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THE MURDER OF ABE BAXTER , WASHINGTON COUNT, ALABAMA, MAY 30, 1932
Abe Baxter was the great nephew of my gr gr grandpapa J. W.Baxter of Escatawpa, Alabama , Washington County.
Five men were involved in the murder of Abe Baxter, Gene Mizell,Wash Bailey, Joe Skumro, Wes Berry and Emile Gurney.
Gene Mizell was Abe Baxter's half nephew. Gene's mother Emily Jane Holland Mizell was the half sister of Abe Baxter and Wash Baily was Abe Baxter's brother, Mary Daily Mizell's brother.
Gene Mizell , Abe's half nephew fired the first shot that bought Abe down, as Abe was scared and turn to run, Gene Mizelled fired a shot at the back of Abe's head and it struck him in the shoulder. As Abe lie on the ground Joe Skumro walked over placed his shotgun at the nape of Abe's neck and shot him. The sound could have been heard all over Vinegar Bend, but no one paid any attention to he noise with it being deer season.
The five men were waiting for Abe as he was leaving town. Abe showed up later than they expected leaving the men nervous thinking he wasn't going to show up for one more drink together before he left town.
Abe was late, but he did show up carring his suitcase packed with a few cloths and stuffed with the money he had gotten from selling his Barber Shop and a school bus he had driven for years and his soldier's bonus. He was leaving town, behind he was leaving his wife and children. Stories go that he was meeting a young girl he had met and was running way with. Abe was carring a suitcase and his pockets were buldging with money. (Fourteen hundred dollars)
The five men who were his so called friends knew of the money he was carrying , planned the last get together, for a drink, on a dirt road in Vinegar Bend, Alabama. It was here they killed him and left his body in a shack over grown with vines, bushes and trees.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CAME FROM THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORY BOOK PAGE 119. WRITTEN BY JACQUELINE ANDERSON MATTE.
ALSO HELPING WITH THE BOOK IS DORIS JORDAN BROWN AND BARBARA WADDELL
The baffling disapearance of Abe Baxter from his home near Burbank, Alabama, on May 30, 1932, was a mystery that gained nationwide attention. The Washington County News followed the case closely and this final account was given in 1944.
The last remains of Abe Baxter have now been laid to rest at Fruiitdale. There was only a handful of bones turned over to the undertaker by Sheriff L. L. Armstrong when he came to the Courthouse here in Chamom a few weeks ago to get them for burial. Lt Aaron Baxter of the Army of the United States instructed the undertaking compmpany of Waynesboro, Mississippi to secure his father's bpne from the jail in Chatomom, where they have been for the past several years. The interment of what remains of the body of Baxter writes the last chapter to a gruesome and bloody murder which was committed in this county twelve years ago. Washing County's most famous crime has been publicized and written up in several national detective story and mystery magazines during the past years. Most of the authors of these stories visited the county and interviewed officals who knew the details of the epic crime. These writers seemed to always request and make a visit to the jail to view what remained of the murdered man. The leg bone, which was held together by silver plate, the means of identifying the dead man's body, was of unusual interest.
Baxter was murdered by five men and his body concealed in an abandoned house, and it was after the dead body had begun to attrack vultures that the killers decided to boil the body. This they did and too the remaining bones and tied them in a sack and kept them in this manner from Sprint to Fall. In the Fall they took the bones, along with the deag man's gun, watch and shoes and scattered them near an old railroad crossing. A remark by one of the men later prosecuted for the crime that "Abe was guarding the crossing" led tto the discovery of the crime and the later prosecution of the accused murderers. Robery was said to have been the cause of the killing of Baxter. The bones were indentified as being, Abe Baxter's because he was known to have had a silver plate in his leg. ****************************************************
IN 1946 Mama's (Myra Elnora Richardson Waldrop 1906-1995) sister Aunt Tillie ( Matilda Effie Richardson, Pyburn, Werner, Etter 1908- 19--) was living in the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta while working as a Telephone Operator Supervisor for Southern Bell A T & T. Company
December 7, 1946 in the early morning about 3 A.M. Aunt Tillie had reported to work because one of the Operator Supervisor had reported out sick. Aunt Tillie went to work at 11 p. m. and worked one of the busiest nights of working with Southern Bell AT&T Company. (now Bell South.) The calls started started comming in a little after 3 A. M. and lasted all night and up until the next day. While Aunt Tillie was working helping to direct calls from Georgia and other States, there were calls being dialed and could't get thru from Columbus, Georgia where her family lived, and were trying to get thru to Her. Calls to the Winecoff Hotel and to Southern Bell Telephone trying to see if Aunt Tillie was alive or dead. The radio was covering the Fire and mama and the Richardson family were deeply concerned that Aunt Tillie was caught in the Winecoff Hotel fire because she lived there and they had talk to her earlier on in the eveing , knowing it was her night off.
