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Part VI Mexican War Reminiscences by Judge Zo. S. Cook...

 
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Part VI Mexican War Reminiscences by Judge Zo. S. Cook

MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part VI By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April 1897, and were made to the Wilcox Progressive Era, published at Camden) Article 6 Our way now was on a beautiful table land, which is certainly as lovely a country and climate as there is […]

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PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend, Bibb County, Alabama, Pratts, Blake, Fletcher, Sumners, McElroys and more

W. P. Wallace wrote a series of articles in The Centreville Press about Bibb County, Alabama’s history. This one of his transcribed articles transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama August 5, 1899 FIRST WHITE SETTLERS of Bibb County By W. P. Wallace For want of desired information in regard to Hill settlement, we will […]

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PATRON – Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama – Union Springs was booming in 1885

(Transcribed from Union Springs Herald, Union Springs, Alabama October 7, 1885) LOCAL NEWS Read the advertisement of H. A. S. Backer, dealer, in millinery and fancy goods, New Orleans. Mr. Eugene Glover sells bars of soap for 25 cents, instead of for $1, as types in his advertisement erroneously state. Messrs. Thompson & Abercrombie have […]

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: This man only had two friends

This man must have been difficult to be friends with.  On a tombstone in Ohio, are these lines: Here the old man lies, No one laughs no one cries. Where he has gone or how he fares No one knows and no one cares But his brother James and his wife Emeline They was his […]

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