month of February 1998 was the worst years of my life from childhood to adulthood. The only good thing that happened to me was that I lived to give birth to my three boys. And Iam trying my hardest for them not to come up in life the way I did. Well that's another story also. I remember my grandmother would tell me stories about my great-great aunt Millie-Christine Mckoy. I knew then that our family was unique. My grandmother Pearlie would tell me about how when she was a little girl, they her and other children would go in the field were the big house of Millie-Christine had burned down. The children would play and dig up the dirt where the house use to be and dig up some of the melted gold. You see the old saying is the twins had a trunk with the gold went with it. My grandmother would tell me stories about how Millie-Christine being the first siames african american twins born in the world that lived to the ripe age of 61 years old.
More About Pearlie Gertrude Mckoy: Date born 2: June 09, 1902
More About Pearlie Gertrude Mckoy and Paul Hudson Mckoy: Marriage: 1923, Welchs Creek, NC..
Children of Pearlie Gertrude Mckoy and Paul H. Mckoy Jr. are:
Pearlie Gertrude Mckoy (b. June 09, 1902, d. December 31, 1970)
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