Copied to computer by Fred McCaleb
Wakefield, G. W - B. Dec. 14, 1804 - D. July 11, 1802
Wakefield, Nancy Mahala, wife of G W. Wakefield - B. Nov. 2,1814 -D. Jan. 6, 1891
Phillips, F. L. - B. Dec. 14, 1847 D Aug. 30, 1922
Phillips, Donia - B. Sept. 14, 1853 D. Jan. 28, 1943
Blount, Emma Hallmark, wife of Henry F.Blount - B. Dec. 16, 1901 D. Nov. 2, 1927
Hallmark, S. W., father - B. July 10, 1856 D. Apr. 15, 1928
Hallmark, M. R. mother - B. May 15, 1866 D. Oct. 14, 1938
Dozier, Ada B dau. of C.H. & W.E.Dozier
Phillips, J.R. - B. Nov. 27, 1845 - D. Apr. 14, 1917
Phillips, Nancey E. - B. Aug. 25, 1862 - D. Oct. 1, 1942
Phillips, John & Nancy - B,.
McCollum, Mary - B. July 22, 1852 - D. Jan. 16, 1906
Eason, Betty - B. 1836 - D. 1912
Eason, Moses - 6, 1832 - D. 1914
Dozier, W. E. - B. 1875 - D. 19_____
Dozier, C. H, - B. 1872 - D. l943
Earnest, Susie Hunt - B. Aug. 23, 1903 - D. Nov. 12, 1954
West off Byler Rd. north of Carbon Hill Rd. - Copied: H. &J,N, Mar. 21, 1959
Following is an update of the Phillips Cemetery done by Fred McCaleb June 25, 2000
John and Nancy Phillips scratched on a real old marker
Hallmark, Arthur April 28, 1894-Aug. 27 1973 Pfc US Army WW1
Hallmark, Nannie Lee Harkins Oct. 30, 1904-Apr. 15, 1997
Johnson, Katie July 21., 1915-May 15, 1966
Johnson, Ruben Nov. 28, 1910-May 16, 1992
Johnson, Doyal Drtti Feb. 4, 1936-------------
Johnson, Nora S. Jo Ann June 10 1933-June 11, 1990
Dozier, Grover C. 1899-1963
Dozier, Gracie N. Feb. 15, 1901-Nov. 5, 1975
Left grave unmarked
Silman, Eula Mae Dozier June 13, 1918-May 16, 1975 Resting in peace
Lowe, “Little Simon” David Ray Dec. 12, 1946-Mar. 27, 1971
Lowe, “Mama Smokie” Helen Gracie July 25, 1924-Dec. 3 1971
TUCKER FAMILY CENETERY
Lawrence, Margaret E. - B. Dec. 26, 1870 - D. Feb. 17, 1941
Tidwell, A. J. - B. Dec. 15, 1820 - D. Oct. 26, 1920
Tidwell, Margaret, wife of A.J.Tidwell - B. July 22, 1823 - D. July 20, 1867 July 20, 1887
Buice, Martha A. - B. Mar. 12, 1849 - D-. Apr. 29, -1927
Tidwell, S. P. - B. Jan. 20, t844 - D. Jan. 17, 1928
Tidwell, Gracy J., wife of S P. Tidwell - B. Oct. 22, 1854 –D Aug. 16, 1924 D. Aug. 16, 1924
Tucker, W, T. - B. June 15, 1880 - D. Nov. 29, 1925,
Heathcock, Willis Leon, Inf. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Pervy Heathcock 1930 1930
Sparks, Elvira - B. 1825 - D. Aug. 13, 1897
Sparks,William B. Mar. 31, 1821 - D. July 25, 1893
Sparks, Phelix B. Apr. 5, 1906 - D. Aug. 4, 1915
S.parks, Alice B. Marr. 6, 1900 - D. Oct. 17, 1900
Sparks, Mary F. - B. Jan. 31, 1891 - D. Apr. 4, 1891
Herren, Aaron - B. May 15, 1835 - D. July 13, 1915
Herron, Mary A., mother - B. Mar. 29, 1841 - D. Apr.25, 1932
Shaw, William - D. Jan. 14, 1956 - 18 Yrs. 5 Mos. 11 Days.
Shaw, Martha Alice - B. Jan. 28,- 1869 - D. June 10, 1909
Shaw, Lula M., dau. of J.M. & M.A,Shaw - B. Dec. 7, 1898 - D. Sept. 7, 1909
Whitehead, Mary 0. - B. Aug. 20, 1878 - D. Sept. 17, 1878
Whitehead, Mary J., wife of G.W.Whitehead - B. Feb.25,1846 -D. Aug. 20, 1878
Whitehead, James - B. Feb.17, 1877 - D. Mar. 13, i877 '
Tidwell, Sarah, dau. o,f A.J. & M.E.Tidwell - B. & D. May 22, 1862
Sparks, Susan - B. 1841 - D. 1888
Sparks,T. -B. July 25, 1847 - D. Dec. 25, 1913
Tucker, Samuel, son of G.W. & Arrenie Tucker - B. Apr. 17, 1892-D.Oct.12,1893
Kelley, Margret - B. July 15, 1877 - D. Oct.-1900
Tucker, Irena - B. July 25, 1855 - D. Oct. 30, 1923
Tucker, G, W. - B. July 8, l848- D. Jan. 31, 1934
Sparks, Clara Nobe, dau. of J.H. & E.L.Sporks - B.May 4,1913 -D. Feb.28, 1916
West of Byler Rd, North of Carbon Hill Rd. - Copied: H. & J.N, - Mar. 21, 1959
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Killingsworth or New River Cemetery, Fayette County, Alabama
By: Fred McCaleb
Hallmark, G. T.Harkey, mother -.b Feb. 22, 1866 - D. Jan. 6 1948
Hallmark W. H., father - B. Apr. 1, 1856 - D. Nov. 1, 1937
Woodard, Vester C. - D. July 21, 1958 - 66 Yrs. 6 mos. 21- Das. B Dec. 31, 1891
Flora L. Woodard b Feb. 15, 1896------May 4, 1964
Woodard, Stephen - B. May 21, 1835 - D. Feb. 5,. 1908
Woodard, Mrs. E. J., wife of Steven Woodard - B.Mar.16,1835 D. Dec.31,1921
Woodard, J. T., father - B. July 29, 1870 - D. Mar. I1, 1934
Woodard, Julia, mother - B. Mar. 20, 1875 - D. Apr. 28, 1940
Woodard, Martha J. - B. June 8, 1865 - D. June 6, 1941
Woodard, William Melton - B. Mar. 27, 1866 d. Apr. 21, 1939
Woodard, William Edward - B. Feb. 1, 1897 D. Sept. 11, 1936
Cannon, Terrell F., Jr., son of Terrel F. & Alma Cannon - B. 1929 D, 1942
Mayfield, Inf. of W.E. & M.J Mayfield - B. & D. Apr. 25, 1912
Mayfield, Inf. of Ed & M.Mayfield - B. & D. Jan. 27, 1924
Hallmark, J. M. B. Jan. 18, 1855 - D. June 6, 1916
Depoister, Susan B. Nov. 18, 1842 - D. Oct. 21, 1897
Depoister, R. J. S. Dec. 3, 1880 - D. Oct. 14, 1897
Woodard, Harold A. - B. Nov. 23, 1928 - D. July 2, 1930
Woodard, Floid, Inf. Son of John H. & Sallie Woodard - B.Sept.19,1892-D.Jan.1,1893
Woodard, Etta E., dau. of John H. & Sallie Woodard - B. Mar. 13,1896 -D. Sept. 23, 1913
Woodard, Sallie E. - B. Dec. 2, 1862 - D. Apr. 5, 1934
Woodard, John H. - B. Apr. 4, 1861 - D. Jan. 20, 1915
Woodard, Mamie S. - B. 1888 d 1955
Fowler, J. R. - B. 1871 - D. 1943
Fowler, Inf. of J.R. & S.J.Fowler - B. 1898 - D. 1898
*Killingsworth, Arms of James Samuel - Fingers of James Monroe 11:45 A.M. Friday
Oct. 19, 1903 - Cotton Gin
Killingsworth, The Son of J. M.. Killingsworth
Wedgeworth, Mrs. S. J. B. Oct. 4, 1814 - D. Feb. 14 -1887
Killingsworth, Mollie B. Dec. 5, 1869 - D. Jan. 1, 1936
Killingsworth, Charlie L. - B. Mar. 15, 1872 - D. Aug. 15, 1956
Killingsworth, Freeman - b. Aug. 6, 1830 - D. Aug. 14, or 24, 1883
Killingsworth, N\artho M - B. Dec. 11, 1813 - D 0 July 22, 1892
Killingsworth, James - D. Oct. 24, 1883 - Age 81 Yrs.
Wakefield, J. M. - Co. K. 4 Ala. Cav. - C.S.A. - B. Apr.12,1846 -D. Aug. 8, 1920
Mayo, James M. - B. Jan. 6, 1904 – D. Mar. 21, 1904
Bodds, Elizabeth - B. Aug. 30, 1827 - D. Feb. 22' 1889
Dobbs, J. H. B. Apr. 5, 1822 - D. July 2, 1899
Dobbs, Albert B. Oct. 13, 1835 - D. Mar. 16, 1912
Parker, J.H.M . - B. May 22, 1811 D. Aug. 31, 1893
P_____, S.M.F.- B. Apr. 15, 1879 D. Nov. 23, _____
Hoket, Mary A. B. Apr. 17, 1873 - D. 19_
Hoket, James C.B. Jan. 20, 1941 -
Sherer, Mary Lea B. Sept. 30, 1905 - D. Nov. 2, 1914
Dozier, Adeline B. 1840 - D. Aug. 7, 1906
Roby, M. M. wife of T.L.Roby - B. May 16, 1852 - D. Mar. 3, 1932 - mother
Roby, T. L. - B. Sept. 29, 1849 D. Dec. 22, 1898 ?
Roby, J. R. - B. Feb. 10, 1889D. Oct. 15, 1898
Roby, Noah - B. & D. Aug. 1897
Roby, bleiv. - B. & D. Aug. 1875
Hunt, Floyd A. - B. 1912 - D. 1956 - Ala. Pfc. 99 General Hosp. World War II (B. Sept. 2, 1912 - D. Oct. 11, 1956)
Killingsworth, Emma - B. 1879 - D. 19_
Killingsworth, Henry A. - B. 1876 - D. 1956
Killingsworth, H. K. - 80 Yrs. 4 fi\os. 23 Das.
Eason, Miss h\innie 6, - D. Jan. 3, 1959 - 86 Yrs. 2 Mos.
Killingsworth, W. J. - B. July I1, 1840 - D. Oct. 21, 1918
Woodard, Lewis F. - B. 1898 - D. 1952
Johnson, Sam E. - B. 1896 - D. 1958?
Johnson, Velma - B. 1894 - D. 1955
Johnson, Bethel - B. 1899 - D. 1952
Pickle, Minerva, mother - B. June 6, 1877
Pickle, A. J., father - B. Aug. 8, 1867 - D. Sept. 16,1942
Stubblefield, Sherrel Deann - B. Sept. 22, 1957 - D . June 13, 1956
Killingsworth, Mary , wife of W.O.Killingsworth - B. Sept. 6,1858-D.Nov.18,1883
Kelley, Dau. of J.E.O. & May Kelley - 25 Yrs. 2 Mos. 10 Das.
Tidwell, E. H., wife of J.C.Tidwell, dau. of J. & Mary.Kelly - B. Oct. 31, 1846
D. Aug. 28, 1873 - 24 Yrs. 9 Mos. 27 Das.
Depoister, C. A., son of J:.R..Depoister & Susan Depoister - B, Oct. 3, 1874 - D.
Nov. 23, 1876 - 2 Yrs. I Mo. 20 Das.
