History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume II, Part 121

Author: Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920; Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Mrs. 1869-
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 724

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Vol. XI., 1883-84, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1883; Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, July, 1884- 9 numbers. Svo. pp. 367. Editors: Philo- mathic, M. Graham, H. G. Hawkins, H. T. Smith; Erosophic, Chester Harding and E. M. Harris.

Vol. XII., 1884-85, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1884; Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, 1885-9 numbers. 8vo. pp. 366. Editors: Philo- mathic, Morris Loveman, E. M. Shackelford; Erosophic, A. L. McLeod, J. W. Craddock, and Daniel Pratt.

Vol. XIII., 1885-86, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1885; Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, 1886- 8 numbers. 8vo. pp. 300. Editors: Philo- mathic, Alston Fitts, Z. T. Rudolph; Ero- sophic, J. B. Dell, A. E. Pace; Peithonian, F. S. Lyon. During this year the latter so- ciety was formed.

Vol. XIV., 1886-87, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1886; Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, 1887-9 numbers. 8vo. pp. 347. Editors: Philomathic, Thomas M. Owen, editor-in-chief; Erosophic, Oliver D. Street; Peithonian, William W. Quarles.

Copies seen: Owen. Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University, Ala., also has set.

-The Journal.

In a sense this was the successor of the Alabama University Monthly. It run through three sessions. In the beginning of the fourth year, owing to various delays in get- ting out the first number, the whole of the edition was suppressed and the Crimson- White took its place.

Detail of the several issues, editions, etc., is given below.

Vol. I, 1891, Jan., Feb., Mar., May, June -5 numbers. 8vo. pp. 183. Editors: R. T. Goodwyn, R. G. Hall, E. C. Patty, E. E. Newton, J. H. Pettway.

Vol. II, 1891-92, Nov., Dec., 1891; Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, 1892-8 num- bers. 8vo. pp. 356. Editors: Robert E. Parke, Jr., editor-in-chief, L. J. Clayton, T. A. Street, Jr., J. C. Forney, and J. E. Willoughby.

Vol. III, 1892-93, Nov., Dec., 1892; Jan., Mar., Apr., 1893-5 numbers. 8vo. pp.

179. Illustrations. Editors: John Leslie Hibbard, editor-in-chief, William Brockman Bankhead, Bibb Graves, J. T. Holtzclaw, Jr., John H. Simpson.

Vol. IV, No. 1, Nov., 1893. 8vo. pp. 32. No others issued.

Copies secn: Owen.

-The Crimson-White.

Folio.

Vol. I, Nos. 1-15, Jan. 11, 1894-May 4, 1894.

Vol. II, Nos. 1-22, Nov. 23, 1894-June 18, 1895.

Vol. III, Nos. 1-17, Oct. 25, 1895-June 15, 1896.

Vol. IV, Nos. 1-10+-, Oct. 27, 1896-Jan. 19, 1897. Vol. V, Nos. 1.

Successor to the University Journal, and intended as a weekly paper representative of college life, current doings, news, etc. Contains a few illustrations. Each issue is a folio, usually four columns to the page. Copies seen: Owen.

-(Commencement Day Programmes.)

4vo. pp. 8 and 12.

First issued July 3, 1879. They have ap- peared regularly each commencement since that date, and vary in length. Copies seen: Owen.

-Vol. 1. The Senior Battery. No. 1. (De- sign, etc.) June, 1891.

4to. pp. 12. Illustrations.

Designed to create a sentiment for aboli- tion of military discipline at the Univer- sity.

Copies seen: Owen.

-The Corolla published by the Students of the University of Alabama. Raison d'- etre. (etc. 3 lines.) Tuscaloosa, Ala- bama, Commencement, June 28th, 1893. The Cleveland printing and publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, n. d.

8 vo. pp. 187. Illustrations. Copies seen: Owen.

-The Corolla of Ninety-Four. Published by the Students of the University of Ala- bama. June, 1894. Volume II. n. p. n. d.

8vo. pp. 199(1). Illustrations.

Copies seen: Owen.

-The Corolla of Ninety-Five. Published by the Students of the University of Ala- bama. June, 1895. Volume III. n. p. n. d.

