Precilla East Mcmahan

Police blotter

Saturday

Charles Timothy Terry, 52, 1700 block of Evergreen Lane, Tuscaloosa, was charged with unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance and trafficking of methanphetamine. Bail was set at $200,000.

Devonie Jamal Williams, 18, 2100 block of Fifth Street East, was charged with first-degree attempted arson, four counts of second-degree attempted arson, third-degree arson and third-degree burglary. Bail was set at $140,000.

Priscilla Dezell, 15000 block of Powell Loop, was charged with possession of a controlled substance. Bail was set at $10,000.

James Steven Kimbrell, 16000 block of Yellow Creek Road, was charged with possession of a controlled substance. Bail was set at $15,000.

Joshua James McMahan, 11000 block of Aaron Luke Road, Duncanville, was charged with trafficking methadone. Bail was set at $60,000.

Randall Gabriel Brown, 14000 block of Forest Daniel Drive, Foster, was charged with third degree burglary. Bail was set at $15,000.

Tuscaloosa Police

Theft

A green 1998 Plymouth Voyager was taken from the 800 block of 24th Avenue East between noon Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday.

A woman’s purse containing several prescription medications, a debit card and identification cards was taken from a residence in the 500 block of 38th Place East between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Thursday.

Burglary

A Dell aptop was taken and a dining room table was damaged in a residence in the 1800 block of Links Boulevard at 12:50 a.m. Saturday.

Unlawful breaking and

entering of a vehicle

An unknown amount of cash was taken from a vehicle in the 3100 block of 19th Street between 3 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

A U.S. General CB radio was taken from a parking lot in the 600 block of Bear Creek Road between 10 p.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Sunday.

Sex Offenders

For information in your area, see the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Web site at www.tcsoal.org , the Tuscaloosa Police Department’s website at tuscaloosa.com/pd or search the state’s registry at http://community.dps.alabama.gov/Pages/wfSexOffenderSearch.aspx .

Tuscaloosa FIRE

AND RESCUE RUNS

35 calls on Saturday.

"Let the Lord Be Praised, O Zion"

(Ps. 117.1)

     INTRO.: A song which encourages all nations and peoples to praise the Lord is "Let The Lord Be Praised, O Zion." The text was written and the tune was composed both by James Benjamin Franklin, who was born on Nov. 8, 1876, in Grimes County, TX, to W. Manuel and Jane McMahon Franklin, in the same little log cabin where his mother had been born. She was the daughter of Daniel B. and Priscilla East McMahon, who had come to Texas around 1835 and received land granted to them as part of Stephen F. Austin’s colony. When young Franklin was about seventeen, his family went to a farm in Limestone County, TX, and lived near Scence Hall for a few years, then moved to West Texas for a short while. However, they were forced to sell everything that they had because of a severe drought in 1887 and returned to Limestone County where they settled permanently with their seven children. At some point the Franklin family became members of the church of Christ. When James was growing up, his family and neighbors would sing in the fields while working and together in the evenings for entertainment, so he learned to love singing at a very early age. The Franklins all had beautiful singing voices, according to their neighbors and close friends, John K. and Elizabeth W. RIce, who also had several children. The Rices owned an organ, and Jim, as he was called, would go to their house and pick out tunes on it. He eventually fell in love with Edna Gertrude Rice when he was 21 years old and she was nineteen. They were married on Dec. 12, 1898, in a double ceremony with her brother, Hense Rice, and Jim’s sister, Della Franklin. The young married Franklin couple moved onto a tenant farm and settled down to raise a family in the country, but their first child, Carrie Emma, died at the age of three. This was such a terrible blow that for a while they were afraid to risk having any more offspring. However, when the next child, Bertha Irene, was born they found that their fears had been unfounded and went on to raise nine healthy children.

     While engaged in farming, Franklin was constantly humming a tune and would drop his plow, or whatever he was doing, rush into the house, jot down a few words or bars of music, then go back to his work.

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