The family kept trying untill all had quiten down and Aunt Tillie called home. She explained there was no way she could get a line out of Atlanta, the whole board was lit up from a little after 3 A.M. until late in the day after the fire started.
Among some of the people that were killed that night was several Jordan High School there for a Convention. The only way they could identify the girls bodies was by their Jordan High School Class rings. They would have graduated June 1947, the same year my sister Juanita Deloras Waldrop was to graduate. My other sister graduated in 1949, so Juanita and my other sister knew the girls that died.
I was eight years old and I can remember going to visit Aunt Tillie in the Winecoff Hotel, We would go shopping when she was off during the days and when she worked during the day we would wait for her to get off from work at three o'clock. I can't remember how we all slept in the room she lived in, but I can't remember anyone ever complaining. We always had fun and wanted to go back.
I remember during one of our stays, I sat in the window sill and listened to the music from a bar, lounge or Cafe below. One night they played, the song "Sentimental Journey" from early night time and all night long until almost dawn. Most of the time they would play the popular songs of the mid nineteen forties.
Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel
October 30, 1913 - Winecoff Hotel opens, 176 Peachtree Street, Atlanta. At 16 stories, it is the tallest building in the city. December 7, 1946 - 119 people lose their lives in the worst hotel disaster in the United States when Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel burned. The hotel had 15 stories, but Atlanta fire-fighting equipment could not handle any building taller than 8 stories
The Winecoff Hotel sits, an empty shell, across the street from the Ritz-Carlton. Taday an infamous name in the history of Atlanta, before 1946 this building was considered to be one of the finest hotels in Atlanta and the entire Southeast. Completed in 1913, the Winecoff was named for builder William Fleming Winecoff, who owned the hotel. It stood 15 stories tall, dwarfing the other buildings around it. The building represented the "northern" movement of Atlanta to what today is called "mid-town." Very little of mid-town existed prior to 1890, when Piedmont Park was built. With the 1895 Cotton Exposition, mid-town seemed to come to life and by the time Winecoff built the structure the growing section was in need of a hotel.
Winecoff, who lived and died in the hotel, was comfortable with the fact that the hotel was "fireproof." Built of brick and stone, it did not have fire escapes or a sprinkler system. Sometime after 3am an employee smelled smoke on the third floor of the structure. More than 275 guest were in the hotel, preparing for the Saturday festivities marking the 5th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. When fire trucks began to roll to the scene at 3:45, the fire had made significant progress, and many had already died. Guests trapped on the upper floors tried to climb down bed sheets or rope, only to lose their grip and fall to their death.
My Web Page....the story about Scalawag.
ROBERT WRITES:
You asked me if I knew what Scalawag meant. Yep.... I sure do.
Entry Word: scalawag Function: noun Text: Synonyms: SCAMP, devil, enfant terrible, limb, mischief, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, skeezicks, villain
Thesaurus Symbols * generally or often considered vulgar || usage restricted; consult a dictionary for more information
https://www.angelfire.com/folk/nalabama/index.html
Okay you aked why Scalawag...the year 1867 is when my gr grandpapa married my gr grandmama December 1867. Here is a letter to me about my "Scalawag" and the following letter is from me telling him I use with price "Scalawag".
My gr grandpapa was married four times divorced twice, all wives were still when he was killed. He was in the KKK, he was State Reprensentive of Washington 1868-70 un Montgomery, Alabama, he was a Minister, Physician, all this has been documented. He beat up the Judge of Probate of Washington while wearing his white sheet. he owned his owned his own business, Justice of the Peace and was in a righteous duel in Mississippi when he was young and had to leave Mississippi and move around, because dues were outlawed in the early 1850s in Mississippi.
He was also mention in the Book, "VICTORIAN LADY ON THE TEXAS FRONTIER" BY ANN RANEY COLEMAN OF WIHITEHAVEN. DR. JOSEPH R. WALDROP WAS ANN RANEY COLEMAN'S SON IN LAW ( ALMOST) JRW, MARRIED ANN'S DAUGHTER VICTORIA K. THOMAS. HE LEFT HER WITH CHILD ABOUT 1858. WHEN SHE DIVORCED HIM HER LAWYER FOUND HE WAS STILL MARRIED TO ANOTHER SARAH CATHERINE ALEXANDER, OF CRITTENTON, ARKANSAS.