8vo. pp. 190, 11. Illustrations.

Copies seen: Owen.

-The Corolla '96 University of Alabama Tus- caloosa n. p. n. d. (Roberts & Son, printers, Birmingham, Ala.)

Oblong 8vo. pp. 166, 11. Illustrations. Vol. IV.

-The Corolla Volume V '97 published by the students. The University of Alabama. ( Roberts & Son, Birmingham, Ala.) n. d.

Oblong 8vo. pp. 162. Illustrations.

These volumes are executed in the high- est style of the printer's art. The illus- trations are numerous and in the main ex- cellently finished. They represent the vari-

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ous classes, faculty, the trustees, fraternity life, members of the alumni, and humorous scenes in college life. The prin- cipal contents are what are usually found in the College Annual, but each volume contains much of historical interest in the past life of the University. The lat- ter are catalogued herein under their re- spective authors.

Copies seen: Owen.

Commencement Daily.

Folio. Vol. 1. Nos. 1-5, June 20-24, 1886.

Only five numbers issued during the fifty-fifth annual commencement of the University. Conducted as an ordinary daily paper, but principally filled with Col- lege news, notes, exercises, etc .; Prof. James B. Little, editor and business manager. Copies seen: Owen.

-The University Daily.

Folio. Vol. 2, Nos. 1-5, June 18-23, 1887.

Similar to and intended as the annual successor of the Commencement Daily. Edi- tors, W. W. Quarles and O. D. Street. Copies seen: Owen.

Reports to Board of Regents

-Partial report of the President and heads of departments of the University of Ala- bama, submitted at the fall session of 1874, of the Board of Regents. Montgomery, Ala. W. W. Screws, State printer. 1874. Svo. pp. 16.

Others were probably issued, but no copies have been seen.

The proceedings of the sessions of the Board of Regents are to be found in the Journals of the Board of Education and Board of Regents, 1871, 1872, and 1873. See Schools, sub-title Board of Education. Copies seen: Owen.

Trustees' Reports

-Report of the Trustees to the General As- sembly of Alabama, 1837. Tuscaloosa, 1837. 8vo. pp. 7. Sabin: No. 570.

-Report of the trustees of the University of Alabama; also the special report of Col. F. Bugbee, one of the trustees of the University. House of Reps. 133-Senate 33. Tuscaloosa : John McCormick, printer, 1846. 8vo. pp. 10. Copies seen : University.

-Report of the trustees (Joshua L. Martin, Presdt. of the Board), of the State Uni- versity. House 500 copies. Montgom- ery: McCormick & Walshe, printers. 1847. 8vo. pp. 8.

Doc. No. 2.

Valuable report for statistics, etc., of this period of the university.

Copies seen: Curry; Owen.

-Biennial report of the Board of Trustees

of the University of Alabama, to the third biennial session of the General As- sembly, held in the city of Montgomery. Montgomery: Brittan and De Wolf, State printers. 1851. 8vo. pp. 8.

House Doc. No. 2.

Copies seen: Owen.

-Biennial report of the trustees of the Uni- versity of Alabama: 1851-52, 1852-3. Montgomery: Brittan & Blue, State printers. 1853.

Svo. pp. 4. Copies scen: Owen.

-Report of the trustees of the University of Alabama: to the Senate & House of Representatives of Alabama. Eutaw, Ala .: printed at the office of the Inde- pendent Observer. 1859.

Svo. pp. 20.

Thos. H. Herndon, John J. Ormond, and John S. Storrs, committee of trustees on report. Valuable report.

Copies seen: Curry.

-Report of the trustees of the University of Alabama, to the General Assembly. (1875-1876.) Montgomery, Ala .: Bar- rett & Brown, State printers. 1877. 8vo. pp. 16.

First under act reorganizing the Univer- sity, requiring report to be made to each session of the General Assembly.

Copies seen: Owen.

-Trustees' reports, 1876-1891.

8vo.

Report for sessions of 1876-77 and 1877-78. pp. 18.

Report for sessions of 1878-79 and 1879- 80. pp. -.

Report for years of 1880-81 and 1881-82. pp. 15.

Report for years of 1882-83 and 1883-84. pp. 15.

