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  • Collection: "Lift Every Voice": African-American History in Haywood County

Original Johns Creek Baptist Church
This was the original Johns Creek Baptist Church before it moved down the road.

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Al Forney (on Left) being interviewed.

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Nat Lowery and Family taken at family reunion

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Newspaper article in Waynesville Mountaineer about Nat the Cat

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Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer in 1950. Not long after, she began travelling to Chapel Hill for treatment. She eventually moved to Chapel Hill, to be near one of her sisters, after her daughter, Georgia, married and began to start her own…

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The staff at the Towne House was largely integrated, giving African American employees the opportunity to express themselves through food. The owners of the Towne House, Myrtle and Maude Jones, got along well with Elizabeth. Elizabeth even helped…