Thursday, May 27, 2004

Gold Mining in Union County

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“There’s gold in them thar hills!” The cry is not too grammatically correct, but that early pronouncement of prospectors reverberated throu...
Thursday, May 20, 2004

A Mother's Love Defied the Bonds of Death: A Mountain Story

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This morning is cloudy and dark. The overcast sky puts me in mind of days in the mountains in my childhood when the clouds hung low and fog ...
Thursday, May 13, 2004

Mother's Day and Children's Day

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Travel back with me through the mists of time to the country church many of you readers attended when you were children and during your grow...
Thursday, May 6, 2004

Salute to a Special Lady - Mrs. Dora Hunter Allison Spiva

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It’s not unusual to pick up a Union County newspaper and see a picture of a lovely lady, nearly a centenarian now, judging a Garden Club sho...
Thursday, April 29, 2004

Civilian Conservation Corps.

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Perhaps some of you reading this column served in the CCCs, the Civilian Conservation Corps. Or perhaps you had a father, uncle, cousin or b...
Thursday, April 22, 2004

William Marion Jackson and Rebecca Goforth Jackson

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Continuing the saga of the Jackson Family in Union County, today's account will look at a son of William Jackson and Nancy Stanley Owenb...
Thursday, April 15, 2004

The Family of Thomas Kimsey Jackson

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Thomas Kimsey Jackson Teacher, Merchant, Farmer, Minister (1867-1951) Two weeks ago this column presented the family of early Union settler ...