Report for years 1884-85 and 1885-86. pp. 47. Edition, 350 copies.

Report for years ending 15th June, 1887, and 15th June, 1888. pp. 32. Senate edition, 500 copies.

Report for 1888-89 and 1889-90. pp. -. Annual report for year ending 24th June, 1891. pp. 31.

Copies seen: Owen.

(See also Barnard, F. A. P .; Beck, F. K .; Boykin, B .; Bullock, E. C .; Clark, W. G .; Clay, C. C., Jr .; Fitts, J. H .; Forney, Alex B .; Furman, R .; Garland, L. C .; Garrett, Wm .; Huntington, B. W .; Lewis, B. B .; Lipscomb, Rev. A. A .; Manly, B .; McMul- len, R. B .; Morgan, John T .; Murfee, J. T .; Pratt, J. W .; Richardson, W. G .; San- ford, J. W. A., Sr .; Simms, Wm. Gilmore; Smith, J. L .; Smith, Wm. R .; Taylor, Joseph W .; Weatherly, J .; Woods, Rev. A .; Wright, J. W. A.)

REFERENCES .- Clark's History of Education in Alabama; Catalogues; Bulletins; copies of the Crimson White; Corolla; University of Alabama Index; manuscript record of the Board of Trustees and Letters, Circulars, etc., in the files of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LIBRARY. See University of Alabama.

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VALLEY HEAD. Postoffice and station on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad in the northeast part of DeKalb County, 11 miles northeast of Fort Payne. Altitude: 1,021 feet. Population: 1888-75; 1910- 233; 1910-Valley Head Precinct 11-764.

It is situated on the water-parting line of Wills Valley, hence its name. Here Wills Creek rises and flows southwest to the Coosa and here Lookout Creek rises and flows north- east to the Tennessee. Iron, marble, kaolin, sandstone and other minerals are abundant in the vicinity. This is the center of orch- ards of peaches, apples and plums. Vine- yards and strawberry farms flourish. Lumber mills, grist mills .and gins are in operation.

Two miles away on top of Lookout Moun- tain, is the DeSoto River, that runs the en- tire length of the table-land, north to the Tennessee River. Along its course the river spreads to a great width, and leaps 100 feet to a wild gorge below. In this gorge, it was declared by the Indians, DeSoto camped, on his journey westward to the Mississippi; he fortified his camp, againt hostile Indians, by erecting two lines of rock fortifications, 100 feet apart; gigantic trees, hundreds of years old have grown through these forts, seem- ing to confirm the story. Mentone Mineral Springs, also, are within two miles of Valley Head.

REFERENCES .- Folder of, Mentone, Ala .; letter from Van Buren, August, 1916; U. S. Geol. Sur- vey, 1906; Wilkinson's Alabama Bulletin-De- Kalb Co .; Polk's Ala. Gaz., p. 794, Official Reg. 1915.

VALLEY REGIONS. The State of Ala- bama contains two main valleys, or more pre- cisely, valley regions: the Coosa Valley and the Tennessee River Valley. Both of them are in the plateau or hill region, in the northern two-thirds of the State. The two main valleys branch out into numerous smaller valleys and, together cover a large portion of the area of north Alabama. Many of the valleys are well adapted to general agriculture and more especially to the cul- tivation of orchard fruits, berries, vege- tables, and forage and pasturage crops. The soils as a rule are light and of less natural fertility than those of the black belt, cane- brake, and blue marl regions of the Coastal Plain; yet, in ease of cultivation, responsive- ness to fertilizers, and variety of possible productions they are only slightly inferior.

See, for description of the various valleys, Blountsville Valley; Broomtown Valley; Brown Valley; Cahaba Valley; Chattooga Valley; Choccolocco Valley; Coosa Valley; Jones Valley; Moulton and Russellville Val- ley; Murphrees Valley; Possum Valley; Roupes Valley; Tennessee Valley; Wills Valley.

REFERENCES .- McCalley, Valley regions of Alabama, pts. 1 and 2, (Geol. Survey of Ala., Special reports 8 and 9, 1896 and 1897); Gib-

son, Report on Murphree's Valley. Ibid, 4, 1893); Berney, Handbook (1892), pp. 423-448.

