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This site was updated on November 18, 2009
Photo here is Johnston/Johniken Matriarch - Effie Blackwell Click photo for larger view
"There is no place like home!""Home is the place where, When you have to go there, They have to take you in." - from Robert Frost's The Death of the Hired Man
The Flower Image courtesy of the Santalady Our special thanks to Juelie for the use of the beautiful magnolia, the state flower of Mississippi. You might want to give her a visit by clicking the Santalady.
When our ancestors came from Mississippi to Louisiana in the 1890s they felt right at home. Not only did the landscape look a lot like the place they left, they also continued to enjoy the magnolia trees. Many years after their arrival the magnolia became the Louisiana state flower. As far as I know the village of Pelican got its name from the bird by that name.
This is family at work! Click image to enlarge L.to R.: Richard Johnston, David Evans, Robert Rankin, Curtis Jernigan, and Gerald Johnson
A wonderful bird is the Pelican Whose beak can hold more than his bellican He can hold in his beak enough food for a week But I don't know how in the ----ican!
"There is no place like home!"
"Home is the place where, When you have to go there, They have to take you in." - from Robert Frost's The Death of the Hired Man 
The Flower Image courtesy of 
Brown Pelican