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The Florence (Alabama) Register states that the following gentlemen are candidates for the office of U. S. Senator from the State, in the room of Mr. Pickens, who has resigned; Viz. John M'Kinley, of Limestone, James Jackson, of Lauderdale, Richard Ellis, of Franklin, and Thomas W. Farrar, of Jefferson.
Rhode-Island American and Providence Gazette - December 8, 1826
Submitted by Pam Rathbone
Daily Alabama Journal - June 16, 1852
Col. Nat. Terry, a leading citizen of North Alabama, living in Limestone county, recently had the affliction of losing two daughters within a few days of each other. One, aged seven years, died on the 14th of May, and his eldest, aged twenty one, on the 29th.
Submitted by Pam Rathbone
Old Man LandersThe Courier had a call last week from a very remarkable man, Mr. LOUIS LANDERS, who has reached the advanced age of 96 and has turned into his 97th year. He does not often get to Athens, this being his first visit in over a year, though he only lives out about six miles. He has been a citizen of Alabama fifty years, having come to this state from Georgia, where he was born and lived until after reaching man’s estate. He was in the Indian wars of the present century and was in charge of General Jackson, and he hoped to get a pension, but was unable to do so on account of some little technicality. He is still a very vigorous man, being able to climb the steps leading to our office twenty-two in number, without seeming exertion, and he informed us that he had cultivated three acres of cotton this year, only lacking about two days of being over it in the third time with the hoe. He did not do the plowing. He has almost a full mouth of teeth that are even and white but a singular thing is that many of them are very loose and have been so for years, though he chews on them and says they give him no trouble. His mind is very clear and he talks well, narrating many things of “ye olden” times that are pleasant to listen to. He raise last year 2700 pound of seed cotton, and plenty to tobacco to do him, but he says the will have to quit trying to raise tobacco on account of his eyesight, not being able to properly work it. He is a good Methodist, and believes in shouting Methodism, none other being the right kind, in his humble opinion. The Courier hopes this remarkable and honest old man may live to celebrate his hundredth birthday, which he looks now like he will. He said to the editor that sometime he thought that if it was “the Lord’s will to call him home, that he would be better off, but that he was not complaining of life, for the Lord had been gracious to him, and he was content to stay here until such time as he should see fit to call him home.” He has been kept company by a widowed daughter who lost her husband in the late war and whose chief delight it has been since to see after and comfort her old father.
The Marion Herald, (Marion County, AL), July 18, 1889 – pg 1, Submitted by Veneta McKinney