VAN BUREN. Interior village and rural mail route, in S. E. part of De Kalb County, near the village of Collinsville. Population: 1890, Van Buren Precinct 5, 984; 1900, Van Buren Precinct 5, 915; 1910, Van Buren Precinct 5, 830. It was the old headquar- ters for the state coach route and the P. O. until the A. G. So. R. R. came, when it moved the P. O. to Collinsville.

REFERENCES .- Statistical letter from Van Burn, Aug. 1916. Official and Statistical Reg- ister, 1915.

VEGETABLES. The edible parts of her- baceous plants. The vegetable garden through the entire history of the State has been the one accompaniment of the home. Flower gardens, lawns, general features of ornamentation and home beautification and adornment might or might not have obtain- ed, but the vegetable garden was everywhere. It was usually located on the most favored spot, usually just in the rear, and slightly away from the dwelling. Around it was a picket fence. It was laid off in walks. Oc- casionally the walks would be bordered with flower beds. In some cases, they were shad- ed by grape arbors or trellises. In beds, along the fences, were raspberry vines or currant bushes, or beds of sage.

While the owner had little scientific knowledge of soils or soil values, the proper fertilizers for use, or of many other things now common knowledge to all, he neverthe- less grew successfully everything now in- cluded in the vegetable garden, or in truck- farming for the markets, and included in the list were many things now not generally used. Usually the garden bore two or three crops during the year, and it was thus the first example of intensive farming, and at the same time. crop rotation, since usually dif- ferent parts of the garden were employed for different vegetables during successive seasons.

The vegetables included both in the old and the new order, all successfully grown in Alabama, both for the home and for the market, are: asparagus, beans of different varieties, onions, celery, leek, garlic, beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, horseradish, parsnips, peas, peppers, sweet corn, sweet and Irish potatoes, radishes, spinach, squash, turnips, lettuce. Some fruits, as water melons, muskmelons, canta- loupes, tomatoes, and egg plants, are usually grown as vegetables. In 1857 the "Cotton Planter" listed the following vegetables as then grown generally in the State: beans, beets, cabbage, turnips, lettuce, salsify, spin- ach, parsley, carrots, parsnips, mustard, cau- liflower, Irish potatoes and English peas.

The garden usually has a hotbed, com- monly so called, used for the forcing of early plants, or for production until the last frosts of the season had passed. These were of varying type, usually an excavation, framed in with plank, and covered with panes of ordinary sash, or with glass frames.

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The implements of the garden are inter- esting. The hoe, the rake, the grubbing hoe, the spade, the wheel plow and shears for pruning, usually constituted the outfit. Many eagerly sought every new invention for im-' proving garden culture. Horticultural and agricultural journals were taken, and they usually had special departments devoted to the vegetable garden, with suggestions as to seed selection, manures, plowing, best meth- ods for plant forcing, with detailed sugges- tions as to plants for the different months. Communciations are found in each issue, and growers were usually free with their experi- ences. Some of them are amusing, and yet they had value in stimulating discussion and experiment.

With all of the limitations of lack of ex- perience, and many of the things which both art and science have brought into use, it is doubtful whether the yield or serviceability of the modern garden equals the old.

REFERENCES .- Watts, Vegetable Gardening (1913) ; Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horti- · culture (1901).

See Truck Gardening. .

VELVET BEAN. The velvet bean is a twining plant, grown for its vegetation part and feeds, both of which are used for food. The plant is important as a cover crop and for green manuring. In recent years it has become an important addition to the list of field crops in the gulf coast section of the United States. It is a native of India and appears to have entered America about 1872 or 1877. It grows luxuriantly. It is val- uable as a food. The bean is rich in pro- tein. As a cover crop it is extensively used in orange, peach and pecan orchards. It has few equals and no superior as a soil renovater. The nodules produced at the root by the nitrogen collecting bacteria are much larger than those found in the roots of our common legumes.

See Leguminous plants.

REFERENCES .- Bailey, Cyclopedia of Ameri- can Agriculture, vol. 2; Alabama Experiment Stations, Bulletin, Nos. 104 and 120.