Townsend, Nancy V. E. - B. Jan. 24, 1870 - D. Mar. 5, 1915
Woodard, Wiley - B. Sept. 25, 1890 - D. Jan. 16, 1948
Woodard, George C. - B. 1868 - D. 1948
Woodard, Fannie - B. 1893 ----d. 1975
Woodard, Inf. of G.C. & S.F.Woodard - B. & D. Feb. 28, 1930
Woodard, Julia C. - B. Apr. 12, 1867 - D. June 10, 1922
Allred, George R., son of A.B. & M.E.Atired - B. Jan.B,.1915 d. Apr. 28, 1916
Killingsworth, Infants of C.W. & Ada Killingsworth - B. & D. (1) Dec. 8, 1922 (2) D. April 11, 1919
Killingsworth, Ada - B. 1895 - D. 1957
Killingsworth, Claudie - B. 16§3 - D. 1953
Fowler, S. J. - B. 1879 - D. 19----
Chafin, Edie - B. Aug. 29, 1886-- D. Mar. 13, 1888
Sherer, Gilder - B. 1880 - D. 1863
Sherer, Themanda B. - B. 1872 - D. 1876
Sherer, Joel C. - B. 1878 - D. 1901
Sherer, Charlie D. A. - B. 1867 - D. 1869
Eason, J. E. - B. Mar. 28, 1859 - D. Oct. 4, 1888
Dosier, W. D., to my husband - B. Aug. 19,, 1871 - D. Sept. 7, 1909
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Li.ilian Sherer B. Jan. 9, 1898
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Lillian Sherer B. Apr. 19, 1909
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Lilliaa Sherer B. Aug. 15, 1912
Sherer, John M - B. June 5, 1874 - D. Aug. 24, 1907
Sherer, Lillian - B. 1880 - D. 1943
Sherer, Ira E. - B. 1876 - D. 1952
Sherer, Johnathan D. - B. Sept. 6, 1842 - D. June 23, 1911
Sherer, Mary B. - B. April 10, 1846 - D. Arp. 1, 1911
Sherer, Christine Morrison - B. Oct. 30, 1907 - D. Oct. 26, 1909
Sherer, Noses Eason, Inf. Son of Dr. & Mrs. M.E.Sherer - B. May 22,1926-D.Aug.14,1926
Hunt, George A. b. 1900 d. 1907
Hunt, Clifteon B. 1915
Hunt, Ulysses F. B. 1935 D.
Wade, F.E. B. Jan 23, 1888 D. March 19, 1888
Additions June 24, 2001
Ralph H. Hunt Aug. 2, 1909-Jan 24, 1977
Isaac Newton Hunt Aug. 26, 1979—Nov. 12, 1966
Albetrt N. Hunt Jan. 11,, 1906---Oct. 22, 1987
Howard T. Hunt Jan 1`2, 1919-------Pfe US Army World War 2
Addie Lackey Hunt July 9, 1881-----Jan 20 1966
Rebeca H. Pratt Oct. 4, 1939-----Dec. 18, 2000
Melvine Hoket Apr. 9, 1884---Aug. 20, 1970
Lucille A. Sherer Campbell July 10, 1907----------------------
Claud S. Campbell June 15, 1902------September 3, 1996
Mary A. Hoket Apr. 17, 1873-----Jan. 29, 1974
James C. Hoket September 17, 1860---Jan 20, 1941
They were the sunshine of our home but now they are at rest.
Daly F. Dodd Oct. 1901-----Dec. 27, 1978
Effie I. Dodd Apr. 20, 1896-----Nov. 8, 1976
Minnie Woodard Feb 20, 1894----Oct. 11, 1979
Robert N. Wright Apr. 22, 1928------Apr. 9, 1994
Emma L Wright Apr. 6, 1931------------------------
Mother Minerva Pickle June 6, 1877------Mar. 7, 1960
Father A.J. Pickle Aug. 6, 1867-----September 16, 1942
Lester Stephen Woodard Apr. 1, 1907------July 8, 1992 US Army World War 2
Lewis F. Woodard Apr. 25, 1898-------Feb. 10, 1952
Michael L. Garner April 28, 1956----June 19, 1975
Fenton Hallmark April 3, 1893----July 4, 1985
Ida W. Hallmark July 23, 1887------March 26, 1976 Our lives to be continued, prepare to meet us in Heaven
Bryan Woodard September 6, 1900---April 19, 1985
Louise Woodard Dec. 29. 1908---April 5, 1985 In loving memory
Thomas L. Wells April 29, 1924----June 29, 1985
Mary E. Wells June 25, 1929--------------------------------
Ector Hallmark Sept 9, 1902-----1962
Pauline Hallmark April 4, 1907------April 27, 1944
Stephen Russell Woodard September 12, 1890—June 17, 1972 Gone but not forgotten
John L. Woodard June 30, 1921---Mar. 4, 1987
Evil L. Woodard Dec. 25, 1913-----March 9o, 1954
Pearl Anderson Mother Aug. 9, 1916------Aug. 28, 1994 We miss you mother
Cora Ethyl Killingsworth 1900----------------------------
James Samuel Killingsworth 1896----1968
Terrell F. Cannon 1901-1974
Alma Sherer Cannon 1901----1977 My first one teacher school teacher at Skimming Ridge. Fred McCaleb
Kathleen Cannon Thompson 1927-----1969
Mayfield babies
John E. Woodard Nov. 20, 1943----------------------
Margaret Linda Woodard April 15, 1945----July 19, 1997
Alton N. Woodard Nov. 14, 1904----May 23, 1973
Addie J. Woodard July 18, 1907---May 9, 1981
Exie Woodard June 30, 1890----September 28, 1964
S. J. Fowler 1879-----1964
Cemetery Northeast of the Church June 24, 2001
Hubert Milton Baker Son of Lynn and Mainda Baker May 11, 1909-------May 24, 1998
Lila Bay Baker Daughter of W.T. & Mary E. Clements Aug. 7, 1912----May 29, 1998
John Stovall--------------------------
Andrew Jeffrey Stovall May 11, 1972------Sep 13, 1986
Andrew Jackson (AG) Stovall June 2, 1938-----Jan. 1, 1993
Eben Jerome Porter S1 US Navy WW2 September 20, 1926----April 25, 2000
Louise Stovall May 4, 1926---------------------------
Mary S. Aldridge June 25, 1909------May 17, 1885
Pervie B. Aldridge July 26, 1912------September 26, 1992
Bertha Tucker March 24, 1906-----May 26, 1994
John L. Tucker May 17, 1905----Aug. 31, 1970
Geraldine Sims Goram September 21, 1930-----------------
Martha Jean Sims Jenkins Nov. 20, 1927----Jan. 3, 1995
Elsie Woodard Sims April 1, 1901------Dec. 6, 1986
Arthur Sims Pfc Mg Co. 322 Infantry World War 1 Jan 5, 1895-----Feb. 12, 1965
Albert T. Stovall Mar. 7, 1917-----Aug. 5, 1989
Ruthie Mae Stovall Nov. 18, 1920-------March 18,1995 Albert was elected 7 times to Fayette County Commission, served 28 years,
Highway 13 in Fayette County named for him, a frient to all
Harold Stovall June 27, 1939--------Oct. 10, 1965 The rose still grows beyond the wall Sp4 US 53345 905 Co C 2nd Bn 13th Inf
James W. Phillips Pvt US Army World War 2 Feb. 7, 1908------September 24, 1984
Maggie McCaleb Phillips Oct. 18, 1887------Feb. 12, 1983
J. Luther Phillips Jan. 16, 1888-------March 15, 1965
Brady E. Webster Oct. 21, 1907------Oct. 14, 1981
Euna B. Webster Dec. 9, 1911----Nov. 27, 1982
Jesse E. Woodard March 22, 1885-----Aug. 9, 1969
Bettie M. Woodard May 6, 1890----Oct. 15, 1981
Russell D. Stovall June 1, 1919----Jan 7, 2000 U.S. Army ww2
William Dale Stovall , Florida Pfc Co B 35th Inf 4th Inf Div. Vietnam BSM—PH June 11, 1948----Oct. 31, 1968
Dean Stovall Nov. 26, 1927----------------------
Henry W. Miles April 12, 1892------March 3, 1972
Carrie R. Miles Feb. 21, 1898----Oct. 23, 1974
Jack Wakefield Feb. 7, 1901----Jan. 7, 1989
Ruth Wakefield Oct. 5, 1903----July 3, 1980
Arnold Woodard Aug. 21, 1916----April 1, 1981 Married October 4, 1973
Catherine N. Woodard Dec. 30, 1927------------------------------
Clifton H. Stovall Pfc Army Air kForces WW2 Oct. 15, 1913------July 23, 1972
Eldon L. Stovall MSG U. S. Airforce WW2 Korea Aug 20, 1921------Jan. 23,1979
Helen J. Stovall June 3, 1928------------------
Harold R. Walters Nov. 21, 1915------Jan 29, 1982 Pfc US Army World War 2
Frances S. Walters Oct. 20, 1914----Aug. 15, 1985
]eremy Christopher Porter Dec. 1, 1969------April 26, 1990
Rayford Porter September 28, 1922-----Aug. 5, 2000
C.Mildred Porter May 5, 1923-----Jan. 24, 1990
Billie Mareia Farris Aug. 5, 1947-----July 2, 1992
Billy Ray Foster June 20, 1939------Dec. 28, 1992 Married April 20, 1961 Ruth 1: 16,17
Geraldine M. Foster Feb. 22, 1943----------------------------
Eldon Foster Dec. 8, 1911---------------------
Lillie Foster Dec. 19,1905-------April 2, 1972
Harold Killingsworth 1925--------1988
Beulah Killingsworth 1928-------1989
Copied June 24, 2001 by Fred McCaleb No guarantee that every inscription was copied correctly. Cemetery in NE Fayette, Co. Al.
About 5 or 6 miles below Eldridge, Al. Just to right of state highway 13 where a county road crosses. The old part was transcribed from work
Done in 1959 by Herb and Jeanie Newell. Herb is dead and Jeanie said it was OK for me to copy.
Hallmark, G. T.Harkey, mother -.b Feb. 22, 1866 - D. Jan. 6 1948
Hallmark W. H., father - B. Apr. 1, 1856 - D. Nov. 1, 1937
Woodard, Vester C. - D. July 21, 1958 - 66 Yrs. 6 mos. 21- Das. B Dec. 31, 1891
Flora L. Woodard b Feb. 15, 1896------May 4, 1964
Woodard, Stephen - B. May 21, 1835 - D. Feb. 5,. 1908
Woodard, Mrs. E. J., wife of Steven Woodard - B.Mar.16,1835 D. Dec.31,1921
Woodard, J. T., father - B. July 29, 1870 - D. Mar. I1, 1934
Woodard, Julia, mother - B. Mar. 20, 1875 - D. Apr. 28, 1940
Woodard, Martha J. - B. June 8, 1865 - D. June 6, 1941
Woodard, William Melton - B. Mar. 27, 1866 d. Apr. 21, 1939
Woodard, William Edward - B. Feb. 1, 1897 D. Sept. 11, 1936
Cannon, Terrell F., Jr., son of Terrel F. & Alma Cannon - B. 1929 D, 1942
Mayfield, Inf. of W.E. & M.J Mayfield - B. & D. Apr. 25, 1912
Mayfield, Inf. of Ed & M.Mayfield - B. & D. Jan. 27, 1924
Hallmark, J. M. B. Jan. 18, 1855 - D. June 6, 1916
Depoister, Susan B. Nov. 18, 1842 - D. Oct. 21, 1897
Depoister, R. J. S. Dec. 3, 1880 - D. Oct. 14, 1897
Woodard, Harold A. - B. Nov. 23, 1928 - D. July 2, 1930
Woodard, Floid, Inf. Son of John H. & Sallie Woodard - B.Sept.19,1892-D.Jan.1,1893
Woodard, Etta E., dau. of John H. & Sallie Woodard - B. Mar. 13,1896 -D. Sept. 23, 1913
Woodard, Sallie E. - B. Dec. 2, 1862 - D. Apr. 5, 1934
Woodard, John H. - B. Apr. 4, 1861 - D. Jan. 20, 1915
Woodard, Mamie S. - B. 1888 d 1955
Fowler, J. R. - B. 1871 - D. 1943
Fowler, Inf. of J.R. & S.J.Fowler - B. 1898 - D. 1898
*Killingsworth, Arms of James Samuel - Fingers of James Monroe 11:45 A.M. Friday
Oct. 19, 1903 - Cotton Gin
Killingsworth, The Son of J. M.. Killingsworth
Wedgeworth, Mrs. S. J. B. Oct. 4, 1814 - D. Feb. 14 -1887
Killingsworth, Mollie B. Dec. 5, 1869 - D. Jan. 1, 1936
Killingsworth, Charlie L. - B. Mar. 15, 1872 - D. Aug. 15, 1956
Killingsworth, Freeman - b. Aug. 6, 1830 - D. Aug. 14, or 24, 1883
Killingsworth, N\artho M - B. Dec. 11, 1813 - D 0 July 22, 1892
Killingsworth, James - D. Oct. 24, 1883 - Age 81 Yrs.
