Hi everyone. My name is Camilla Smith Jackson born April 2, 1947 in West Point, Troup County, GA. My parents were Charles Clifford Smith and Myrtle Waldrep Smith. I have one brother Travis Grant Smith born August 11, 1936 in Roanoke, AL. We moved quiet a bit but didn't go far. We lived in Shawmut when I was born but moved to Randolph County when I was around 2 or 3. Some where in those years we lived in 3 other locations in the Valley.Daddy bought a farm about 6 miles west of Roanoke off highway 22. We moved back to Plant City and I started first grade at Shawmut. Within less than 3 weeks we moved back to the house outside of Roanoke. I started first grade at Wadley and got to ride a real school bus for the first time. I rode a bus in Shawmut but it wasn't a school bus and we had to pay a dime to ride.
Some of the kids walked home and I decided one day I would do the same. I thought I would never get home. I had scratches from briars and bushes but that was the least of my pain.
One day I spent my dime that was suppose to be to pay for riding the bus. The bus driver let me ride with a promise to bring his dime the next day. Needless to say I never did either of those things again.