JRW was ambushed shot and killed August 18, 1870. in Escatawpa Alabama,Washington County, Alabama
Hello Sandra
I have tried to discern the info you posted on your site about your ggf. I am only more baffled by your use of the term scalawag. Let me try to explain from my perspective. I do have much Mississippi kin and we seem to have some common lines together.
Scalawag is the term for a Southern traitor. I just do not understand how a Southerner can wear it as a badge of honour. Let me qualify myself with a bit of history. During the War in Eastern central Mississippi union General Sherman burned homes, churches and businesses. He stole all livestock, food, crops and anything of value. He raped women both slave and free. He poisoned the crop lands and poisoned the wells. Side bar: (One of our Doolittle ancestors, Elizabeth Doolittle in Newton, Mississippi made her home into a hospital where she cared for wounded Confederate soldiers. As the died with no place to be buried she had 100 of them buried in the Doolittle family cemetery in Newton, Newton County, Mississippi. )
Now it is 1865 the war should be over but reconstruction was instituted. Soldiers coming home from war had no guns, no food, torn families, no money, no clothes only to find what homes and lands were left was confiscated by carpetbaggers and scalawags. Southerners were not allowed to vote or run for office. Ex-slaves were appointed to elected government offices and law enforcement positions. They were given guns and ordered to shoot anyone still in a Confederate uniform and to shoot any Southern white person seen out after 10 o'clock at night. Thus the kkk was born. The kkk was the only way Southern white males could stay alive and provide for their families. They went after carpet baggers. They went after scalawags. They went after those exslaves who side with the traitors and northerners. In some places the fighting was so bad is was as if the War had not ended. Sidebar:(Kemper County Mississippi was so bad the called it bloody Kemper). Another thing these past Confederates did was to seize control of the Democrat party and chase out the socialistic Republicans. The tactics these past Confederates used to have the Democrat party as the only party were revolting. These tactics were so ingrained in the Democrat party they still exist today despite the party platform change to communism. As for being divorce four times If you lived in hell for years it would be difficult for you to have a lasting meaningful relationship. What is wrong with dueling? It not like he was going to get satisfaction through a corrupt judge. The carpetbagger/scalawag judge got what he deserved. Your ggf Joseph Ryan Waldrop was an honourable man you should treat him as such.
Harold
Unreconstructed in Georgia
HERE IS MY ANSWER TO HAROLD .
Hi Harold,
As hard as it may sound, I use my handle with loving affection, not the meaning of it but the loving meaning behind it,
My ancestors were all Southern being from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
In my grandparents and great grandparent's days, the worst thing you could call anyone was a *Scalawag*.
Here how the storie goes.
Every year since I was a small child until I was twenty, my parents would take me to Alabama and Mississippi to vist on a two week vacation wiht my dad's relatives. Each trip the first two weeks in June we would first swing over to Pensacola, Flordia to visit my gr aunt Fannie Masters, Barrett Sweeting.
Aunt Fannie must have been in her late seventies or early eighties. She was hard of hearing and she didn't want to miss anything my parents were talking about. My parents would always take a girl friend of mine along, my sisters were older than I and were married when I was about twelve years old. Mama and daddy would take one of my friends to keep me from talking and asking so many questions, like " Are we there yet?" and "When are we going to stop and eat?"
Back to story. We used to sit on the front porch and while Aunt Fannie was doing all she could to hear, we were sitting on the steps, giggling and talking, not thinking we were bothering Aunt Fannie. When we had gotten on her nerves, she would yell down at us, "Hush up, you little Scalawags" I don't think she meant it in a nice way. Then it was, everything we did , Aunt Fannie would call us those little Scalawags. It got to the point when she talked to my parents on the telephone she would how is that Little Scalawag. I still don't think she meant it with affection. Hence, I became the little"Scalawag".
When I first started researching my State Rep. Joseph Ryan Waldrop , I was so proud and dont't get me wrong, I love , adore and proud of him. But, when I found out he was a State Rep. of Washington County, Alabama, Minister , Physician and Justice of the Peace. He also owned a retail store . It was in front of his store that he was ambushed and killed. I just knew then we came from Class and Breeding. Then the stories go on he was married to Nancy Heard, Sarah Catherine Alexander, Victoria K. Thomas and Sarah A. Baxter , who was my gr grandmother, they married in 1867 in Washington County, Alabama. Two of his wives he wasn't divorced from. He had at least two children by all wives except Sarah Cathrien Alexander from Arkansas.