Wakefield, J. M. - Co. K. 4 Ala. Cav. - C.S.A. - B. Apr.12,1846 -D. Aug. 8, 1920
Mayo, James M. - B. Jan. 6, 1904 – D. Mar. 21, 1904
Bodds, Elizabeth - B. Aug. 30, 1827 - D. Feb. 22' 1889
Dobbs, J. H. B. Apr. 5, 1822 - D. July 2, 1899
Dobbs, Albert B. Oct. 13, 1835 - D. Mar. 16, 1912
Parker, J.H.M . - B. May 22, 1811 D. Aug. 31, 1893
P_____, S.M.F.- B. Apr. 15, 1879 D. Nov. 23, _____
Hoket, Mary A. B. Apr. 17, 1873 - D. 19_
Hoket, James C.B. Jan. 20, 1941 -
Sherer, Mary Lea B. Sept. 30, 1905 - D. Nov. 2, 1914
Dozier, Adeline B. 1840 - D. Aug. 7, 1906
Roby, M. M. wife of T.L.Roby - B. May 16, 1852 - D. Mar. 3, 1932 - mother
Roby, T. L. - B. Sept. 29, 1849 D. Dec. 22, 1898 ?
Roby, J. R. - B. Feb. 10, 1889D. Oct. 15, 1898
Roby, Noah - B. & D. Aug. 1897
Roby, bleiv. - B. & D. Aug. 1875
Hunt, Floyd A. - B. 1912 - D. 1956 - Ala. Pfc. 99 General Hosp. World War II (B. Sept. 2, 1912 - D. Oct. 11, 1956)
Killingsworth, Emma - B. 1879 - D. 19_
Killingsworth, Henry A. - B. 1876 - D. 1956
Killingsworth, H. K. - 80 Yrs. 4 fi\os. 23 Das.
Eason, Miss h\innie 6, - D. Jan. 3, 1959 - 86 Yrs. 2 Mos.
Killingsworth, W. J. - B. July I1, 1840 - D. Oct. 21, 1918
Woodard, Lewis F. - B. 1898 - D. 1952
Johnson, Sam E. - B. 1896 - D. 1958?
Johnson, Velma - B. 1894 - D. 1955
Johnson, Bethel - B. 1899 - D. 1952
Pickle, Minerva, mother - B. June 6, 1877
Pickle, A. J., father - B. Aug. 8, 1867 - D. Sept. 16,1942
Stubblefield, Sherrel Deann - B. Sept. 22, 1957 - D . June 13, 1956
Killingsworth, Mary , wife of W.O.Killingsworth - B. Sept. 6,1858-D.Nov.18,1883
Kelley, Dau. of J.E.O. & May Kelley - 25 Yrs. 2 Mos. 10 Das.
Tidwell, E. H., wife of J.C.Tidwell, dau. of J. & Mary.Kelly - B. Oct. 31, 1846
D. Aug. 28, 1873 - 24 Yrs. 9 Mos. 27 Das.
Depoister, C. A., son of J:.R..Depoister & Susan Depoister - B, Oct. 3, 1874 - D.
Nov. 23, 1876 - 2 Yrs. I Mo. 20 Das.
Townsend, Nancy V. E. - B. Jan. 24, 1870 - D. Mar. 5, 1915
Woodard, Wiley - B. Sept. 25, 1890 - D. Jan. 16, 1948
Woodard, George C. - B. 1868 - D. 1948
Woodard, Fannie - B. 1893 ----d. 1975
Woodard, Inf. of G.C. & S.F.Woodard - B. & D. Feb. 28, 1930
Woodard, Julia C. - B. Apr. 12, 1867 - D. June 10, 1922
Allred, George R., son of A.B. & M.E.Atired - B. Jan.B,.1915 d. Apr. 28, 1916
Killingsworth, Infants of C.W. & Ada Killingsworth - B. & D. (1) Dec. 8, 1922 (2) D. April 11, 1919
Killingsworth, Ada - B. 1895 - D. 1957
Killingsworth, Claudie - B. 16§3 - D. 1953
Fowler, S. J. - B. 1879 - D. 19----
Chafin, Edie - B. Aug. 29, 1886-- D. Mar. 13, 1888
Sherer, Gilder - B. 1880 - D. 1863
Sherer, Themanda B. - B. 1872 - D. 1876
Sherer, Joel C. - B. 1878 - D. 1901
Sherer, Charlie D. A. - B. 1867 - D. 1869
Eason, J. E. - B. Mar. 28, 1859 - D. Oct. 4, 1888
Dosier, W. D., to my husband - B. Aug. 19,, 1871 - D. Sept. 7, 1909
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Li.ilian Sherer B. Jan. 9, 1898
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Lillian Sherer B. Apr. 19, 1909
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Lilliaa Sherer B. Aug. 15, 1912
Sherer, John M - B. June 5, 1874 - D. Aug. 24, 1907
Sherer, Lillian - B. 1880 - D. 1943
Sherer, Ira E. - B. 1876 - D. 1952
Sherer, Johnathan D. - B. Sept. 6, 1842 - D. June 23, 1911
Sherer, Mary B. - B. April 10, 1846 - D. Arp. 1, 1911
Sherer, Christine Morrison - B. Oct. 30, 1907 - D. Oct. 26, 1909
Sherer, Noses Eason, Inf. Son of Dr. & Mrs. M.E.Sherer - B. May 22,1926-D.Aug.14,1926
Hunt, George A. b. 1900 d. 1907
Hunt, Clifteon B. 1915
Hunt, Ulysses F. B. 1935 D.
Wade, F.E. B. Jan 23, 1888 D. March 19, 1888
Additions June 24, 2001
Ralph H. Hunt Aug. 2, 1909-Jan 24, 1977
Isaac Newton Hunt Aug. 26, 1979—Nov. 12, 1966
Albetrt N. Hunt Jan. 11,, 1906---Oct. 22, 1987
Howard T. Hunt Jan 1`2, 1919-------Pfe US Army World War 2
Addie Lackey Hunt July 9, 1881-----Jan 20 1966
Rebeca H. Pratt Oct. 4, 1939-----Dec. 18, 2000
Melvine Hoket Apr. 9, 1884---Aug. 20, 1970
Lucille A. Sherer Campbell July 10, 1907----------------------
Claud S. Campbell June 15, 1902------September 3, 1996
Mary A. Hoket Apr. 17, 1873-----Jan. 29, 1974
James C. Hoket September 17, 1860---Jan 20, 1941
They were the sunshine of our home but now they are at rest.
Daly F. Dodd Oct. 1901-----Dec. 27, 1978
Effie I. Dodd Apr. 20, 1896-----Nov. 8, 1976
Minnie Woodard Feb 20, 1894----Oct. 11, 1979
Robert N. Wright Apr. 22, 1928------Apr. 9, 1994
Emma L Wright Apr. 6, 1931------------------------
Mother Minerva Pickle June 6, 1877------Mar. 7, 1960
Father A.J. Pickle Aug. 6, 1867-----September 16, 1942
Lester Stephen Woodard Apr. 1, 1907------July 8, 1992 US Army World War 2
Lewis F. Woodard Apr. 25, 1898-------Feb. 10, 1952
Michael L. Garner April 28, 1956----June 19, 1975
Fenton Hallmark April 3, 1893----July 4, 1985
Ida W. Hallmark July 23, 1887------March 26, 1976 Our lives to be continued, prepare to meet us in Heaven
Bryan Woodard September 6, 1900---April 19, 1985
Louise Woodard Dec. 29. 1908---April 5, 1985 In loving memory
Thomas L. Wells April 29, 1924----June 29, 1985
Mary E. Wells June 25, 1929--------------------------------
Ector Hallmark Sept 9, 1902-----1962
Pauline Hallmark April 4, 1907------April 27, 1944
Stephen Russell Woodard September 12, 1890—June 17, 1972 Gone but not forgotten
John L. Woodard June 30, 1921---Mar. 4, 1987
Evil L. Woodard Dec. 25, 1913-----March 9o, 1954
Pearl Anderson Mother Aug. 9, 1916------Aug. 28, 1994 We miss you mother
Cora Ethyl Killingsworth 1900----------------------------
James Samuel Killingsworth 1896----1968
Terrell F. Cannon 1901-1974
Alma Sherer Cannon 1901----1977 My first one teacher school teacher at Skimming Ridge. Fred McCaleb
Kathleen Cannon Thompson 1927-----1969
Mayfield babies
John E. Woodard Nov. 20, 1943----------------------
Margaret Linda Woodard April 15, 1945----July 19, 1997
Alton N. Woodard Nov. 14, 1904----May 23, 1973
Addie J. Woodard July 18, 1907---May 9, 1981
Exie Woodard June 30, 1890----September 28, 1964
S. J. Fowler 1879-----1964
Cemetery Northeast of the Church June 24, 2001
Hubert Milton Baker Son of Lynn and Mainda Baker May 11, 1909-------May 24, 1998
Lila Bay Baker Daughter of W.T. & Mary E. Clements Aug. 7, 1912----May 29, 1998
John Stovall--------------------------
Andrew Jeffrey Stovall May 11, 1972------Sep 13, 1986
Andrew Jackson (AG) Stovall June 2, 1938-----Jan. 1, 1993
Eben Jerome Porter S1 US Navy WW2 September 20, 1926----April 25, 2000
Louise Stovall May 4, 1926---------------------------
Mary S. Aldridge June 25, 1909------May 17, 1885
Pervie B. Aldridge July 26, 1912------September 26, 1992
Bertha Tucker March 24, 1906-----May 26, 1994
John L. Tucker May 17, 1905----Aug. 31, 1970
Geraldine Sims Goram September 21, 1930-----------------
Martha Jean Sims Jenkins Nov. 20, 1927----Jan. 3, 1995
Elsie Woodard Sims April 1, 1901------Dec. 6, 1986
Arthur Sims Pfc Mg Co. 322 Infantry World War 1 Jan 5, 1895-----Feb. 12, 1965
Albert T. Stovall Mar. 7, 1917-----Aug. 5, 1989
Ruthie Mae Stovall Nov. 18, 1920-------March 18,1995 Albert was elected 7 times to Fayette County Commission, served 28 years,
Highway 13 in Fayette County named for him, a frient to all
Harold Stovall June 27, 1939--------Oct. 10, 1965 The rose still grows beyond the wall Sp4 US 53345 905 Co C 2nd Bn 13th Inf
James W. Phillips Pvt US Army World War 2 Feb. 7, 1908------September 24, 1984
Maggie McCaleb Phillips Oct. 18, 1887------Feb. 12, 1983
J. Luther Phillips Jan. 16, 1888-------March 15, 1965
Brady E. Webster Oct. 21, 1907------Oct. 14, 1981
Euna B. Webster Dec. 9, 1911----Nov. 27, 1982
Jesse E. Woodard March 22, 1885-----Aug. 9, 1969
Bettie M. Woodard May 6, 1890----Oct. 15, 1981
Russell D. Stovall June 1, 1919----Jan 7, 2000 U.S. Army ww2
William Dale Stovall , Florida Pfc Co B 35th Inf 4th Inf Div. Vietnam BSM—PH June 11, 1948----Oct. 31, 1968
Dean Stovall Nov. 26, 1927----------------------
Henry W. Miles April 12, 1892------March 3, 1972
Carrie R. Miles Feb. 21, 1898----Oct. 23, 1974
Jack Wakefield Feb. 7, 1901----Jan. 7, 1989
Ruth Wakefield Oct. 5, 1903----July 3, 1980
Arnold Woodard Aug. 21, 1916----April 1, 1981 Married October 4, 1973
Catherine N. Woodard Dec. 30, 1927------------------------------
Clifton H. Stovall Pfc Army Air kForces WW2 Oct. 15, 1913------July 23, 1972
Eldon L. Stovall MSG U. S. Airforce WW2 Korea Aug 20, 1921------Jan. 23,1979
Helen J. Stovall June 3, 1928------------------
Harold R. Walters Nov. 21, 1915------Jan 29, 1982 Pfc US Army World War 2
Frances S. Walters Oct. 20, 1914----Aug. 15, 1985
]eremy Christopher Porter Dec. 1, 1969------April 26, 1990
Rayford Porter September 28, 1922-----Aug. 5, 2000
C.Mildred Porter May 5, 1923-----Jan. 24, 1990
Billie Mareia Farris Aug. 5, 1947-----July 2, 1992
Billy Ray Foster June 20, 1939------Dec. 28, 1992 Married April 20, 1961 Ruth 1: 16,17
Geraldine M. Foster Feb. 22, 1943----------------------------
Eldon Foster Dec. 8, 1911---------------------
Lillie Foster Dec. 19,1905-------April 2, 1972
Harold Killingsworth 1925--------1988
Beulah Killingsworth 1928-------1989
Copied June 24, 2001 by Fred McCaleb No guarantee that every inscription was copied correctly. Cemetery in NE Fayette, Co. Al.
