Malachi Hinton was born March 5, 1730, in Chowan Co., North Carolina. He married Sarah Wimberly June 16, 1764, in Edgecombe co., North Carolina.…
(Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) SOME BRIGHT MINDS The following extracts from letters to the Insurance Bureau, Washington, were contributed…
At a recent and well-attended religious service in this city (Troy, Alabama) on a hot evening, a bat varied the interest of the occasion…
Didn't Use His Own Medicine Doctor – Take this medicine as directed and your cold will be gone in two or three days. Patient…
HIS LONG WAIT “Grandpa, how old are you?” “I am eighty-seven years old, my little dear.” “Then you were born eighty years before I…
Humor is timeless as these two anecdotes from 1883 newspaper reveal. (Excerpts from The Shelby Chronicle, Columbiana, Alabama, Nov. 22, 1883) Brilliant trade? "Doctor,"…
FUNNY FRIDAY A MUSICAL BED (From Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) The last novelty from Germany is a musical bed, which receives…
(Transcribed From Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) The following advertisement appeared in the New York Hearld: "Board and Repose Wanted --- in…
