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1927 Born at home at 703 Longstreet Avenue in Macon, Mississippi,
at 10:30 PM, Friday, December 30.
Seventh son of Ray Lewis Rhymes by his 2nd wife, Annie Ella Ames
Dr E.M. Murphey attending. Birth Certificate No.49702 registered
in Bureau of Vital Statistics, Jackson, MS.
1933 Started school in September. Died of pneumonia. (Dr. Murphey was
hard of hearing.) Started again the next year.
1941 Realized that I march to a different drummer.
1942 Awarded the American Legion School Award on May 24.
1943 Father died February 14 - St. Valentine's Day - the perfect mentor
1945 Graduated Kemper County Agricultural High School (Scooba, MS) in
August. Took 12th grade there to finish before military service.
1945 Entered Mississippi State College, Starkville, to major in
chemical engineering.
1946 Drafted, US Army, Medical Corps, April 4.
1947 Discharged from Army May, 5. General demobilization
1947 Entered East Central Junior College at Decatur, June
1948 Transferred to the University of Mississippi, Oxford, January
1948 Initiated Sigma Chi fraternity, June, 25.
Joined US Naval Reserve
Sailed aboard US Haynesworth, DD700 for 2 week training cruise
in the Caribbean. Visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Port au
Prince, Haiti
1949 Awarded Cross of Military Service, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Oxford, MS
1949 Confirmed by Rt Rev DM Gray, St Peter's, Oxford, April 17.
1949 Joined Mississippi Society, Sons of the American Revolution,
May 21.
1949 Founded "The Longstreet Society", in Longstreet Hall, Ole Miss
1949 Appointed Lay Reader by Bishop Duncan Montgomery Gray, Oct. 12.
1949 Admitted as Entered Apprentice, Macon Lodge #40, F&AM, December
1950 Advanced to Fellow Craft, F&AM, February
1950 Raised to Master Mason, F&AM, March 11.
1950 Mark Master, William White Chapter #21(?), RAM, July 20.
1950 Past Master, RAM, August 3.
1950 Most Excellent Master, RAM, August 17.
1950 Master of the Royal Arch, RAM, August 22.
1950 Elected Commander, James Longstreet Camp #1200, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, University of Mississippi
1951 Awarded Bachelor of Arts degree, University of Mississippi,
January 29. Mailed to me. Grand-Dad astonished.
1951 Commissioned as Colonel, United Confederate Veterans, by General
Moore, Commander-in-Chief, UCV. February 7. Probably the last.
1951 Appointed Assistant Adjutant General, Order of the Stars and Bars,
for descendants of Confederate Officers. February 21.
1951 Appointed Assistant Adjutant General, Sons of Confederate Veterans,
in Richmond for final UCV reunion in Norfolk. 6/2
1951 Entered St. Luke's Seminary, Sewanee, Tennessee.
1951 Honorably discharged, US Navy, October 10.
1952 Admitted as Candidate for Holy Orders, October 16.
1953 Transferred to Bexley Hall, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
1954 Ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church, Church of the Holy
Nativity, Macon, Mississippi, March 30th. Feast of St Sebastian.
1954 Awarded Bachelor of Divinity degree, Kenyon, June 14.
1954 Appointed Vicar, St. John's Episcopal Church, Leland, MS,
June 30th.
1954 Ordained Priest, St. John's, Leland, Nov 30, Feast of St Andrew
Assigned Vicar, St. Thomas', Belzoni
Assigned Vicar, St. Stephen's, Indianola
Assigned Vicar, All Saints, Inverness
1955 Grandfather died July 20. I was in Mexico I loved him a lot.
1957 Transferred to St. Michael's Farm for Boys, Picayune, MS
1957 Took initial vows, Anglican Friars Minor
1958 Transferred to St. Andrew's, New Orleans
1961 Entered Graduate School, Tulane University, New Orleans
1963 Awarded Master of Education degree, Tulane University, August 31.
1964 Appointed Principal of St. Martin's Episcopal School, Metairie
1970 Deposed from the Priesthood at my request. Bishop Noland
1970 Became Theravada Buddhist
1972 Founded Longstreet & Co., October 2.
1972 Admitted to Mensa, top 1%, IQ 154, November 1.
1974 Resigned as Principal, St. Martin's, June 30.
1976 Bought Mobile Home Park, Longstreet Village, River Ridge, LA
(My, how the mighty have fallen.)
1977 Hired Michael Lloyd Baker as Manager, Longstreet Village, November 3.
1979 Have cancer in the left lung, in remission
1982 Adopted Michael as Michael Longstreet Rhymes, December 30.
1983 Mother died in Tupelo, MS, on 11-21-83. She was 91.
1984 Bought Minuteman Press franchise for Kenner, LA
1984 Listed in WHO'S WHO, in the South and Southwest (19th Edition)
1985 Heart attack, "Only the good die young."
1986 Sold Minuteman, began the Longstreet Press, 734 Orleans, New Orleans. Sept.
1987 Hired Dennis Ellard Villorente as Manager, Longstreet Press, December 30.
1991 Adopted Dennis as Dennis Longstreet Rhymes, August 2.
1994 Closed Press and Returned to Longstreet Village
1997 Moved back to the French Quarter
1996-9 During this period I developed genealogical websites and mailing lists for:
Monmouth County,NJ; Currituck County,NC; Macon County,GA; and the Census Lookups.
Subsequently as they grew larger, these have been turned over to others.
Presently I still maintain these family sites:
Ames, Barron, Clower, Dent, Fitz-Randolph, Holden, Longstreet, Lucas, Marshall,
McVey, Rhymes, Rosser, Spann, Willis, Yates
1999 Sold Longstreet Village after nearly a quarter century, for nearly 3 quarter million.
1999 Developed websites for:
Noxubee County, MS and
The State of Delaware, ALHN,
2000 Bought a home in the French Quarter at 931 Chartres, in 140 year old condominium.
2001 Bought another condominium in the Quarter, at 526 Madison, New Orleans for rental.
2001 Old age has given me Stasis Dermatitis, merely ugly and annoying.
2003 Sold Madison place.
2003 Contracted Meniere's Disease, an incurable major nuisance.
2003 Ordained into the Church of Spiritual Humanism, by email. Nov 17
2004 Bought another condominium in the French Quarter, at 1204 Chartres, for rental.
2004 Developed website for The State of Mississippi, ALHN.
2004 Revised and republished the old website for Monmouth County, NJ, ALHN.
2004 Developed a Super Site to locate all states in the 3 major genealogical networks,
AGHP, ALHN, and USGenWeb.
2005 Became Webmaster for the Noxubee County Historical Society (NCHS), Mississippi
2005 Hurricane Katrina practically destroyed New Orleans. Enforced evacuation sent us
all over the country. About 250 of us were shipped off to Greenville, SC. Later
I bought a condo in Fernandina Beach in Nassau County in the north east corner of Florida.
2006 Another year, another problem. Now it's seborrheic keratosis.
2007 Alas - and now I've got diabetes - with needles in my fingers for the rest of my life.
2008 Current photograph
2008 Bought a place for Michael, 2.5 acres with a concrete block house, a mobile home and lots of
live oaks, dripping in spanish moss. Picture
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