VERNON. County seat of Lamar County, situated on Yellow Creek, in the central part of the county, about 10 miles south of Sulli- gent, its nearest railroad shipping point, about 18 miles northwest of Fayette, and about 50 miles west of Jasper. Population: 1880-225; 1890-192; 1900-291; 1910- 324. It is incorporated under the municipal code of 1907.

It has the Bank of Vernon (State), and the Lamar Democrat, a weekly newspaper established in 1896. The Lamar County High School is located there. Its in- dustries are sawmills, cotton ginneries, cot- ton warehouses, gristmills, and a flour mill. It was chosen as the county seat when La- mar County was established in 1868.

REFERENCES .- Brewer Alabama (1872), p. 517; Armes, Story of coal and iron in Alabama (1910), pp. 96, 97, 158, 186; Northern Alabama (1888), p. 142; Polk's Alabama gazetteer, 1888-

9, p. 796; Alabama Official and Statistical Reg- ister, 1915.

VETCH. See Grasses and Forage; Le- guminous plants.

VETERINARIAN, STATE. Created by section 2 of an Act approved March 12, 1907. The professor of veterinary science of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, is by virtue of his position, State Veterinarian, The Act of creation allows the State Veterinarian to nominate, and the State Live Stock Sanitary Board shall elect, as many assistants as are deemed necessary, and as the funds at the disposal of the Board shall permit.

Among the duties of the Veterinarian are to quarantine any place in the State of Ala- bama, "when he shall determine the fact that live stock in such place, or places, are af- fected with a contagious, infectious, or com- municable disease, or when said live stock are infested or infected with the carrier or the carriers of a contagious, infectious or communicable disease." It is also the duty of the Veterinarian to give notice in writing that a place or places have been quarantined. Among the other duties of the Veterinarian are the aiding of tick eradication, the detec- tion of glanders in animals, black leg, or black quarter, rabies, hog cholera, and swine plague, and tuberculosis.

The State Veterinarian has been active in cooperating with officials in the different counties of the state and his annual reports to the governor show the amount of work done.

State Veterinarian .- Dr. C. A. Cary, Au- burn, 1907 to date.

REFERENCES .- Annual reports, 1917 to date; and Acts of the Legislature, 1907, pp. 413-18, and 583.

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Hon. William Rufus King of Ala- bama was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket, with Franklin Pierce as President. Mr. King had represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1819 to 1844 inclusive, and from 1848 to his election as Vice President. During his campaign he still retained his seat in the Senate. Because of ill health, however, he resigned December 20, 1852, and in January, 1853, he went to Cuba in the hope that he might get relief in its sunny cli- mate. By special arrangement, the oath of office as vice president was administered to him by the Federal Consul in March, 1853. With a full realization of his condition, he hastened to his home in Dallas County, where he passed away April 18, 1853. He was first buried in a vault on his plantation, about three miles south of Selma, on the Alabama River, but in recent years his body and vault were removed to Selma. The legislature of Alabama, February 17, 1854, adopted a joint resolution expressive of the sentiment of the people on the death of the Vice President, declaring among other things, that his mem-

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ory would be cherished "as a statesman dis- tinguished for his devotion to her interests, his ardent attachment to the union of the states of this confederacy, as meriting her approbation for the fidelity with which for so long a period he served her people in the councils of the nation." (See sketch in Dic- tionary of Alabama Biography.)

REFERENCES .- Pickett, History of Alabama, (Owen's ed., 1900), pp. 641-647; Democratic Re- view, vol. 13, p. 115, and vol. 31, p. 97; Obituary Addresses (1854); Brewer, Alabama, p. 211; Garrett, Public Men in Alabama, p. 275; Mont- gomery Advertiser, March 31, 1907; and Apple- ton, Lamb, White and other biographical works, as well as the contemporary studies in that period of the history of the United States.

VICKSBURG AND BRUNSWICK RAIL- ROAD COMPANY. See Central of Georgia Railway Company.

VIENNA. Interior village and post office in the southern part of Pickens County, at the confluence of Big Bear Creek with the Tombigbee River, 21 miles south of Carrol- ton. Altitude: 590 feet. Population: 1900- 74; 1910-79.

REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

VIENNA UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION. See Centennials and Expositions.