About 5 or 6 miles below Eldridge, Al. Just to right of state highway 13 where a county road crosses. The old part was transcribed from work
Done in 1959 by Herb and Jeanie Newell. Herb is dead and Jeanie said it was OK for me to copy.
The Saga of William Bauck "Bill" Looney Aka Ol' Bill Looney & Old Black Fox
Written by: Leola Looney Hessom and Wesley S.
Thompson
Submitted by: Fred McCaleb
His name was William Bauck Looney, but everyone called him
Bill, or just Ol' Bill Looney. He was born in 1827 in Lawrence
County, Alabama just along the northeast border with Winston
County, near the intercepts of Morgan and Cullman counties.
Bill was the 11th child of Moses and Mary Guest Looney, both
born in Tennessee, married in Warren County, 1807. Moses
and his brother, John came down to northern Alabama with
Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, and when the war
was over, they returned to Tennessee and brought their families
back to Alabama, Moses settling in Lawrence County and John
in St. Clair County.
The life of Bill Looney seems to have been more or less
uneventful up until the time of the Civil War. He had left
Tennessee Valley for Winston County, and had married Senie
Ellen Penn, daughter of John Penn and wife Elizabeth Day
Penn. His just younger brother, Andreson Marion Looney (Sgt,
Company I, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA), married Senie's sister
Nancy Emily Penn, and Anderson and Nancy also settled in
Winston County. Other siblings of Bill and Anderson Loony
married into families that had prosperous farms in the fertile
Tennessee Valley which would lead them in the direction of the
Southern Cause, the protection of "property" and enlistment in
the Rebel Army.
Henrietta Looney, daughter of Anderson and grandmother to
Leola Looney Hessom was the teller of many Bill Looney
stories about "Uncle Bill," telling these stories over and over.
Leola explains that Henrietta's versions of the stories may
"differ some that from that of Professor Thompson, but they are
substantially the same."
In 1854 Bill Looney received through the Huntsville Land
Office, a plot of land in Winston County described as the SE1/4
of the SW1/4 of Sec 2 and the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Sec 10 in
TS 10 S, R 7 W, on Clifty Fork about four miles north of the
town of Houston, which at that time was the county seat of
Winston. Wesley Thompson's research indicates that this was
the location of Looney's Tavern.
Wes Thompson tells of the area-wide political meeting to
discuss the secession speculation and related issues which was
held at Looney's Tavern on July 4, 1861, and he points out the
desirability of this location for such a meeting. It was near the
intersection of the Burleson and Burnham roads. Burleson
Road connected westward to the Marion County seat of
Pikesville and the Burnham Road ran northward toward
Moulton, connecting with Cheatham's Road. This meeting
would be a festive social gathering occasion. However, there
would have been no indecent behavior, as Bill Looney would
not tolerate it on his property and he had a reputation for
enforcing his standards with a shotgun. This meeting became
famous for setting the stage for several of the north Alabama
counties, centered by Winston, to take up a strongly pro-Union
stance in the midst of a sea of emotional Confederate
sympathies. This meeting was the origin of the legend of the
"Free State of Winston" and later developed into possible
consideration of creating the state of "Nicajack" (after one of
the Cherokee Indian tribes) which was proposed to unite the
pro-Union sympathy counties of north Alabama with similiar
philosophy segments of Eastern Tennessee. Of course neither
of the fledgling proposals prevailed.
Bill Looney played an important role in the history of North
Alabama during the Civil War. When it became evident that the
people of Winston County and the surrounding areas were not
going to be left out of the conflict, many men in the area
decided that if they had to fight they would do so on the Union
side. One of the problems was how to get past the Confederate
lines into the Union Army encampments. Bill Looney was the
answer to that problem for many of the hill country men.
The pro-Union sympathies were much more widespread than
many today realize. And the makeup of men who served in the
1st Alabama Cavlary, organized specifically for these pro-Union
men reflects the widespread Union sentiment among the many
north Alabama counties. In a special Alabama State Convention
of 1861, the residents of Winston County had voted 477 - nil for
a Cooperationist Platform vs. a Secessionist Platform; indeed 22
other north Alabama counties also voted for the Cooperationist
position.
Although small, being just five feet tall, Looney was a man of
considerable strength and endurance. He was thin and wiry and
reportedly could do a standing jump over his horse.
He is said to have had black hair and dark eyes. Bill was an
expert tracker and knew the woods, caves, creeks, and bluffs,
all good hiding places, in north Alabama. And when those men
who desired to join the Union Army needed someone to guide
them through the maze of hills and hollows, Looney was the
one. After the war, Colonel George Spencer, CO of the 1st
Alabama Cavalry and congressman Chris Sheats, both testified
that the "Black Fox" had piloted more than 2500 (or 500?)
Confederate deserters (or pro-Union sympathizers) to Union
lines between 1862 and 1865.
Looney became a wanted man, with a price on his head. Large
rewards were offered both in terms of money and even a
permanent discharge from service for the one who could bring
him in dead or alive. He was captured several times but in each
instance either escaped or was rescued. He became known as
"The Black Fox." This name was probably given him because
of an association with a Cherokee Chief from the Guntersville
area called Black Fox in the early 1800s (1801-1811), who also
had the English name of "John Looney" and the Cherokee
name of Enoli. Bill Looney would have been about six years old
at the time of the Cherokee Removal from north Alabama when
Chief John Looney, aka Enoli & Black Fox, was removed into
western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. One of Bill's great
uncles, was Captain John Looney (Revolutionary War soldier)
who was captured by the Cherokees in March 1782 on the
southern branches of the Tennessee River, and may have left
some progeny behind when he was set free after a few weeks
of captivity.
Ol' Bill Looney was captured several times by the Rebs but was
never subdued. Upon his capture at one time, Looney was
placed in the custody of two officers. Rather than place him in
confinement they decided to keep him close to themselves to be
sure he didn't escape again. They took a room on the second
floor of a hotel. The room had two beds, one for each officer.
Looney was placed on the floor, tied with ropes and the ropes
tied to the beds. When the officers were asleep, Looney
worked constantly on the ropes and finally succeeded in freeing
himself. He tied blankets together and went out the window.
Upon reaching the ground, he picked up a piece of charcoal
and wrote on the wall of the building, "The Old Black Fox is
gone again."
Bill Looney developed a survival instinct that included a "quick
on the trigger" reaction. One account by Sgt. John R. Phillips,
was that he met Looney one day in Decatur and they were to
ride together down into the hills. Just west of Day's Gap, the
party met a man (Martin Stout) known by Looney to have
Confederate sympathies. Looney drew his pistol, shot and killed
the man without passing a word and left him where he lay.
When asked why he had shot the man, Looney replied that he
was one of the Rebs that tired to hang him in Decatur. Looney
said that if he ever laid eyes on him again, he would kill him.
Further westward, Looney, Phillips, and other members of the
party stopped to rest by a branch. While at the branch, the
party received an incoming volley of fire from hidden foes
which killed party members Phillip Sutton and a Carter boy.
Looney and other members of the party scattered, leaving
Phillips and Bill Elkins to fend off the Rebs, which they were
able to do. Looney had slipped away heading for a nearby
friend's house where he would hole up for the night.
On another occasion, five of the Union sympathizers had been
captured in a raid by the homeguard and been put in the jail at
Jasper, Alabama, with the ultimatum that they had five days to
make up their minds to join the CSA Army or be shot. Ol' Bill
was named to ride to the Union camp at Decatur and plea for
cavalry assistance to raid the Jasper jail and free the imprisoned
men. So soon thereafter, Bill appeared at the headquarters of
the Federal Army in Decatuor, tired and exhausted. Looney
spoke with General Mitchell; Looney got the detachment of 26
volunteers which he sought, led by Captain Anderson Ward of
Winston County and in a lightning quick raid, the five loyalists
were set free. As the entire detachment had only 14 horses and
mules, they had taken turns riding and walking down to Jasper.
The jail was burned and the jailer Gilbert Sides was hit by a
volley of about ten shots in the back as he ran away.
After the war, many people wanted to get revenge on Bill
Looney. One day after the war, a man came to Looney to tell
him that a man named Bill Eady had been going around telling
a story about Bill. The story was untrue, Bill said and the
informant who was blaming Eady knew the charge was a lie.
Looney then went looking for Bill Eady and when he found
him, he shot him. A few nights later, a contingent of
white-robed, masked members of the Ku Klux Klan entered
Looney's home and found him in bed. When they walked up to
his bed Looney asked "Where did you come from?" One of
them said, "We came straight from Hell." Looney drew his
pistol from beneath his pillow and, pointing it at the nearest
figure, inquired, "Did you see anything of old Bill Eady? I sent
him there a few days ago." The white robed figures silently
withdrew and never bothered him again.
No one ever told Bill Looney that he had murdered an innocent
man, for they knew that to do so would ensure the death of the
informant who lied. [Some of these stories have taken on
legendary status and some variations of these stories circulate
with different circumstances or completely different people, but
with essentially the same outcome.]
Bill Looney continued to live in the general area of Winston and
Lawrence Counties. Sometime during the war, Rebels had
staked out his Tavern and waited in hiding for several days.
When he failed to show up, they burned the Tavern. He stayed
in the area at least until 1870, probably living near his family in
Inmanfield, but after that, all track of him is lost.
