Thursday, February 23, 2012

Appalachian Values and Some People Who Exemplify Them

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Senior scholar, Loyal Jones, a native of nearby Cherokee County, North Carolina, and for many years director of Appalachian Studies at Berea...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Singing in the Cotton Mills or Mountain Music from the Sweat Factories

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In these parts, Union, Towns, Fannin and surrounding counties in North Georgia and also in nearby Tennessee and North Carolina, we like what...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tracing the Souther Genertions ~ Those Who Remained Behind in North Carolina: Jesse Souther’s Will and His Children

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I ended last week’s article by promising a look at the will of Jesse Souther (1784-1858), whose children Joseph, John Jesse, Kizziah Souther...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Tracing the Souther Generations ~ Some Who Stayed Behind in NC

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I have written much in these pages about five siblings who came to Georgia in the 1830s and settled in Union County, Georgia, at least for a...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tracing Some of the Jenkins Ancestors of the Late Hon. Edgar L. Jenkins

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A search through the 1834, 1840 and 1850 Union County, Georgia census records did not yield a single family with the last name of Jenkins. W...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

A Tribute to Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins

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Union County, Georgia can be justifiably proud of one of her native sons, Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins. He grew up in the county, was ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area Bears Distinctive Name

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Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area was a project of the Civilian Conservation Corps finished in 1942 shortly following America’s entry into...