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SOME SELF STORIES:
TRUE OR FALSE
contributed by James Self
From the William Isaac Self Line
Mack McInnis, a local, now deceased, told me that the way
Samuel Elisha Self, my great grandfather, died was in the kitchen. He
was propped against the door jam in a cowhide chair, with a plate of
peach cobbler on his belly. He got quiet and was found dead in that
position.
My grandfather, Frank David Self, was a security guard for Monsanto at
Texas City when the ships blew up. He survived when the concrete
building he was in collapsed and the wall closest to the explosion fell
against the opposite wall where he was. The farthest wall broke off
about 2 feet above the floor, and the other wall fell on top of it. He
was in the wedge shaped area between the floor and the wall on top.
Just scratched up. The debris fell from the sky for miles around. His
trailer, where he lived with my grandmother, Jeanette (Nettie),
formerly a Bailey of Hornbeck, La., was bombarded by schrapnel. The
roof was punctured several places. So grammaw flattened fruit cans and
nailed them over the holes. When I tore apart that dilapidated trailer
in the 1980's, the patches were still on the roof. And I found a news
clipping in the trailer about the explosion. At that time my dad lived
in Port Arthur, TX and heard the explosion. He drove to Texas City and
found my grandparents alive.
David Washington Self, my great-great grandfather, fought at Shiloh
with General Ruggles. It is said he was shot up real bad and thought
dead. But he was promoted to Major from that action, and found at the
end of the war in Natchitoches Federal Prison. I like to imagine him
riding in front of the Union armies like Kevin Costner in Dances with
Wolves, but I think he was infantry, and just got shot up in the
attack. I think the La 17th was in the left flank.
His dad was William Isaac Self , Jr. and supposed was murdered in St. Helena Parish in 1813.
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