{"id":34316,"date":"2013-07-28T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=34316"},"modified":"2014-09-15T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:19:16","slug":"pearson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34316","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Sharon Swaney Cobb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/155_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61339\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/155_1.jpg\" alt=\"155_1\" width=\"177\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Sharon Swaney Cobb was a very good friend of mine when I lived in the small town of South Charleston, Ohio. Like all of my childhood friends, she knew me as Susie Kinnaird. She lived kitty-cornered across Mound Street from me. Her parents owned a church, and I remember singing and singing whenever I went with her. It was so much fun. I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon was sort of a shy girl but very, very pretty. She was a year or two older than I was. I adored her and I looked up to her. One of her thumbs had been cut off. I do not know how but it was. I would hold my thumb back as if mine was cut off as well. This is how much I wanted to be just like her.<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, my family moved to Florida, so I never saw her again. I was told about some of her life after I left, and I really hated what happened to her and her family. I was so shocked and hurt when I found out that this sweet person had gone through such a terrible ordeal and death.<\/p>\n<p>This past June, I placed flowers on Sharon\u2019s grave in Jamestown, Ohio, where she is buried alongside her father (who also died in Jonestown), her mother, her brother, and several other relatives.<\/p>\n<p>I will always remember Sharon, and I pray she is in a safe place now. I love you, Sharon, and will see you again some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Swaney Cobb was a very good friend of mine when I lived in the small town of South Charleston, Ohio. Like all of my childhood friends, she knew me as Susie Kinnaird. She lived kitty-cornered across Mound Street from me. Her parents owned a church, and I remember singing and singing whenever I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34370,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34316"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61340,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34316\/revisions\/61340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}