THE BEATTITUDES

MATTHEW CHAPTER 5

3 BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT: FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

4 BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT MOURN: FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED.

5 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK: FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.

6 BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS: FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.

7 BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL: FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY.

8 BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD

9 BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMACKERS: FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD

10 BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE: FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

11 BLESSED ARE YE, WHEN SHALL REVILE YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU, AND SHALL SAY ALL MANNER OF EVIL AGAINST YOU FALSELY, FOR MY SAKE.

12 REJOICE, AND BE EVCEEDINGLY GLAD: FOR GREAT IS YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN: FOR SO PERSECUTED THEY THE PROPHETS WHICH WERE BEFORE YOU.

MARY THURMAN was born to the union of NELSON THURMAN(NATIVE AMERICAN) and LILA BROWN THURMAN(CREOLE) on December 1,1889 in Brandon, MS.  She was one of 19 children and one of the last known ones to go home.  I met three of her sisters, IDA THURMAN POLE(AUNT IDA), MARTHA JANE THURMAN ENOCH(LITTLE MAMA), and MARIAH THURMAN DAVIS(AUNT RYE).  AUNT IDA LIVED IN SOUTH BEND,IN AUNT MARIAH AND LITTLE MAMA AND GRANDMOTHER lived in Star,MS. GRANDMOTHER HAD 1 GIRL GERTIE ROUSON, MY MOM WHO IS STILL LIVING. AUNT IDA HAD A DAUGHTER, COUSIN MAE(STATUS UNKNOWN) AUNT RYE HAD A SON KILLED IN THE WAR AND LITTLE MAMA HAD 2 CHILDREN ROY THURMAN(STILL LIVING) AND EDNA ENOCH , WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1989 AT 52, 6 MONTHS BEFORE GRANDMOTHER DIED FROM A SPACE HEATER FIRE.