"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Henderson Cousins--Hershel, James, and Berniece
Bluesman James.
Descendants of Argulus Hercules Henderson, a Regulator in North Carolina in the early 1770s, a pre-Revolutionary trouble-maker some of whose friends were hanged by the British governor, and descendants of his son Ezekiel, who volunteered at 18.
James's mother Berniece Henderson drove Gladys Presley to Parchman during Vernon's year there. Here is Berniece around 1936:
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