Although Bill Looney was never officially enlisted in the US
Army, his role was one of a "spy," scout, and recruiter, all
performed without any pay. He applied for a pension but his
application was ignored since he had never officially enlisted. In
1867, congressman Chris Sheats, led a petition drive which
resulted in Bill Looney receiving a Congressional Citation and a
small pension by action of the 40th US Congress, 3rd Session
on February 8, 1869. This action was reported in the
Congressional Globe on May 12, 1870 pages 3430-3431. This
citation/pension effort was aided by the signatures of some 196
fellow fighters or sympathizers of the Union cause, including a
large number of officers of the 1st Alabama Cavalry.
It is told by some relatives that he went to Memphis, Tennessee
where one of his sisters was living. He and wife Senie Ellen
Penn Looney had a family of four children: Henry, Mary,
Anderson, and Sarah. After leaving Alabama, the family seems
to disappear with no trace. One rumor is that Ol' Bill the Black
Fox was finally outsmarted somewhere over in Mississippi, with
some indication that a man from Winston or Marion County
named Hyde had tracked him down and was instrumental in the
hanging of Bill Loony for injustices done during the war.
Perhaps this rumor is true but one almost has to believe that the
hero/villain that Old Black Fox had become, escapted with his
family into self-imposed silence. The spirit of the courageous,
resourceful, crafty, vengeful Old Black Fox lives on today in the
annual summer-long performances at the Looney's Tavern
Theater held just east of Double Springs, Alabama, on a hill-top
overlooking Looney's home - the "Free State of Winston" and
the larger province of "Nicajack." To this day Old Black Fox
can continue to be seen slipping silently through the "hills and
hollars" of his native land, leading a good neighbor to freedom,
to take up the valliant cause of the Union - forever.
Thompson
Submitted by: Fred McCaleb
His name was William Bauck Looney, but everyone called him
Bill, or just Ol' Bill Looney. He was born in 1827 in Lawrence
County, Alabama just along the northeast border with Winston
County, near the intercepts of Morgan and Cullman counties.
Bill was the 11th child of Moses and Mary Guest Looney, both
born in Tennessee, married in Warren County, 1807. Moses
and his brother, John came down to northern Alabama with
Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, and when the war
was over, they returned to Tennessee and brought their families
back to Alabama, Moses settling in Lawrence County and John
in St. Clair County.
The life of Bill Looney seems to have been more or less
uneventful up until the time of the Civil War. He had left
Tennessee Valley for Winston County, and had married Senie
Ellen Penn, daughter of John Penn and wife Elizabeth Day
Penn. His just younger brother, Andreson Marion Looney (Sgt,
Company I, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA), married Senie's sister
Nancy Emily Penn, and Anderson and Nancy also settled in
Winston County. Other siblings of Bill and Anderson Loony
married into families that had prosperous farms in the fertile
Tennessee Valley which would lead them in the direction of the
Southern Cause, the protection of "property" and enlistment in
the Rebel Army.
Henrietta Looney, daughter of Anderson and grandmother to
Leola Looney Hessom was the teller of many Bill Looney
stories about "Uncle Bill," telling these stories over and over.
Leola explains that Henrietta's versions of the stories may
"differ some that from that of Professor Thompson, but they are
substantially the same."
In 1854 Bill Looney received through the Huntsville Land
Office, a plot of land in Winston County described as the SE1/4
of the SW1/4 of Sec 2 and the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Sec 10 in
TS 10 S, R 7 W, on Clifty Fork about four miles north of the
town of Houston, which at that time was the county seat of
Winston. Wesley Thompson's research indicates that this was
the location of Looney's Tavern.
Wes Thompson tells of the area-wide political meeting to
discuss the secession speculation and related issues which was
held at Looney's Tavern on July 4, 1861, and he points out the
desirability of this location for such a meeting. It was near the
intersection of the Burleson and Burnham roads. Burleson
Road connected westward to the Marion County seat of
Pikesville and the Burnham Road ran northward toward
Moulton, connecting with Cheatham's Road. This meeting
would be a festive social gathering occasion. However, there
would have been no indecent behavior, as Bill Looney would
not tolerate it on his property and he had a reputation for
enforcing his standards with a shotgun. This meeting became
famous for setting the stage for several of the north Alabama
counties, centered by Winston, to take up a strongly pro-Union
stance in the midst of a sea of emotional Confederate
sympathies. This meeting was the origin of the legend of the
"Free State of Winston" and later developed into possible
consideration of creating the state of "Nicajack" (after one of
the Cherokee Indian tribes) which was proposed to unite the
pro-Union sympathy counties of north Alabama with similiar
philosophy segments of Eastern Tennessee. Of course neither
of the fledgling proposals prevailed.
Bill Looney played an important role in the history of North
Alabama during the Civil War. When it became evident that the
people of Winston County and the surrounding areas were not
going to be left out of the conflict, many men in the area
decided that if they had to fight they would do so on the Union
side. One of the problems was how to get past the Confederate
lines into the Union Army encampments. Bill Looney was the
answer to that problem for many of the hill country men.
The pro-Union sympathies were much more widespread than
many today realize. And the makeup of men who served in the
1st Alabama Cavlary, organized specifically for these pro-Union
men reflects the widespread Union sentiment among the many
north Alabama counties. In a special Alabama State Convention
of 1861, the residents of Winston County had voted 477 - nil for
a Cooperationist Platform vs. a Secessionist Platform; indeed 22
other north Alabama counties also voted for the Cooperationist
position.
Although small, being just five feet tall, Looney was a man of
considerable strength and endurance. He was thin and wiry and
reportedly could do a standing jump over his horse.
He is said to have had black hair and dark eyes. Bill was an
expert tracker and knew the woods, caves, creeks, and bluffs,
all good hiding places, in north Alabama. And when those men
who desired to join the Union Army needed someone to guide
them through the maze of hills and hollows, Looney was the
one. After the war, Colonel George Spencer, CO of the 1st
Alabama Cavalry and congressman Chris Sheats, both testified
that the "Black Fox" had piloted more than 2500 (or 500?)
Confederate deserters (or pro-Union sympathizers) to Union
lines between 1862 and 1865.
Looney became a wanted man, with a price on his head. Large
rewards were offered both in terms of money and even a
permanent discharge from service for the one who could bring
him in dead or alive. He was captured several times but in each
instance either escaped or was rescued. He became known as
"The Black Fox." This name was probably given him because
of an association with a Cherokee Chief from the Guntersville
area called Black Fox in the early 1800s (1801-1811), who also
had the English name of "John Looney" and the Cherokee
name of Enoli. Bill Looney would have been about six years old
at the time of the Cherokee Removal from north Alabama when
Chief John Looney, aka Enoli & Black Fox, was removed into
western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. One of Bill's great
uncles, was Captain John Looney (Revolutionary War soldier)
who was captured by the Cherokees in March 1782 on the
southern branches of the Tennessee River, and may have left
some progeny behind when he was set free after a few weeks
of captivity.
Ol' Bill Looney was captured several times by the Rebs but was
never subdued. Upon his capture at one time, Looney was
placed in the custody of two officers. Rather than place him in
confinement they decided to keep him close to themselves to be
sure he didn't escape again. They took a room on the second
floor of a hotel. The room had two beds, one for each officer.
Looney was placed on the floor, tied with ropes and the ropes
tied to the beds. When the officers were asleep, Looney
worked constantly on the ropes and finally succeeded in freeing
himself. He tied blankets together and went out the window.
Upon reaching the ground, he picked up a piece of charcoal
and wrote on the wall of the building, "The Old Black Fox is
gone again."
Bill Looney developed a survival instinct that included a "quick
on the trigger" reaction. One account by Sgt. John R. Phillips,
was that he met Looney one day in Decatur and they were to
ride together down into the hills. Just west of Day's Gap, the
party met a man (Martin Stout) known by Looney to have
Confederate sympathies. Looney drew his pistol, shot and killed
the man without passing a word and left him where he lay.
When asked why he had shot the man, Looney replied that he
was one of the Rebs that tired to hang him in Decatur. Looney
said that if he ever laid eyes on him again, he would kill him.
Further westward, Looney, Phillips, and other members of the
party stopped to rest by a branch. While at the branch, the
party received an incoming volley of fire from hidden foes
which killed party members Phillip Sutton and a Carter boy.
Looney and other members of the party scattered, leaving
Phillips and Bill Elkins to fend off the Rebs, which they were
able to do. Looney had slipped away heading for a nearby
friend's house where he would hole up for the night.
On another occasion, five of the Union sympathizers had been
captured in a raid by the homeguard and been put in the jail at
Jasper, Alabama, with the ultimatum that they had five days to
make up their minds to join the CSA Army or be shot. Ol' Bill
was named to ride to the Union camp at Decatur and plea for
cavalry assistance to raid the Jasper jail and free the imprisoned
men. So soon thereafter, Bill appeared at the headquarters of
the Federal Army in Decatuor, tired and exhausted. Looney
spoke with General Mitchell; Looney got the detachment of 26
volunteers which he sought, led by Captain Anderson Ward of
Winston County and in a lightning quick raid, the five loyalists
were set free. As the entire detachment had only 14 horses and
mules, they had taken turns riding and walking down to Jasper.
The jail was burned and the jailer Gilbert Sides was hit by a
volley of about ten shots in the back as he ran away.
After the war, many people wanted to get revenge on Bill
Looney. One day after the war, a man came to Looney to tell
him that a man named Bill Eady had been going around telling
a story about Bill. The story was untrue, Bill said and the
informant who was blaming Eady knew the charge was a lie.
Looney then went looking for Bill Eady and when he found
him, he shot him. A few nights later, a contingent of
white-robed, masked members of the Ku Klux Klan entered
Looney's home and found him in bed. When they walked up to
his bed Looney asked "Where did you come from?" One of
them said, "We came straight from Hell." Looney drew his
pistol from beneath his pillow and, pointing it at the nearest
figure, inquired, "Did you see anything of old Bill Eady? I sent
him there a few days ago." The white robed figures silently
withdrew and never bothered him again.
No one ever told Bill Looney that he had murdered an innocent
man, for they knew that to do so would ensure the death of the
informant who lied. [Some of these stories have taken on
legendary status and some variations of these stories circulate
with different circumstances or completely different people, but
with essentially the same outcome.]
Bill Looney continued to live in the general area of Winston and
Lawrence Counties. Sometime during the war, Rebels had
staked out his Tavern and waited in hiding for several days.
When he failed to show up, they burned the Tavern. He stayed
in the area at least until 1870, probably living near his family in
Inmanfield, but after that, all track of him is lost.
Although Bill Looney was never officially enlisted in the US
Army, his role was one of a "spy," scout, and recruiter, all
performed without any pay. He applied for a pension but his
application was ignored since he had never officially enlisted. In
1867, congressman Chris Sheats, led a petition drive which
resulted in Bill Looney receiving a Congressional Citation and a
small pension by action of the 40th US Congress, 3rd Session
on February 8, 1869. This action was reported in the
Congressional Globe on May 12, 1870 pages 3430-3431. This
citation/pension effort was aided by the signatures of some 196
fellow fighters or sympathizers of the Union cause, including a
large number of officers of the 1st Alabama Cavalry.
It is told by some relatives that he went to Memphis, Tennessee
where one of his sisters was living. He and wife Senie Ellen
Penn Looney had a family of four children: Henry, Mary,
Anderson, and Sarah. After leaving Alabama, the family seems
to disappear with no trace. One rumor is that Ol' Bill the Black
Fox was finally outsmarted somewhere over in Mississippi, with
some indication that a man from Winston or Marion County
named Hyde had tracked him down and was instrumental in the
hanging of Bill Loony for injustices done during the war.
Perhaps this rumor is true but one almost has to believe that the
hero/villain that Old Black Fox had become, escapted with his
family into self-imposed silence. The spirit of the courageous,
resourceful, crafty, vengeful Old Black Fox lives on today in the
annual summer-long performances at the Looney's Tavern
Theater held just east of Double Springs, Alabama, on a hill-top
overlooking Looney's home - the "Free State of Winston" and
the larger province of "Nicajack." To this day Old Black Fox
can continue to be seen slipping silently through the "hills and
hollars" of his native land, leading a good neighbor to freedom,
to take up the valliant cause of the Union - forever.
