Appalachian History

I guess I will just have to talk Sarah into being willin’

Verna Mae Slone (1914-2009) relates the story of how her father Isom ‘Kitteneye’ Slone proposed to her mother, Sarah Owens Slone.

“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.

Warm weather’s here–that means they’re starting to come back. News bees appear as omens to those wise enough to read them.

The Panic of 1907: bank failures, timber prices collapsed, mine operations ceased, railroads stopped, and a rash of bankruptcies occurred.