Reclaim Alabama: April 2023

Devil Make A Third

And Finally the last few written words.

Chapter 21, 4th paragraph,

"Laughing" Bell right in front...

Right over Bells name is written 'Bush'

Page 289, talks about the farm Buck bought his mother.

I n the Margin in written 'Landmark'

Grandmother had unerlined in the center of the page "I've got a thousand acres and a big white house ..."

Also on this page in the first line is the name "Myrt", over it is written 'Maggie'.

PAGE 299 1st full paragraph, half way down is the name "Carmen".

In the margin is written 'Aunt Jessie'.

And Last on page 300, at the bottom of the page is underlined "the boys".

In the Margin is written 'Tommy, Otis and Joe.'

The book this information comes from is the 1st edition written is 1948.

Also on PAGE 171, next to the last paragraph, last sentence:

"then he reached out and knuckled the red head, hard,"

This is underlined and in the margin is writtten a single word. 'Tom.'

Chapter 19, Page 195

At the top of this page is written

'Tom was hired by Buck as "water boy" at 5 cents a week.'

PAGE 196

In the center of the page where the dialog reads:

"Had it Long?"

"Ten Years,"

In the margin is written Martin Hotel

PAGE 202

5th Paragraph

"Tobe? I didn't ...."

Tobe is underlined and written 'Dominque' over his name.

PAGE 204, last paragraph

"I'm Lota Kyle,"

In the margin reads:

'Lota was the name of one of Buck's nieces, Lota B. Cheek'

More excerpts:

Chapter 6, PAGE 59, 1st paragraph 4th line. "the block of land"

In the margin is written N. Foster, Newton, N St. Andrews, Powell

PAGE 64

8th paragraph, the whole paragraph is in parenthesis and it begins with "She's a schoolteacher," and beside it in the margin is written 'Music Teacher'

PAGE 73, right above the INTERLUDE is written: ' The teachers name was Ida and Ghastie was named Ida after her and christened later when she was 2 - 3, she was renamed Ghastie.

It is not until Chapter 16 that more is written in the margins.

PAGE 171, this page is about my grandfather, Thomas Eugen Buntin Sr., Buck's Nephew.

3rd Paragraph -"He (Buck) was near the door when a small boy came slowly down the hall. Syrup dripped from a soffy hole in a biscuit held just above his mouth and the boy licked gravely at the bottom. He had bright red curly hair and his noe looked like allthe Bannons'.

In the Margins reads 'Tom Sr.'

It goes on to the last sentence

Ernestine's (Eugenia)

As Requested, I have thumbed through the book my father has and has pulled excerpts written in the margins by my grandmother.

page 11

third paragraph. 'His mother' is under lined and in the margin reads Jane Baker.

PAGE 13

last paragraph 'Coke" is underlined in in the margin is written:

Uncle Coley whom I remember and fave me 1/2 stick of juicy fruit gum which he would cut with his pocket knife.

PAGE 14, 5th paragraph, 3rd sentence: 'Jeff and Hearn'

In the margin reads:Uncle Dan and Doug Baker

7th paragraph: Joe Bannon

In the Margin, Grandfather Joe Baker

Lat ssentence:

You Kin see the McPherson stock...

Underlined McPherson and in the margin is written 'Sanders'

Page 50, last paragraph "Myrt and Nance,"

Written in the margin 'Maggie and nanny?' There is a question mark after nanny.

Ellen,

You simply must share that book with us. I NEED to borrow that book so that we can identify the characters. I will add your name to our Baker genealogy page as well.

I was talking with Betty Faulk Peters tonight and she tels me that the character Charlie Factor (p. 99 in the 1989 edition with the foreward by Dr. Belsches) is her grandfather (Dothan Eagle Editor Nat Faulk's father.

"Charlie Factor was smaller than Stylish George and already his face was settling into an approach to old age, although he was little older than Buck. He sold furniture, and when it was necessary in the community, he made coffins."

Betty said her grandfather had been given the money by his mother to go to Tulane to medical school but attended only a year before he gambled away his tuition and had to come home. However, he'd learned enough medicine to embalm bodies and so he became the town undertaker. (At least that is my understanding.)

Keep posting. You've got lots of info. Sharman

Jane Sims Long

My grandmother was Ghastie Jane Baker. I was named for her. My mother, Jane Miller Sims, graciously dropped "Ghastie" when she named me.

FLYING MONKEY ON THE STRIP & A PAIR OF GEESE with GOSLINGS IN FRONT OF THE FARMER'S MARKET

Here's a link

This blog post summarizes my work decoding the 1887 Tuscaloosa Panoramic Map. With the exception of two blocks, the street right-of-ways in the original Tuscaloosa are unchanged since 1821. (north boundary: the river; west boundary: Martin Luther King Boulevard to 15th Street: South Boundary: corner of 15th Street and MLK Boulevard to corner of Queen City Boulevard and 15th Street; east boundary: Queen City Boulevard from 15th Street to the river)

https://reclaimalabama.blogspot.com/2023/02/going-to-include-few-links-to-blog.html

Here's a link to all the Library of Congress Alabama panoramic maps.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/panoramic-maps/?fa=location:alabama

I have a scan of the 1993 Union Furniture color version on file at Tuscablue and they can print HUGE copies at their cost. Please feel free to share any of this with those who may be interested.

I don't have a succinct narrative to describe HORNET ROW.

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If ya click on this blog post and scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN to where it says "Why do yon mountains turn the musing eye", you'll see the newspaper clipping that turned me on to HORNET ROWThe store PAUSE (2306 6TH STREET) is inside the old Leland Hardware store which is on part of the subdivision of Lot 166 which was the southeast corner of the block when it was first sold in 1821. Lot 166 is the northwest corner of Monroe Street (23rd Avenue which ends at the Drish House past 15th St. and if ya walk out there in the middle of 23rd Ave. and look south, you'll see the Drish House which was originally called Monroe Place and it was all named for President Monroe who ordered Lot 166 sold in October of 1821) and Cotton Street.

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Robert Register (robertoreg)

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LEONIDAS POLK Leonidas Polk - Wikipedia

Confederate officers at Gen. Leonidas Polk's Headquarters, Demopolis, Alabama. Cabinet card of wartime Confederate officers John R. Routh, J. R. Ogden, Andrew Routh, Albert Bondurant, Tom Bowie, Tom Williams, Allen Bowie, all pictured in uniforms and carrying swords. Cap devices, possibly the letters J. G., on the front of some of the caps. File:Confederate officers at Gen. Leonidas Polk's Headquarters, Demopolis, Alabama.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Collection: Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk Broadside | SCOUT (utk.edu)

Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk wrote this broadside, entitled A Proclamation. To All Soldiers, in This Department Absent from Their Commands Without Leave, from his headquarters in Demopolis, Alabama on April 16, 1864. Polk offers a pardon to all soldiers of this department absent from their commands (including exchanges and paroled prisoners), who shall within ten days after having knowledge of this proclamation, report for duty to their respective commands, or to the Commanding Officer of the post at Meridian, Mississippi. Polk states that a petition, signed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mississippi legislature, was presented to him requesting him to consider the plight of a large number of men now absent from their commands … who in a moment of weakness were induced to abandon their duty and desert their colors (but have now) seen reason to regret their want of fidelity and are anxious to return. Polk acknowledges that although past experience has made him reluctant, he will allow these men this last opportunity to return without punishment and make examples of those who do not avail themselves of the opportunity.