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PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend – lives of Hopkins Pratt and some of his children...

 
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PATRON + First White Settlers in River Bend – lives of Hopkins Pratt and some of his children

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 24, 1899 FIRST WHITE SETTLERS of Bibb County By W. P. Wallace The Hon. Hopkins Pratt represented our county in the Legislature at an […]

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PATRON – Wright, Henderson, Martin, Houghton, Drake and more visit in 1885 Union Springs, Alabama

(Transcribed from Union Springs Herald, Union Springs, Alabama October 7, 1885) PERSONAL POINTS Miss Clara Wright of Spring Hill, Ala., is visiting Miss Claude Fort, on Chunnenuggee St. Miss Pinkie Henderson of Midway, Ala., is attending the Southern Female College at LaGrange, Ga. Dr. J. E. Martin, of Brewton Ala., spent a few days in […]

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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – 1895 Reasons and Cures for Sick Headache

The photograph is of a fifty-seven-year-old sharecropper woman in Hinds County, Mississippi uses thin dimes around the ankles to prevent headaches, Jun3 1937 Dorothea Lange (Library of Congress) THE SICK HEADACHE This complaint is the result of eating too much and exercising too little. Nine times in ten the cause is in the fact that […]

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