In an old oil painting, a teenage Arlene Davis is seen smiling under a giant pile of bright red hair. He told my mom that her baby was going to be all-right. The preacher, Davis said, “came and prayed for my sister around 5 p.m. When she was about 7 months old, she got very sick. His mother, Arlene Davis, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, at 16. The idea, Davis explained, is that if you can trust God with your immortal soul, you can trust him with your mortal body. Their church preached faith healing, and going to the doctor was forbidden. And I’m sick of their nonsense.”Ī tragic death and love of music brought the family togetherĭavis’ parents married as teenagers in McDowell County, West Virginia. … If you’re going to run me out of church with a whip, you better be a full-grown man, ladies and gentlemen, a full-grown man is what I’m telling you. “They’re trying to say that we’ve had a Covid outbreak. “They’re trying to say we’re killing people,” he said. However, in a statement on Facebook, Locke said when he pulled up to the interview he was supposed to have with CNN, he felt nauseous, and then God told him to cancel it.Ī few hours later, he did a Facebook livestream, in which he called CNN’s crew of three women “diabolical jezebel spirits.” He did not respond to CNN’s email with questions, including ones about Kennedy’s death. Locke agreed to an in-person interview with CNN on May 24, but canceled 20 minutes before it was to start. And it could potentially lead to more loss of life.” “But to spread misinformation about it is dead wrong, in my, in my opinion. “If you don’t want to take a vaccination that’s entirely up to you,” he said. He said Locke’s spreading of misinformation could be harmful. “Because that would have meant being in the presence of Greg Locke, and a lot of people that I don’t think are thinking right right now,” Billy Davis said.Ĭhip Davis didn’t go either.
In phone calls and interviews and family visits that spanned two weeks and included two bluegrass performances, a story unfolded of the Kennedy-Davis clan, and the way a mix of music and faith brought it from the coal mines of West Virginia to Nashville’s country music scene.ĭavis and his brother Billy, who are singer-songwriters outside of Nashville, said they didn’t attend their uncle’s funeral. I think if Greg would find a modicum of humility, and just say ‘I was wrong.’ … Change is possible.” “I lost my relationship with my uncle over the church,” Chip Davis, Coburn Kennedy’s nephew, told CNN. Since then, his family has mourned his death – but are divided on Locke’s views on the virus. “And I discourage everybody under this tent to get it.”īut Locke’s preaching on Covid-19, and the vaccines designed to combat it, had already caused a rift in one family when a member died from the virus.Ĭoburn Kennedy, an attendee of Locke’s church, died from Covid-19 on April 13, his son, William, confirmed to CNN. I ain’t promoting it,” he said during his Sunday service on May 23, which CNN attended. Tennessee pastor falsely claims 'Covid-19 is not a pandemic'
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