But he wasn't a bad man, he was in trouble when he was very young and had to keep moving. It was when Victoria divorced him when she found out he was still married to Sara Catherine Alexander.
I have his life story under Who shot J. R. (Our J. R.) I have letters from him and letters to him, some were copied from the Montgomery Archives in Montgomery, Alabama. He was welled loved and respected in Washington County. He was six foot and six inches. He was loved by the women and the men wanted to be just like him. Stories goes you either loved him or hated him. The only way a man could get up the nerve to kill him was to ambushed him , and they did. After the Civil War he fought for Washington County to clean out the Carpetbaggers and the Scalawags, he fought against the colored taking over and robbing and stealing. He fought Judges or anyone who got in his way to help keep the his part of the South from being taken over.
JRW went down to his knees, but it took a coward to take him down killing him in a ambushed. I love my gr grandpapa very much thru researching ,I have grown to know and love him.
So when I call him a scalawag, I use it with affection, My handle has special meaning for me. I still have tons of information to share about my gr grandpapa. He was was quite a fighter for what he believe, evern to the point while wearing his KKK sheet he beat up the Judge of Probate of Washington County, Alabama.
I loved your letter, would you mind if I use it on my Web page. Your remarks were very gracious towards my gr grandpapa. I would love to share the message you sent me today. Thanks Harold. During the county's early years trained medical doctors were few. The practice of medicine was done by lay people who used home remedies. As the county become more populated physicians began to settle in the area. They were among the few educated men of their time and were most often the leaders of a community. Two of these Medical Doctors were our own. 1885 thru 1904, Dr, John Henry Cooper, son of , Nancy Baxter and William J. Cooper. Nancy Baxter Cooper was the sister of our great grandmother Sarah Baxter Waldrop. Dr, Cooper was the fist cousin of our grandpapa James Harry ("Capt. Harry") Waldrop. also, Dr. Joseph Ryan Waldrop until he was ambushed and killed August 13, 1870. He is our gr grandpapa married to Sarah Baxter Waldrop and papa of our grandpapa James Harry Waldrop and Joseph Ryan Waldrop, Jr. Dr. Waldrop was killed in the fall of 1870 and Joseph Ryan Waldrop, Jr. wasn't born until the spring of 1871. James Harry must have been between a year or year and half when the baby was born. James Harry was born in 1869. Loper , Alabama.
TAKEN FROM "THE HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY." BOOK. (ALABAMA) WRITTEN BY JACQUELINE ANDERSON MATTE.
Sandra Waldrop Doolittle and Juanita Waldrop Stone Hirsch's gr grandpapa.
The day my great grandpapa allegedly assaulted McCartney. the Judge of Probate in Washington County, Alabama, while still wearing his white sheet and hood.
Macartney was given thirty days to make bond and was to appear again on December 30, 1868 before Judge Elliot. He failed to appear and the office of Judge of Probate was declared vacant.
Macarthney wrote again to Secretary of State, C, A, Miller, on January 16,1869 explaning.
I wish to inform you-- returning from Mobile last Sunday 10th Inst. I was waylaid by a party of Ku klux Rebels, at Escatawpa,who followed me about a mile from the depot and one of them named Waldrop, assaulted me and drew his pistol, and put it to my breast and swore he would shoot me, and would have done so had it not been Mr. Moss prevented him, he then twisted my walking stick out of my hand and broke it over my head, and cut me badly and disfigured my face, so as I have not been able to do any thing.
J. W, Gordy was appointed Judge of Probate with the support of John Elliott and a petition with 38 signatures of whites and 31 signatures of freedmens.
C.C. Page had been elected representative to the Genersl Assembly in 1868, but did not get to serve in the capacity. Hon. C.C. Page was murdered and robbed on the road hom on December 23, 1869
Two reports were sumitted telling of Page's death and his replacement Joseph R. Waldrop, Reoresentiveto the State Legislature who received 379 votes having not opposition. R, L Bowling, Sheriff, signed one and J. W, Gordy, Judge of Probate and Clerk of the Circuit Court and Bowling signed the other. Local citizens were again in control of government in Washington County.
Notes: 273 Returns of votes, Washington County. This must have been the same Waldrop who allegedly assaulted McCartney.