VINCENT. Post office and incorporated town, on the Central of Georgia Railway, in the northeastern part of Shelby County, 2 miles north of Arkwright, and about 20 miles northeast of Columbiana. Altitude: 411 feet. Population: 1900-765; 1910-995.

İt has the Coosa Valley Bank (State). Among the earliest settlers were the Vincent family, for whom the town was named; John M. Kidd; and the Clements family.

REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

VINE AND OLIVE COLONY. See Fruits.

VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL COM- PANY. An industrial corporation, incorpo- rated September 12, 1895, in New Jersey; capital stock authorized-$38,000,000 com- mon, $30,000,000 preferred, total, $68,000,- 000, outstanding, $27,984,400 common, $20,- 011,818 preferred, total $47,995,218; shares, $100; stocks listed on New York and Rich- mond (Va.) stock exchanges, and common stock traded in on the Coulisse of the Paris Bourse; funded debt, $17,761,319; property in Alabama-manufacturing plants at Mont- gomery, Mobile, Birmingham, Dothan, and Opelika; manufactures and sells acids, chem- icals, fertilizers, etc., mines sulphur pyrites and phosphate rock, imports and deals in for- eign chemical products, such as potash and similar substances, and manufactures, through the Southern Cotton Oil Co. (q. v.), all of whose capital stock it owns, various products from cotton seed, including several grades of oil, soap, lard, and by-products;

has numerous large properties in other states and some in foreign countries, as well as railways, tugs, barges, and other land and ocean transportation

equipment; offices: Jersey City, N. J., and Richmond, Va.

REFERENCE .- Poor's manual of industrials, 1916, pp. 2969-2974.

VISITATION ACADEMY. See Roman Catholic Church.

VITAL STATISTICS. See Health, State

Board of.

WADLEY. Post office and incorporated town, on the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlan- tic Railroad, in the southwestern corner of Randolph County, about 16 miles southwest of Wedowee. Population: 1912-426. The Bank of Wadley ( State) is its only bank.

REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

WAKO KAYI. An Upper Creek town in the northwestern part of Clay County, and near the county line. It was situated on the upper waters of Hatchet Creek and on a branch known in early days as Tukpofka. This would place it west of Flat Top Moun- tain on what is now known as the west fork of Hatchet Creek, and in the vicinity of Chambers Spring.

This town is mentioned on De Crenay's map 1733, where the name is spelled Aco- cayes. Its location is apparently on Chestnut Creek in the present Chilton County, Belen's map 1744 gives the name as Waccoy and lo- cates it between the Coosa and Tallapoosa, at some indefinite point on Potchushatche Creek, thus indicating that the town site had been moved down this same stream be- tween the dates of the two maps. In the French census, 1760, the town, Ouako kayes had 100 warriors, and was placed 15 leagues from Fort Toulouse. This location appar- ently identifies it with its more modern loca- tion of Tukpufka Creek. The town, with its 60 hunters, was assigned to the traders, Brown and Jackson, under the English trade regulations of 1761. Hawkins says the word means blow-horn nest, and that "these birds formerly had their young here." The word is made up of Wako, a species of "heron," kayi, "breeding place."

Hawkins says of the town and its inbabi- tants:

"These people have some horses, hogs and cattle; the range good; moss, plenty in the creeks, and reed in the branches. Such is the attachment of horses to this moss, or as the traders call it, salt grass, that when they are removed, they retain so great a fondness for it, that they will attempt, from any distance within the neighboring nations, to return to it."

REFERENCES .- Gatschet, in Alabama History Commission, Report (1901), p. 413; Hawkins, Sketch of the Creek Country (1848), p. 43; Handbook of American Indians (1910), p. 896;

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Hamilton, Colonial Mobile (1910), p. 190; Shea, Charlevoix's History of New France (1900), vol. 6, p. 11; Mississippi, Provincial Archives (1911), vol. 1, p. 95; Georgia, Colonial records (1907), vol. 8, p. 523.

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History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume II, Part 121

Author: Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920; Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Mrs. 1869- Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 724

Author: Owen, Thomas McAdory, 1866-1920; Owen, Marie (Bankhead) Mrs. 1869-
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 724