Friday, April 17, 2009
CHRISTMAS LETTER 2003
by
Fred McCaleb
This is to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy new year. We haven’t done any traveling past Fayette and Winfield, Al. Which are ten and twelve miles away. I am 87 years old and hope to make it to 88. So will write a little about my passage through life.
I was born in 1916 in the brushbroom area before the use of lawnmowers to cut the grass. A family trying to have their yard looking good on Saturday would have it swept with a dogwood brushbroom. The husband or grandparent had this done with sons or grandsons if they were around. Chickens had the grass already eaten and there was just chicken manure, trash and the ground to sweep. The chickens laid eggs for the family to eat and to swap to a peddler or country store for salt, soda, matches and other little things.
The fastest way of travel was by T Model Fords that cost $400-500 but only very few of the well to do had them. They had to be driven on a dirt road and got stuck if it came a rain. John Tyler McCaleb had one before 1916 but had to use mule or horse power to keep it unstuck. Our family’s fastest way of travel was walking or by mules and wagon. For distant travel the passenger train was available but we didn’t have much money for that. The wagon roads were all unnumbered and graveled and the streams had to be forded instead of crossing on a million dollar bridge.There were narrow wooden bridges across the big streams that cost $500 or less to build. Every land owner that couldn’t pay road tax was required to work on the road several days a year. All our able bodied ancesters helped build roads.
My schooling was in a one teacher church schoolbuilding until 1925. The transportation to school was walking. At the Skimming Ridge school there was a one bannister footlog that spanned Boxes Creek that my dad and Ector Killingsworth had constructed. I never fell off of it but one of my cousins Ola Killingsworth fell just at the edge of the water and skinned her head. The second one teacher one was Clover Hill through half the third grade. That was in the fall of 1925. We moved that year to between Nettleton and Shannon, Ms. And they had a good school there. I failed the third grade under Mrs. Carter. I never failed a grade level after that. We had to walk to school at Shannon. We walked on until 1931 when we moved back to west Fayette County, Al. The toilets were outside. One for the boys and one for the girls in a different direction.
Some of the playthings we had back then was a click and wheel. The wheel was a rim off wooden hub of wagon and the click was a U bent in a heavy wire to make the wheel roll. I had right much fun with that. I tried to do everything my dad did include cut with a chopping ax. Nearly cut the end of my little finger off with that. My dad let us use any of the tools he had and that made me glad. Had to make most of my toys except one little red wagon. It tore up in a month or two and my dad never bought any more toys for me. My grandpa let me plow with a turning plow pulled with his mule when we lived there in 1925. I thought that was the greatest thing I had ever done. There were radios around in the late 1920s but we didn’t own one. My mother did her washing once a week with two tubs and a washpot to heat the water. She got the water from a branch at Grandpa McCalebs when the water was clear. That was a hard job for her. There was no electricity or automatic washing machine and dryer. We had what had been an artesian well in Ms. Which provided good clear water. It had a pitcher pump to raise the water. There was a small water branch that ran between our shack and the well. I was riding one of our mules to water her. Something stung her and she threw me into the water in the branch.
Health care was sort of crude in the 1920s and 30s. My mother was our main doctor. She had a remedy for everything. Some of it must have worked on me or I had plenty of resistance or something. If you took pneumonia though you were a goner most of the time. My grandpa Hallmark died with it in 1927. I recollect being there and his son Arthur trying to give him some sort of medicine. He was already too weak to take it and died the next day. There was no penicillin or sulfa drugs at that time. My little brother two year old Raburn died with membrane croup the same year. He just choked out and couldn’t breathe. Her nursing sister died in Fla. That same year. Things were very sad that year for mother. My brother Hubert didn’t want to go to school at Clover Hill at first. My mother gave him a dose of castor oil and he never got sick at school again. So some of her remedies worked.
The past was an entirely different scene from the post WW2 area. The family got electricity about 1946 or 47. Radios, refrigerators, and electric lights were available to replace the kerosene. Farm tractors replaced mules over the next 20 years. The price for one went from $2000 to around $100000 by 2000. Only the wealthy or credit worthy man can even start to farm now. The small farms have almost totally disappeared. Most of the farmers prior to WW2 grew thier own food with a pair of $300 mules. They made $400 to $500 per year but at least they ate during the great depression. How will they fare during a similar depression? This question worries me.
Fred McCaleb
Fred McCaleb
This is to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy new year. We haven’t done any traveling past Fayette and Winfield, Al. Which are ten and twelve miles away. I am 87 years old and hope to make it to 88. So will write a little about my passage through life.
I was born in 1916 in the brushbroom area before the use of lawnmowers to cut the grass. A family trying to have their yard looking good on Saturday would have it swept with a dogwood brushbroom. The husband or grandparent had this done with sons or grandsons if they were around. Chickens had the grass already eaten and there was just chicken manure, trash and the ground to sweep. The chickens laid eggs for the family to eat and to swap to a peddler or country store for salt, soda, matches and other little things.
The fastest way of travel was by T Model Fords that cost $400-500 but only very few of the well to do had them. They had to be driven on a dirt road and got stuck if it came a rain. John Tyler McCaleb had one before 1916 but had to use mule or horse power to keep it unstuck. Our family’s fastest way of travel was walking or by mules and wagon. For distant travel the passenger train was available but we didn’t have much money for that. The wagon roads were all unnumbered and graveled and the streams had to be forded instead of crossing on a million dollar bridge.There were narrow wooden bridges across the big streams that cost $500 or less to build. Every land owner that couldn’t pay road tax was required to work on the road several days a year. All our able bodied ancesters helped build roads.
My schooling was in a one teacher church schoolbuilding until 1925. The transportation to school was walking. At the Skimming Ridge school there was a one bannister footlog that spanned Boxes Creek that my dad and Ector Killingsworth had constructed. I never fell off of it but one of my cousins Ola Killingsworth fell just at the edge of the water and skinned her head. The second one teacher one was Clover Hill through half the third grade. That was in the fall of 1925. We moved that year to between Nettleton and Shannon, Ms. And they had a good school there. I failed the third grade under Mrs. Carter. I never failed a grade level after that. We had to walk to school at Shannon. We walked on until 1931 when we moved back to west Fayette County, Al. The toilets were outside. One for the boys and one for the girls in a different direction.
Some of the playthings we had back then was a click and wheel. The wheel was a rim off wooden hub of wagon and the click was a U bent in a heavy wire to make the wheel roll. I had right much fun with that. I tried to do everything my dad did include cut with a chopping ax. Nearly cut the end of my little finger off with that. My dad let us use any of the tools he had and that made me glad. Had to make most of my toys except one little red wagon. It tore up in a month or two and my dad never bought any more toys for me. My grandpa let me plow with a turning plow pulled with his mule when we lived there in 1925. I thought that was the greatest thing I had ever done. There were radios around in the late 1920s but we didn’t own one. My mother did her washing once a week with two tubs and a washpot to heat the water. She got the water from a branch at Grandpa McCalebs when the water was clear. That was a hard job for her. There was no electricity or automatic washing machine and dryer. We had what had been an artesian well in Ms. Which provided good clear water. It had a pitcher pump to raise the water. There was a small water branch that ran between our shack and the well. I was riding one of our mules to water her. Something stung her and she threw me into the water in the branch.
Health care was sort of crude in the 1920s and 30s. My mother was our main doctor. She had a remedy for everything. Some of it must have worked on me or I had plenty of resistance or something. If you took pneumonia though you were a goner most of the time. My grandpa Hallmark died with it in 1927. I recollect being there and his son Arthur trying to give him some sort of medicine. He was already too weak to take it and died the next day. There was no penicillin or sulfa drugs at that time. My little brother two year old Raburn died with membrane croup the same year. He just choked out and couldn’t breathe. Her nursing sister died in Fla. That same year. Things were very sad that year for mother. My brother Hubert didn’t want to go to school at Clover Hill at first. My mother gave him a dose of castor oil and he never got sick at school again. So some of her remedies worked.
The past was an entirely different scene from the post WW2 area. The family got electricity about 1946 or 47. Radios, refrigerators, and electric lights were available to replace the kerosene. Farm tractors replaced mules over the next 20 years. The price for one went from $2000 to around $100000 by 2000. Only the wealthy or credit worthy man can even start to farm now. The small farms have almost totally disappeared. Most of the farmers prior to WW2 grew thier own food with a pair of $300 mules. They made $400 to $500 per year but at least they ate during the great depression. How will they fare during a similar depression? This question worries me.
Fred McCaleb
Thursday, October 30, 2008
More of Nick Morris Diaries by Fred
Nick Morris Diary Necrology 1913-1930 by Fred McCaleb
1913 June 19 Mrs. Butler
1914 Feb. 21 Reedy Boz
28 Josie Davis baby died
Mar. 2 George Wakefield
3 Josie’s baby 10 days old died
April 2 D. C. Whitehead
2 Mrs. Emma Ehl
1915 Jan. 24 Emma Williams Dau. Born
July 16 Made coffin for Gen Davis
Sept. 16 Babe of J. R. Hiten died
30 Dau. Born to Lane & Cora Morris
Nov. 20 Helped bury Tim McCaleb’s little girl
1916 April 15 George Kelly
1917 Oct. 31 J. Jones Haney
Dec. 21 Fred Ervin Friend of my dad. I may have been named for
Jan. 22 Mrs. Minda Harkness
May 12 Helped bury Larry’s baby
April 8 Mrs. Wiley Hollingsworth
12 Frank Smith of Okla.
Aug. 11 George Caddell
1918 Feb 1 D. M Harkins
D. M. Patterson
June 1 Mrs Sam Clark
18 Helped bury Lonzo White
Lonzo Baby Buried
12 Mrs Sam Clark
Oct 12 Helped make coffin for George Grigg
12 Bage Caddell
Dec 13 Don Sprinkle
1919 Feb 10 J. R. Anthony
June 15 Mary Guess
1920 April 14 Mrs Weavers baby
July 19 H. S. McArthur
Dec 11 J. J. Jones
1921 Jan 1 John E Tucker
Feb 30 W. A. Lee
1921 May 16 G. D. Wakefield
July 28 Baby born to Zilpah Clark
Aug 8 Mc Baby buried
15 Kilby & Vergie Corpreys baby
Oct 15 Hassie Nichols
31 G. W. McDonald
1922 Jan 16 Old lady Gann
Mar 11 Ras Tidwell
May 7 Son Born to Cora Morris
Sept 30 Isaac Perry
Nov 15 Nick Whitehead
1 Shirley Artory ?
1923 Feb 25 Tinie Had boy last night
Apr 1 Bud Williams
Aug 7 J. B. Whitehead of Brilliant
July 2 President Warren G. Harding of Ca.
Aug 7 Mrs Don McDonald
Nov 24 John M Barnes
Dec 25 Mrs Icy McCaleb
12 May McDonald from falling tree
1924 Jan 30 Lois Anthony
Feb 20 Mrs Pender
2 Woodrow Wilson
Mar 15 Frank Tidwell
Apr 19 Mrs W. W. Kelly
26 Mrs Sophia Walker
June 21 Mrs Ann Haney
3 Alex McCaleb
Nov 7 Mary Whitehead
1925 Feb 26 Josie Davis
June 5 James E. Early Bham.
Oct 31 Henry Aldridge
Nov 20 Joe Wakefield
22 R. P. Caine died in Fayette
1926 Feb 16 Helped bury Ethel Whitehead
27 Helped Make coffin for Miss Annie Phillips
Mar 7 Mr. Pierce Hubbard
4 T. D. Davis Married
April 13 Bettie Smith died
May 4 Car wreck killed someone
June 4 H. B. Moore in Tex.
