Essay on the city of Jasper, Alabama, by Bessie Haley Moore.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
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Folder contains 7-page essay transcribed for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. - • Mre. Beeeie Heley Koore, (writer) MrS, Josephine C. Woods, (revisor) Published in Mountain egle Deoember, 1925, Intereeting Happenings, Paet and Present. A bout City of Jasper. As a ten year old ohild living in the beautiful, oultured,town of Earietta, Georgia, I first beoame a regular reader of the .ountain Eagle. The editor had eeen my name on the desk in his offioe and had mailed a oopy to me. This paper has been a weloome vistor eaoh week during all the intervening years. When my father's family moved to Jaeper we oame somewhat on tha installment plan, Curtis ,my brother. ooming early in Pebruary, uma and the other ohildren a month later and Papa following in another month. Coming by the best route then available, we left 'arietta at mid night going northweet to Chattanooga, ohanged oare and turned souThweet to Birmingham, thenoe north on the oabooee of a train to Warrior Station where we spent the night. Very early the next morning, my unole's trusty negro man-of-all work, Unole Plant, drising two powerful mules, pete and Tobe, to a oover ed wagon, oalted for us and ws started on our thirty-three mile overland trip to Jasper. Beoause of my mother's frail health my uncle had a trundle bed with feather mattress and quilts in the wagon andmamma lay down during most of the journey, while I sat in state with the baby...
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