Dear James: I found your email today while do a little mail box cleaning. I do not see where I answered you. I really must apolize. Yes Doty Springs Homecoming is still going strong. I have only visited there twice but I do plan to go agin this coming May. I have seen Dr. Sims and other Sims markers. The Cummins family must have been clsoe in some way - one of my Uncles was named Onie Sims Cummins. I am sure you would enjoy a return trip. A lot of people come and surely you may see some of your long lost kin. C Ya Marilyn "SUSIE" lindsey Columbus, MS ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: [MSATTALA] Doty Springs homecoming > My Woods grandparents and several Sims great-uncles are buried as Doty > Springs, as well as a host of cousins of their generation. > > My g-great grandfather Rev. Jonathan Sims and / or his father Rev. David Sims > were said to have been pastors at Doty Springs. Two of Jonathan Sims sons > who died relatively young are buried there. That one or both men had been > pastors therer was unknown to me as a child growing up in the 1950's. > > A precious memory of Doty Springs was the Homecoming, I recall it as the 3rd > Sunday in May, in which the day was spent eating and avoiding the hugs from my > Mom and Dad's kin. > > I recall my Dad pointing out an older grave, that of a Jennings man. (He > had a granddaughter married to one of the sons of La Velle Sanders.) It seems > that the old man claimed a burial plot near the gate so he would be the first > out on resurrection day. Dad says that they buried him as he wished and then > moved the fence and gate back quite a way. > > Does the chuch still celebrate a homecoming? James Sims, b. Kosy 1948, > raised in Pascagoula > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected]@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. For 'Digest Mode' send the unsubscribe message to [email protected] > >