UPDATE: Hon Joseph R. Waldrop was ambushed shot and killed August 13, 1870 In Escatawpa , Alabama, Washington County.. It was ruled a radical murder and never solved. <
CITRONELLE CALL, CITRONELL, ALABAMA
VINEGAR BENDS LUMBER COMPANY IN HANDS OF RECEIVER
The Vinegar Bend Lumber Company of Vinegar Bend, Alabama is in the hands of a receiver Mr. Tyler Turner of Mobile, Ala. being the one appointed to have charge of the Company. He is a brother of Noel E. Turner, President of the Company and was formerly a partner un the business.
The action of the Company is going into Bankrupty was voluntary, It is earnestly hope by the many good friends of Noel E. Turner that everything may be straighten out and the Company soon be on it's feet again and operating as usual. (The Citronelle Call Newspaper.)
ARRON BURR-VINEGAR BEND, ALA. BY V. HARVEL JACKSON
Arron Burr having excape from Natchez in 1807, passed through the general region of Vinegar Bendm Ala. on his way to the Mobile river basin and the Spanish Terrutiry if West Florida. However, he was captured near Calvert and therefore never made good his excaped from the authorutues in Natches, Outlaws have buried their gold here in the Vinegar Bend area.
MR. EBENEZAR TURNER , KNOWN AS "MR. EBB" Mr. Ebenezar Turner, better known as Mr. Ebb took over the Vinegar Bend mill in 1887, (Mr. Ebb and his wife Verda bought the Lumber Mill from James Monroe Baxter, in 1887. Mr,Baxter was the father-in-law of John Tyler Turner, John Tyler Turner was Mr. Ebb's brother and husband of Racelia Baxter Turner.)
Mr. Ebb Turner and Verda built their home on the same land where the old Turner was before it was burned down. Mrs, Verda Turner was the former Verda Southall, daughter if William Southall who was an engineer if the M & O Railroad, during the War between the States,
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER -STATE LINE, MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER
CHATOM, ALABAMA
1920
S. W. Taylor, purchase a new Ford from Chatom
Auto Company, Monday of this week.
Jake and L. E.. Rockwell of Vinegar Bend were here the first of the week, visiting and also on business.
Cyrus Loper of Millry and L. L. Armstrong, also of
Millry were in Chatom this week.
J.P. Wheat & Will Arnold of Seaboard, Ala.were in Chatom this week visiting.
H. W. Wadworth of Tibbie was in town this week.
W, C. Moss, running for the Office of Sheriff, was in Chatom this week visiting W. C. Moss is from Escatawpa, Alabama.
Jack Shelle of Yellow Pine.
Fate Brown fron Millery is in Chatom this week on business.
H. J. Goff of Fruitdale, Ala.
N, E, Turner and sons Rhet & William on business.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, ALABAMA NEWSPAPERS
VINEGAR BEND, ALABAMA
1924
Washington County, Alabama Newspapers
R. L. Moss, Hartly Hougesen and H. M. Platt of Escatawpa, made a business trip here last Friday.
1924
List of Voters- March 1924 Escatawpa, Alabama
Baxter, Mary
Lightner, F. P.
Turner, Verda
Turner, Margaret
Rockwell, Ruth
DELINQUINT TAX NOTICE
Bank of Washington County, President Noel E. Turner, Beat 9 No. 52 Bank of Washington County, SW or Sec 17 TP 2, 7, R 4 West of WT 7 Block 12 town of Vinegar Bend, Total $14, 650.
Earl Long, Clerk in the York Hotel of York, spent the weekend here with relatives. 1924
Earl Long day Clerk of the York Hotel, York Alabama, on account of eye trouble, after having had measles was here Saturday with home folks and friends, till tuesday noon when he was returned to work. Mr. Long is one of our latest subscribers and will enjoy it as a letter from home.
E. Earl Long was in Chatom this week on Vacation,
H. M. and Brown Platt of Escatawpa paid Chatom a business visit the first of the week. January 24, 1924
A serious accident in Vinegar Bend, Alabama, Washington County :
A serious accident in Vinegar Bend: Miss Mabel Jones, got caught in a carrier chain, lost one arm near to the shoulder, working in a mill. Not knowing how near the engine room.
The machinery stoped as soon as possible. The chain had to be sawed into before she could be released. Her body suspended in the air, where the carrier stopped. Kind friends helped her, by holding her until the chain could be loosen.
A fast through freight was just about due and the mill people got permission for it to stop there and take her to Mobile. A strange thing hwppened in connection with the accident. After the young lady had benn taken to Mobile, the arm was buried. All fingers on the hand were straight at the time. But later the fingers pained her so much she couldn't
stand it. She begged them to take the a4rm up and straighten out the fingers. They did so, and found the first three fingers so tightly clutched , that they could scarely be open. But when open, the pain stopped.
