GEORGE BRAXTON: For some reason, this thing around the rapture was what everybody talked. So that was
dwelled upon a lot, the rapture. Well, now you got to realize this was, like, back in the 1920s, I think.
You know, we didn’t have television . . . Well, a lot of people didn’t have radios. Most people didn’t
have radios back . . . Nobody had electricity. Okay? So he [Braxton’s father’s cousin, Bud Lyons] was into
the scripture and rapture. He was outside cutting wood one day and he heard this sound. He looked up and
he saw this thing in the air coming. And in his mind, what he saw was the same way angels had been
described. So he automatically in his mind thought the rapture was fixing to take place and the angels was
coming down and he didn’t want to get left behind, okay? So he tried to get the attention of this thing he
saw flying, and he couldn’t. So he ended up climbing on top of the house for a higher vantage point and he
became so filled with the belief that he was going to ascend into the heavens with the rapture that he
just jumped off the house and thought he was going to ascend and the angel . . . Well, he didn’t. He hit
the ground. He broke an arm and a leg. He later found out that was an airplane he saw. [Laughs] That was
the first airplane he ever seen in his life. [Laughs]