1926 July 4 Mrs Wakefield by lightning
5 Susie McDonald died last night
Ervin Whitson electrocuted (no Date)
27 Tim McCaleb died ( I ate My first grapefruit at Tims)
Oct 4 Conley Berry died 3 AM
1927 Jan 21 Myrtice McCaleb died
May 10 J. F. Whitehead
Aug 11 Ruth died this am
Oct 9 Babe of Mrs. John Norris
1928 Jan 21 J.F. Aldridge dies
Feb 2 Rhinalda Jones son died
23 W.H. Billy McCaleb died at noon
April 28 J. R. Baccus
May 7 Bashie Perrys funeral
Aug 18 Ida Harris
19 Ida and babe buried
Oct 5 Josie born+
1929 Jan 25 Senator O. W. Underwood
June 17 J. N. Sprinkle died suddenly
July 8 J. T. Box
Aug 13 J. M. Haney at Haleyville
28 Lillie Roby
Oct 29 Rosalee Ervin I believe lst buried White’s Chapel
29 Preacher J. M. Wade
Nov 24 Sandy Flippo
Dec 23 Joe E McDonald
20 Roy Elliott
1930 Jan 4 Mrs O. C. Dobbs
Mar 23 Nick Morris (Author Went to Jasper Hospital diagnosed
With prostrate cancer by Dr. Hollis of Winfield and that’s all he wrote. Said
he
was there 2 wks. He must have got back home unable to write. Don’t know when
he died. I was glad to bring his deaths up to 1930 as he hadn’t done that. I
guess
he hoped to live many more years much as people today do. I didn’t know the
last names of some of the ones he called by first names. He would have done
better
He lived up to the main entrance to the high speed auto ago. His wife and
daughter hade a ride to Berea Church in sons 2 door Ford Sedan. He had helped
paint a Ford truck or two and son had wrecked one truck. He had driven a
delivery truck for a company he worked for. Dr. Barsele was one of the dentists
back then. They didn’t patch teeth back then. If it got infected and hurting
the
remedy was to extract. Dentists were feared. Dr. Green Was another Dr. which I
don’t know what kind. He saw an airplane pass over. I saw one of the early
dare devil sort of planes fly at Winfield in cow pasture while at Winfield
High School. They flew upside down and every other way imaginable. A big cotton
mill was built in the pasture and it moved to a foreign country 10 or 20 years
ago. Nick attended all political rallies and elections. He was interested in
the school at Glen Allen, helped build it and upkeep , took census of students
that would attend. He and family went mainly to churches at Berea, Elam, and
Clover Hill. Went a few times to White’s Chapel, to New River, to
Hubbardville, to Glen Allen and to the black church above Bazemore. Many of the
times he would tell who was preaching. He hardly ever went many times to same
church before trying another one.
He and my grandpa’s brother Bird McCaleb visited at least once a week.I never
did figure out why. Bird didn’t work at toiling or do any for Nick. Nick must
have gone for advice or to sell Bird something like making out mortgages for
him. Bird’s children helped Nick pick cotton and do other things. A. C.
Alfred McCaleb later lived somewhere near Nick
Cotton sold for 5 1/2 c per lb in 1909, 7c lb 1914, 12C 1912, up to about 20c
1918, up a little in 1920 and down to about 5c in depression days of 30s. It
has been above 60c per lb in the 1990s and later. Sort of slumps very badly
with depressions.
Nick stripped cane, made molasses, pulled fodder, gathered corn and picked
cotton in the fall until the last years of his life. Early in the spring he
broke up land the old fashioned way with mules and turning plows. Women and
children hoed millet, corn, cotton and garden. They also fed mules, slopped the
hogs, milked cows. Nick got to where he helped his wife wash the clothes in his
last. His wife seemed to go places to visit on her own.
I will try to mention some of the places he went to store and to mill. They were
Hollingsworth store, William Ervins shop to help make coffins, to stave mill in
Glen Allen to work and hauled strips for wood, to gin in Glen Allen, Beasley
store, Raspberry sawmill, Curt Hubbards, to corn grinding mill in Glen Allen or
Bazemore, Tilly sawmill, Tom Perry mill, Kelly multiple mills in Bazemore and to
Winfield many times.
Nick’s house seemed to be open to all that wished to visit, especially his
children, to William Ervin, Bird McCaleb and children, politicians, and
seemingly to all. No one goes much further than the TV set today. He was
willing to help most anyone in trouble, to make a coffin or dig a grave. He was
a center of news and complained of being too sick to work many times in thee 15s
and 20s. He helped repair phone lines, put in phones, went to Winfield for
batteries, put in relay stations, dig well at Berea, repaired church benches,
hauled many loads of wood by mule and wagon and at last strips by truck, took
cane to molasses maker, helped with Kelly school, to U. S. court in Bham. For 3
weeks out of one month, talked about a big whiskey still raid at Austin
McDonalds and the agent accidentally wounding self with gun and no trial, WW1
registration and hostilities ceasing, split boards and repaired roof on own
house and outbuildings, attended most all elections, worked on road maps,
watched boys cut bee tree for honey, saw the 1920 census enumerator, moved for
about a month to near Jasper and worked in store, and then came back, worked in
stores in Glen Allen & Bazemore, adjusted and cleaned gin saws and gristmill
rocks, family reunion at Glen Allen, tick eradication law, half soled shoes,
helped eat a possum, said what weather was most every day, told about dry
spells, about a railway boiler explosion, about wife Bip’s nearly a month
trip to Texas, about Virgil Whitehead moving to Neddleton,Ms. And Virgil coming
back to visit and Nick going to Ms. To visit one other and Virgil, to all day
singings at different churches and at Curt Hubbards, about his wife selling
about 40 acres of land for 25 dollars and 2 years to pay, about big protracted
meetings and how many saved, about peddler Sprinkle, about hanging of Harry
Mark of Fayette, about writing Senator John B Bankhaed and brother
Reprasentative William Bankhead big congressmen in his late years and my
early time, about son in law Dock and Jenny Hollings leaving for Ark. Oct. 7,
1925 and 1927 Jennie back for a while, then Nick and wife went to visit Ark.
For about a month and there seemed to be no bad feelings toward each. They had
been faithful to visit all through the years. Nick seemed to hold no bad
feelings against anyone. He was just too busy most of the time. There were 2 or
3 places where he seemed to be referring to my grandpa McCaleb. After 1927
Cover Hill was moved to about a ½ mile away and is now Tidwell Chapel and
White’s Chapel started by Jerry White. There seemed to have been no argument.
Some of this data is not done too well but it’s my best at 92 years old. I
salute Nick Morris for telling what it was like in first part of 20th century.
Done by Fred McCaleb.
1913 June 19 Mrs. Butler
1914 Feb. 21 Reedy Boz
28 Josie Davis baby died
Mar. 2 George Wakefield
3 Josie’s baby 10 days old died
April 2 D. C. Whitehead
2 Mrs. Emma Ehl
1915 Jan. 24 Emma Williams Dau. Born
July 16 Made coffin for Gen Davis
Sept. 16 Babe of J. R. Hiten died
30 Dau. Born to Lane & Cora Morris
Nov. 20 Helped bury Tim McCaleb’s little girl
1916 April 15 George Kelly
1917 Oct. 31 J. Jones Haney
Dec. 21 Fred Ervin Friend of my dad. I may have been named for
Jan. 22 Mrs. Minda Harkness
May 12 Helped bury Larry’s baby
April 8 Mrs. Wiley Hollingsworth
12 Frank Smith of Okla.
Aug. 11 George Caddell
1918 Feb 1 D. M Harkins
D. M. Patterson
June 1 Mrs Sam Clark
18 Helped bury Lonzo White
Lonzo Baby Buried
12 Mrs Sam Clark
Oct 12 Helped make coffin for George Grigg
12 Bage Caddell
Dec 13 Don Sprinkle
1919 Feb 10 J. R. Anthony
June 15 Mary Guess
1920 April 14 Mrs Weavers baby
July 19 H. S. McArthur
Dec 11 J. J. Jones
1921 Jan 1 John E Tucker
Feb 30 W. A. Lee
1921 May 16 G. D. Wakefield
July 28 Baby born to Zilpah Clark
Aug 8 Mc Baby buried
15 Kilby & Vergie Corpreys baby
Oct 15 Hassie Nichols
31 G. W. McDonald
1922 Jan 16 Old lady Gann
Mar 11 Ras Tidwell
May 7 Son Born to Cora Morris
Sept 30 Isaac Perry
Nov 15 Nick Whitehead
1 Shirley Artory ?
1923 Feb 25 Tinie Had boy last night
Apr 1 Bud Williams
Aug 7 J. B. Whitehead of Brilliant
July 2 President Warren G. Harding of Ca.
Aug 7 Mrs Don McDonald
Nov 24 John M Barnes
Dec 25 Mrs Icy McCaleb
12 May McDonald from falling tree
1924 Jan 30 Lois Anthony
Feb 20 Mrs Pender
2 Woodrow Wilson
Mar 15 Frank Tidwell
Apr 19 Mrs W. W. Kelly
26 Mrs Sophia Walker
June 21 Mrs Ann Haney
3 Alex McCaleb
Nov 7 Mary Whitehead
1925 Feb 26 Josie Davis
June 5 James E. Early Bham.
Oct 31 Henry Aldridge
Nov 20 Joe Wakefield
22 R. P. Caine died in Fayette
1926 Feb 16 Helped bury Ethel Whitehead
27 Helped Make coffin for Miss Annie Phillips
Mar 7 Mr. Pierce Hubbard
4 T. D. Davis Married
April 13 Bettie Smith died
May 4 Car wreck killed someone
June 4 H. B. Moore in Tex.
1926 July 4 Mrs Wakefield by lightning
5 Susie McDonald died last night
Ervin Whitson electrocuted (no Date)
27 Tim McCaleb died ( I ate My first grapefruit at Tims)
Oct 4 Conley Berry died 3 AM
1927 Jan 21 Myrtice McCaleb died
May 10 J. F. Whitehead
Aug 11 Ruth died this am
Oct 9 Babe of Mrs. John Norris
1928 Jan 21 J.F. Aldridge dies
Feb 2 Rhinalda Jones son died
23 W.H. Billy McCaleb died at noon
April 28 J. R. Baccus
May 7 Bashie Perrys funeral
Aug 18 Ida Harris
19 Ida and babe buried
Oct 5 Josie born+
1929 Jan 25 Senator O. W. Underwood
June 17 J. N. Sprinkle died suddenly
July 8 J. T. Box
Aug 13 J. M. Haney at Haleyville
28 Lillie Roby
Oct 29 Rosalee Ervin I believe lst buried White’s Chapel
29 Preacher J. M. Wade
Nov 24 Sandy Flippo
Dec 23 Joe E McDonald
20 Roy Elliott
1930 Jan 4 Mrs O. C. Dobbs
Mar 23 Nick Morris (Author Went to Jasper Hospital diagnosed
With prostrate cancer by Dr. Hollis of Winfield and that’s all he wrote. Said
he
was there 2 wks. He must have got back home unable to write. Don’t know when
he died. I was glad to bring his deaths up to 1930 as he hadn’t done that. I
guess
he hoped to live many more years much as people today do. I didn’t know the
last names of some of the ones he called by first names. He would have done
better
He lived up to the main entrance to the high speed auto ago. His wife and
daughter hade a ride to Berea Church in sons 2 door Ford Sedan. He had helped
paint a Ford truck or two and son had wrecked one truck. He had driven a
delivery truck for a company he worked for. Dr. Barsele was one of the dentists
back then. They didn’t patch teeth back then. If it got infected and hurting
the
remedy was to extract. Dentists were feared. Dr. Green Was another Dr. which I
don’t know what kind. He saw an airplane pass over. I saw one of the early
dare devil sort of planes fly at Winfield in cow pasture while at Winfield
High School. They flew upside down and every other way imaginable. A big cotton
mill was built in the pasture and it moved to a foreign country 10 or 20 years
ago. Nick attended all political rallies and elections. He was interested in
the school at Glen Allen, helped build it and upkeep , took census of students
that would attend. He and family went mainly to churches at Berea, Elam, and
Clover Hill. Went a few times to White’s Chapel, to New River, to
Hubbardville, to Glen Allen and to the black church above Bazemore. Many of the
times he would tell who was preaching. He hardly ever went many times to same
church before trying another one.
