EDWARD “BUTCH” LEMELLE JR: My niece Kim, she ended up owning the land where my grandmother and grandfather
lived. And dedicated it . . . or donated it for the church.
JENNIFER A. CRAMER: Which church?
LEMELLE: Mossville Truth. Who has now moved to Lake Charles.
CRAMER: Is that Mossville Truth Tabernacle?
LEMELLE: Right. We were there . . . That church was built on my grandmother and grandfather's property
that Kim donated for the church. And another thing about that place, we always said it would be a holy
grounds. Holy, holy because that's what my grandmother said her place would always be a place to feed
hungry or . . . Because that's what they did. And when my pastor was getting ready to demo [demolish] to
make ready to build a church, my grandmother and grandfather’s house was [crying] still standing. And he
had trucks that was to come and tear down and haul it off. And that man paced up and down and he couldn't.
He paid those guys, the truckers, he paid them. He said, "Y’all go ahead on I'm going . . . I got to make
another decision." And he told me he said, "I can't tear this house down. I can't let it leave." He went
and rented a machine and dug a hole. My grandmother's house is still there. He would not let them haul it
off. He said, "Not a nail from this house is going to leave." So he buried it. So the holy ground is yet
still there. I don't know what Sasol is going to do. Somebody might get saved over there. [laughs]