Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Georgia

The Sunday Lady of Possum Trot

After 40 years of education work, Martha Berry—the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot— is among GA’s most prominent early 20th century women.

An oral history from Confederate Veteran, Volume 20, Issue 1, by Confederated Southern Memorial Association

Rose Thompson spent summer of 1946 in Clayton, in Rabun County GA, where an elderly black preacher told her the tale of Fiddler’s Mountain.

“Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth” is mainly a record of Rebecca Latimer Felton’s middle years & her husband’s political world.

I sought and received the forgiveness of my sins in August 1861, at a camp meeting at Bird’s Chapel, in Dade County, Georgia.

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