He and my grandpa’s brother Bird McCaleb visited at least once a week.I never
did figure out why. Bird didn’t work at toiling or do any for Nick. Nick must
have gone for advice or to sell Bird something like making out mortgages for
him. Bird’s children helped Nick pick cotton and do other things. A. C.
Alfred McCaleb later lived somewhere near Nick
Cotton sold for 5 1/2 c per lb in 1909, 7c lb 1914, 12C 1912, up to about 20c
1918, up a little in 1920 and down to about 5c in depression days of 30s. It
has been above 60c per lb in the 1990s and later. Sort of slumps very badly
with depressions.
Nick stripped cane, made molasses, pulled fodder, gathered corn and picked
cotton in the fall until the last years of his life. Early in the spring he
broke up land the old fashioned way with mules and turning plows. Women and
children hoed millet, corn, cotton and garden. They also fed mules, slopped the
hogs, milked cows. Nick got to where he helped his wife wash the clothes in his
last. His wife seemed to go places to visit on her own.
I will try to mention some of the places he went to store and to mill. They were
Hollingsworth store, William Ervins shop to help make coffins, to stave mill in
Glen Allen to work and hauled strips for wood, to gin in Glen Allen, Beasley
store, Raspberry sawmill, Curt Hubbards, to corn grinding mill in Glen Allen or
Bazemore, Tilly sawmill, Tom Perry mill, Kelly multiple mills in Bazemore and to
Winfield many times.
Nick’s house seemed to be open to all that wished to visit, especially his
children, to William Ervin, Bird McCaleb and children, politicians, and
seemingly to all. No one goes much further than the TV set today. He was
willing to help most anyone in trouble, to make a coffin or dig a grave. He was
a center of news and complained of being too sick to work many times in thee 15s
and 20s. He helped repair phone lines, put in phones, went to Winfield for
batteries, put in relay stations, dig well at Berea, repaired church benches,
hauled many loads of wood by mule and wagon and at last strips by truck, took
cane to molasses maker, helped with Kelly school, to U. S. court in Bham. For 3
weeks out of one month, talked about a big whiskey still raid at Austin
McDonalds and the agent accidentally wounding self with gun and no trial, WW1
registration and hostilities ceasing, split boards and repaired roof on own
house and outbuildings, attended most all elections, worked on road maps,
watched boys cut bee tree for honey, saw the 1920 census enumerator, moved for
about a month to near Jasper and worked in store, and then came back, worked in
stores in Glen Allen & Bazemore, adjusted and cleaned gin saws and gristmill
rocks, family reunion at Glen Allen, tick eradication law, half soled shoes,
helped eat a possum, said what weather was most every day, told about dry
spells, about a railway boiler explosion, about wife Bip’s nearly a month
trip to Texas, about Virgil Whitehead moving to Neddleton,Ms. And Virgil coming
back to visit and Nick going to Ms. To visit one other and Virgil, to all day
singings at different churches and at Curt Hubbards, about his wife selling
about 40 acres of land for 25 dollars and 2 years to pay, about big protracted
meetings and how many saved, about peddler Sprinkle, about hanging of Harry
Mark of Fayette, about writing Senator John B Bankhaed and brother
Reprasentative William Bankhead big congressmen in his late years and my
early time, about son in law Dock and Jenny Hollings leaving for Ark. Oct. 7,
1925 and 1927 Jennie back for a while, then Nick and wife went to visit Ark.
For about a month and there seemed to be no bad feelings toward each. They had
been faithful to visit all through the years. Nick seemed to hold no bad
feelings against anyone. He was just too busy most of the time. There were 2 or
3 places where he seemed to be referring to my grandpa McCaleb. After 1927
Cover Hill was moved to about a ½ mile away and is now Tidwell Chapel and
White’s Chapel started by Jerry White. There seemed to have been no argument.
Some of this data is not done too well but it’s my best at 92 years old. I
salute Nick Morris for telling what it was like in first part of 20th century.
Done by Fred McCaleb.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Unhappy Americans
submitted by Fred
"The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I
found rather hard to believe. It must be true, given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the
direction the country is headed, and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with
the performance of the President. In essence, 2/3's of the citizenry just
ain't happy and want a change.
So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What are we so unhappy
about?''
Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and
heating in the winter?
Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time, and see more
food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?
Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?
Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way
that can provide temporary shelter?
I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the
world is just not good enough.
Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and
provide services to help all, and even send a helicopter to take you to the
hospital.
Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be
upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained
firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish
the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings.
Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or
prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will
come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and
pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell
phones and computers.
How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that
are the envy of everyone in the world?
Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, overfed, spoiled brats the
world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great
disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people
in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we
hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.
I know, I know. What about the President who took us into war and has no plan to
get us out? The President who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this
the same President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The
President that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be
the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in
keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?
The Commander-In Chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you
and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did
this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look
around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?
Think about it...are you upset at the President because he actually caused you
personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your
sorry ungrateful behind every day.
Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to
serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no
draft in this country. They didn't have to go.
They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an
''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable''
discharge after a few days in the brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?
Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds, it leads; and
they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and
guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows
this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and
when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or
another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write
a book about "how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it
this way"...Insane!
Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV,
burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage.
Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially
more good than bad.
We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several
times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.
"The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I
found rather hard to believe. It must be true, given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the
direction the country is headed, and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with
the performance of the President. In essence, 2/3's of the citizenry just
ain't happy and want a change.
So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What are we so unhappy
about?''
Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and
heating in the winter?
Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time, and see more
food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?
Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?
Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way
that can provide temporary shelter?
I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the
world is just not good enough.
Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and
provide services to help all, and even send a helicopter to take you to the
hospital.
Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be
upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained
firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish
the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings.
Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or
prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will
come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and
pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell
phones and computers.
How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that
are the envy of everyone in the world?
Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, overfed, spoiled brats the
world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great
disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people
in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we
hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.
I know, I know. What about the President who took us into war and has no plan to
get us out? The President who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this
the same President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The
President that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be
the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in
keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?
The Commander-In Chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you
and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did
this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look
around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?
Think about it...are you upset at the President because he actually caused you
personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your
sorry ungrateful behind every day.
Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to
serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no
draft in this country. They didn't have to go.
They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an
''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable''
discharge after a few days in the brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?
Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds, it leads; and
they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and
guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows
this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and
when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or
another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write
a book about "how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it
this way"...Insane!
Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV,
burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage.
Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially
more good than bad.
We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several
times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Seventy Five Years +
Submitted by
Fred McCaleb
What A Difference 75 Years Can Make!
A sure sign that you're getting "up there" is that you can remember back
when things were different . . . A LOT Different!
Consider some of the changes that we have witnessed!!!
We were born before the PILL and the population explosion.
We were born before TV, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics, frisbees,
frozen food, nylon, dacron, Xerox and contact lenses.
We were before radar, flourescent lights, credit cards, split atoms,
laser beams, and ball-point pens.
For us, time-sharing meant togetherness ... not computers or condominiums.
A "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware, and software
wasn't even a word!
In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of," and being
gay meant you were happy and carefree.
In those days, bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagons.
We were before Batman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Snoopy.
We were before DDT, vitamin pills, disposable diapers, Jeeps, and the Jefferson
nickel.
We preceded Scotch Tape, the Grand Coulee Dam, M&M's, automatic
transmissions, and Lincoln Continentals.
When we were in school ... pizzas, Cheerios, frozen orange juice, instant
coffee and McDonald's were unheard of. We thought fast food was what you
ate during Lent and Outer Space was the back of the Riviera Theater.
We never heard of FM radio, tape recorders, electric typewriters, word
processors, electronic music, digital clocks, artificial hearts and guys
wearing earrings.
We were before pantyhose and drip-dry clothes, ice makers, dishwashers,
clothes dryers, freezers, electric blankets, air conditioners and before
Hawaii and Alaska became states.
We were before yogurt, Ann Landers, plastics, hair spray, the forty-hour
week and the minimum wage and before man walked on the moon.
We got married first ...and then lived together afterward. How quaint
can you be?
In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, "grass" was mowed, "coke"
was something you drank, "pot" was something you cooked in, "rock music" was
a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.
We were before coin-operated vending machines, jet planes, helicopters,
and interstate highways. "Made in Japan" meant junk and the term "making
out" referred to how you did on your exam.
We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers,
and computer marriages. We were also before day-care centers, group therapy
and nursing homes.
We had fountain pens with bottles of real ink. We had stockings made of
real silk with seams up the back that were never straight. We had saddle
shoes and cars with rumble seats. We had corner ice-cream parlors with
little tables and wire-back chairs where we had a choice of three flavors.
We hit the scene when there were 5-cent and 10-cent stores where you
bought things for five and ten cents. You could buy ice cream cones for a
nickel or a dime.
For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone
call,buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.
You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 ... but who could afford one? A
pity, too, because gas was only 11-cents a gallon.
We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was
discovered, but we were surely before the sex change ... we made do with what
we had.
And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a
husband to have a baby! Can you imagine that?
Fred McCaleb
What A Difference 75 Years Can Make!
A sure sign that you're getting "up there" is that you can remember back
when things were different . . . A LOT Different!
Consider some of the changes that we have witnessed!!!
We were born before the PILL and the population explosion.
We were born before TV, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics, frisbees,
frozen food, nylon, dacron, Xerox and contact lenses.
We were before radar, flourescent lights, credit cards, split atoms,
laser beams, and ball-point pens.
For us, time-sharing meant togetherness ... not computers or condominiums.
A "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware, and software
wasn't even a word!
In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of," and being
gay meant you were happy and carefree.
In those days, bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagons.
We were before Batman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Snoopy.
We were before DDT, vitamin pills, disposable diapers, Jeeps, and the Jefferson
nickel.
We preceded Scotch Tape, the Grand Coulee Dam, M&M's, automatic
transmissions, and Lincoln Continentals.
When we were in school ... pizzas, Cheerios, frozen orange juice, instant
coffee and McDonald's were unheard of. We thought fast food was what you
ate during Lent and Outer Space was the back of the Riviera Theater.
We never heard of FM radio, tape recorders, electric typewriters, word
processors, electronic music, digital clocks, artificial hearts and guys
wearing earrings.
We were before pantyhose and drip-dry clothes, ice makers, dishwashers,
clothes dryers, freezers, electric blankets, air conditioners and before
Hawaii and Alaska became states.
We were before yogurt, Ann Landers, plastics, hair spray, the forty-hour
week and the minimum wage and before man walked on the moon.
We got married first ...and then lived together afterward. How quaint
can you be?
In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, "grass" was mowed, "coke"
was something you drank, "pot" was something you cooked in, "rock music" was
a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.
We were before coin-operated vending machines, jet planes, helicopters,
and interstate highways. "Made in Japan" meant junk and the term "making
out" referred to how you did on your exam.
We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers,
and computer marriages. We were also before day-care centers, group therapy
and nursing homes.
We had fountain pens with bottles of real ink. We had stockings made of
real silk with seams up the back that were never straight. We had saddle
shoes and cars with rumble seats. We had corner ice-cream parlors with
little tables and wire-back chairs where we had a choice of three flavors.
We hit the scene when there were 5-cent and 10-cent stores where you
bought things for five and ten cents. You could buy ice cream cones for a
nickel or a dime.
For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone
call,buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.
You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 ... but who could afford one? A
pity, too, because gas was only 11-cents a gallon.
We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was
discovered, but we were surely before the sex change ... we made do with what
we had.
And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a
husband to have a baby! Can you imagine that?
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