Irene McCall to turn 100 years old

By Starr Munro Riverbend News A baby girl was born to Warren and Sally Jernigan in the town of Wellborn on Feb. 1, in the year 1921. The youngest of nine siblings, Irene still has the oil lamp her family would use to get around at night. Electricity was slower to come to the more rural areas of the south in those years. Irene remembers sitting outside her family home with her brothers and sisters to count the cars, back in a time when the only traffic was those single cars seen once an hour passing by on their way to Lake City or Live Oak. Today, Irene resides with her son in Live Oak, where she's lived since the 1950's when she and her husband, Oliver McCall, originally from Madison,