(Buck is about to make his first big business deal with his future father-in-law, AMOS LONGSHORE, whose character may have been based upon Dothan's Captain G.Y. Malone) 

from page 31 and 32 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD: 

He closed his lips tightly, remembering, and trying not to remember, as he faced around to the big white house up the precise gravel walkway that parted two squares of green lawn. "No time to drag around," he muttered, and took two steps toward Amos Longshore's home. Then, he stopped again, staring in a puzzled frown at the lawn. "More and more folks here lettin' grass grow in their yards." He shrugged slightly. "Mother wouldn't have it."

newspaper clipping from the August 16, 1899 DOTHAN HOME JOURNAL ~ 

G.H. Malone was also one of Captain Malone's sons and one of Ed Malone's brothers. He along with T.M. Espy are considered to be the two main political forces behind the formation of Houston County in 1903. Mr. T. F. Espy was Collier Espy's great grandfather. T.M. Espy was Collier's grandfather. 

"Mrs. J. M. Shepherd" should read Mrs. G.M. Shepherd. She was my great-grandmother. My Grandma Register was one of her 12 children. Not long after this article was printed the Shepherds moved by way of covered wagons from their farm in Cotton Hill just north of Coleman  to a farm near Hartford. Mrs. G.M. Shepherd's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Peacock, lived near Beulah Church and were Dothan area pioneers. They were my great-great grandparents. Four of Mrs. G.M. Shepherd's daughters married Dothan men so I have a lot of distant kinfolks around Dothan.