Louis Hunter was born (Louise Strong)
on June 14th. 1934. She was the
second eldest of four children, born
to her sharecropper parents;
Carrie and Andrew Strong.
The Strong's lived in Warren-
County on a small farm, far out
into the country-side, thirty or
so miles from the more modern
and more modern (populated)
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
They dwelt in a small white
farm house that was surrounded
a wire fence, encircling the
yard where there was an abundance
of grass, schrubs, shade
trees and flowers.
The Strongs had no electricity,
natural-gas or running water
on the farm, therefore everything
that was done manually.
It was in these primative
surroundings that set the
stage for the making of one
of Americas greatest
contemporary humanitarians.
As Louise begins to recall it:
life was'nt easy back in those days,
but it was much simpler and safer than
things today. Though our little
farm house was old and run down,
it was the humble home which the
Lord had provided for us.
"Ummm!, it still makes my mouth
water just to think of sopping
mamma's homemade biscuits in her
delicious brown gravy. I sho miss
eating the food that we had
raised on our farm.
Since we were raised during the
great depression era, we were very
poor and had little money,
but the Lord kept us from harm
and provided for us. Oh! if I had only
known then that the roads that I was
to travel was to be rough and the
journey long. I could never have
dreamed that I could come so far
in life, I could have never
imagined the years that I spent
growing up on that farm would help
prepare me for my destiny, trials
tribulations, eventual success.
What was the purpose in all the pain
that I had to endure? this question
often ran through my mind, yet as the
Bible tells us "The steps of a good
man are ordered by the Lord:,
and he delighteth in his way
Though he fall, he shall not utterly
cast down: for the Lord upholdeth
him with his hand.(Psalms 37:23-24)
One thing is for sure. God knows what
he is doing . He is the potter, we're
the clay, therefore, we simply
learn to trust him.
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