Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HJR0057 Compare Versions

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4	4	HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 57
5	5	By Howell
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8	8	HJR0057
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12	12	A RESOLUTION to honor and congratulate Jessie Lee Coppock
13	13	on the celebration of her 104
14	14	th
15	15	birthday.
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17	17	WHEREAS, it is fitting that we pay tribute to those citizens who are celebrating special
18	18	occasions in their estimable lives; and
19	19	WHEREAS, Jessie Lee Coppock will celebrate her 104
20	20	th
21	21	birthday on March 7, 2025, a
22	22	milestone that will be commemorated as yet another precious souvenir of life's rich pageant;
23	23	and
24	24	WHEREAS, Ms. Coppock was born on March 7, 1921, in Crawford County, and she has
25	25	enjoyed an amazing life and experienced firsthand the breadth and span of American history;
26	26	and
27	27	WHEREAS, the second of thirteen children born to Robert Lee Gulledge and Olvie
28	28	Elizabeth Harris Gulledge, Jessie Coppock relocated with her family to Conasauga in Polk
29	29	County, where her father sought employment and worked as a sharecropper and in sawmills to
30	30	make ends meet; and
31	31	WHEREAS, Ms. Coppock has recalled many of the hardships her family endured in
32	32	order to survive, such as eating cornmeal gravy made with water until the wheat grain was
33	33	ready for harvest and saving eggs to trade for coffee and other necessary items from the rolling
34	34	store, which came by once a week; and
35	35	WHEREAS, her family often crossed a frozen Conasauga River by wagon in the
36	36	wintertime and walked when road conditions became too muddy for the wagon wheels; she also
37	37	went to school in a covered wagon, taking her milk in an old vanilla flavoring bottle and carrying
38	38	her food in a metal bucket; and
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43	43	WHEREAS, Jessie Coppock and her family stored vegetables underground to prevent
44	44	them from freezing and made what was known as "leather britches," green beans strung up with
45	45	thread to dry; at times, breakfast consisted of only cooked corn, but her father ensured they
46	46	never went to bed hungry; and
47	47	WHEREAS, the children normally helped with housework, among other farming jobs,
48	48	including cutting sugarcane and loading the wagon; washing laundry by the river and hanging
49	49	the clothes on shrubs to dry; and picking cotton and loading it into the gin, a job that proved to
50	50	be quite dangerous, if they were not careful; and
51	51	WHEREAS, Ms. Coppock would help her mother make lye soap from fireplace ashes,
52	52	can green beans by boiling them in the wash tub, salt and sugar cure the hog meat, and milk
53	53	the cows to clabber and churn buttermilk and butter; and
54	54	WHEREAS, at the age of six, Jessie Coppock was required to walk a quarter mile to the
55	55	barn to feed and harness the mules for work in the fields; she would then return home and
56	56	prepare breakfast alongside her older sister, using homemade stools to reach the top of the
57	57	wood stove; and
58	58	WHEREAS, despite many hardships, Ms. Coppock, her family, and other neighborhood
59	59	children found joy in the small things and always made time to play and enjoy one another's
60	60	company; after the Conasauga River Bridge was completed, Conasauga residents gathered at
61	61	the edge of the bridge to celebrate, with people praying, singing songs, and worshipping; and
62	62	WHEREAS, as Jessie Coppock enters her 104
63	63	th
64	64	year, she is truly revered for her
65	65	perseverance and her dedication to her family and faith; and
66	66	WHEREAS, we wish to grasp this golden opportunity to specially recognize one of
67	67	Tennessee's most outstanding citizens on this very special occasion; now, therefore,
68	68	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED
69	69	FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE SENATE
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74	74	CONCURRING, that we recognize and honor Jessie Lee Coppock on the celebration of her
75	75	104
76	76	th
77	77	birthday and extend to her our best wishes for many happy returns of the day.
78	78	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared
79	79	for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to
80	80	the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear
81	81	without House or Senate designation.
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