UPDATE:....Aunt Louise Waldrop Jorgensen was born in Vinegar Bend, Alabama 1905. Altho she was only fourteen years old when the accident happen, she did remember Miss Mabel Jones got along fine with missing an arm and she married a man in Escatawpa, Alabama and they had two childrn and Mabel was a good mother and could change diapers as well as any other mother in Washington County, Alabama. Thank God, this serious accident had a happy ending.
WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWSPAPER:
VINEGAR BEND ALABAMA
1918
The Vinegar Bend High School will open Monday Septenber, relatives and friends of Clyde Pullen, Tom Marable and Henry Grimes received letters telling of their safe arrival overseas,
Mobile vistors this past week were Gaines Baxter, Grooover Gorday, Boyd Pullen and Morris Hanson.
Miss Sally Platt was a Vinegar Bend vistor Thursday. Miss Margie Pullen returned from a visit to relatives in Mobile and Whistler.
Miss Lucile Busbee left Monday to attend Montevallo College. Olgie Smallwood accepted a position in Bay St. Louis.
Jeanette Rockwell is taking a Bussiness Course in Mobile.
Miss Joe Ollie Waldrop left this past Monday, to visit with her friends in Birmingham, Alabama.
(My aunt Joe Ollie Waldrop (Mrs, Lindsey Daniels) of
Vinegar Bend, Alabama.
Mrs. Fannie Barrett if Whistler is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry Waldrop of Vinegar Bend. (Mrs Fannie Barrett my gr gr aunt and Mrs. Harry Waldrop is my grandmother.
WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWSPAPERS
CHATOM, ALABAMA, WASHINGTON COUNTY
1899
Two young colored boys about the age of fourteen, decided to take matters into their own hands, and reverse what was happening in their day. They killed a farmer and shot and killed two white boys. When a newspaper man up North came down and asked the Southern men how it felt, being possible KKK members, to have the colored boys turn their evil ways on them. One Southern gentleman(possible a KK Klan member) spoke up and replied, "are the colored boys still alive?"
NOVEMBER 19, 1899
D. D. Turner feeding Jury $13.00
J. W. and N. W. Platt building Bridge on Dog (Escatawpa) River.
Messrs. Washington Berry, W. S. Holland and N. W. Baxter of Vinegar Bend was in the City last week on bussiness.
October 7, 1920
Miss Jeanette Rockwell of Vinegar Bend, has accepted a positiohn in the Law office of James N. Granade.
Miss Jeanette Rockwell and Ina Chason and Chester Jenkens were guest in the jhome of Miss Rockwell at Vinegar Bend, Alabama, Sunday (Miss Jeanette Rockwell married Lawrence Deas, my great great aunt Clarenda Baxter and Hoss Deas's son.)
Miss Jeanette Rockwell spent Thanksgiving in the home of R. C. Jenkins.
T, H. Long of Whistler was in Chatom visiting his parents, 1921.
R. L. Gordy, was in Chatom visiting from St.Stephens.
B. E. Gordy and son Ben, were in Chatom this week visiting.
Ina Chason, Dr. J. Chason's daughter , will be attending Ward Belmont Semenary, Nashville, Tenn. Will be a guest of Honor along with other County Queens from over the States. At the time whick President Harding WI to be in Alabama and Birmingham's honored guest. 1920
Deer Park "Bone Heads"
Beat
Vinegar Bend Tean
The Washington County Newspapers
Gentlemen, It may be of interest for you to know that the Deer Park "Bones Heads". as Vinegar Bends calls us, Beat the "Hoggers" in a seven inning game. Six to five, at Vinegar Sunday Afternoon.
May 22, 1921
The battery for the Deer Park was Joe Hester, of Citronelle, and Jim Dees of Deer Park. Vinegar Bend battery in the beginning was B. Monk and E. Williford. Monk, the famous pitcher for Vinegar Bend was knocked from the box in the 4th inning. After having about pint of Rosin taken from his pockets by the umpire.
The battery ending for Vinegar Bend was Doc. Macon of Avery, Mississippi. A. Brown of Vinegar Bend. Deer Park wound them up by a tripple play in the last half if the 7th, That was hard for them to understand. The tripple was started by R. Lambert on
first base,
Umpire for strikes and balls has Earl Baxter. Mr. Oliver looked over the boys.
