The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Daughters of the
 American Revolution

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 Remember the days of old. con ask thy father and he viii show thee: thy elders and they will tell thee. Moses.
 Regent. Mrs. J. Morgan smith. BIT
 Vice Regent. Mrs. R. A. Mcclellan.
 Secretary. Mrs. L. J. Haley. Bir- Treasurev. Mrs. Walter Robinson. oficial Reader. Mrs. J. F. Dugsar. Historian. Miss Metta Thompson. Mobile.
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 Light Horse Harry Lee-Auourn' Andrew Jackscn-Talladega; Regent. Peter ForneyMMontgomery: Regent. Martha Wayles Jefferson-opeNAa' Regent, Mrs. J. l.. Cowan.
 Lewis-Eufaula; Regent MITE A- Dean. .,,.tan.
 Frederick William Gray-Apnistoh' Regent, Mrs. Walter Robinson.
 John Wade Keyes-Athens' neseh@' Mrs. Mary Malone Honman. >s-.
 TuscaIoosa--Tuscalo 0eSe"e mn Ellen Peter-Bryce. "
 Mobile-Mobile; Regent, Mrs. K. H. Clarke. . p.. gent, Mrs. Phares Coleman. .
 Stephens-New Decatur: Regent Mrs. c. J. H!ldreth.
 The Story of Reuben SaHoid and Mafs
 Phillips, This Compilation being
 Tribute of Affection from the"
 Grandson, PeytOn Bibb sanoIa.
 According to a tradition, and presun, ably in the early part of the elshteehe" century. the refined countenance, man ner. and dress, of a forlorn boy In the city of Charleston, South Carolina' eh listed the interest of ladies who careu for the boy whose name was oahoiu From him or otherwise, or rom iii.' and otherwise the benefactresses uh- derstood that their protege had been cIandesttnely sent away from Engiaho for the purpose of preventing posses sion by him of an estate to which ne was entitled. No other tnformation re- 1arding the boy seems to nave been preserved, except that he attended school. and after attaining ma)oritS, went to Georgia in which State ne married. Thus, as tradition says. Is the existence of the name Saffold. Tn the Tinted States explained. Members of the family bearing the name nave had additional grounds for confidence that the tradition has at least oasis of fact. as regards the cause or young
 i,, rharlaGtnn name seems to have originated in ter many. probably in Saxony.
 On September 4, 17S8, in Wilkes Coun- tv Ga was born Reuben Saffold. whose father. Reuben Saffold. wes a planter The elder Reuben Saffold was soi- dier of the American Revolution. ihe Secretary of State of Georgia furnishes conv of certificate of his service. This Is to certify that Reuben Saffold hath steadfastly done hIs duty from the time of passing an act at Augusta. on the goth day of August, 11s1. until tne 2 total expulsion of the British from this State, and the said Reuben Sanold can not to my knowledge or neneI De con. oha yicted of plundering or distressing the country; and Is therefore, under the saidSact, entitled to a bounty of two hundred and fifty acres of good land' free of taxes for ten years.
 "Given under my hand at Savannah, the 2nd day of February, is4.
 Elijah Clark, Col.
 By his order.
 I'll. Freeman.
 In a letter, General William Saffold. (now deceased), of Guadaloupe county. Texas. made this statement. received from his father. Bird Saffold, broth- CT of the younger Reuben: The TO- ries went to my great-grandmother Saffold's house and took all her horses except an old mare, which was left. in response to my grandmother's entreaty. for milling purposes. Mrs Sanold. mentioned as great grandmother, and "grandmother." seems to have been the mother of the elder Reuben. and the in ference that the enmity of the Tories was due to the service which her son was rendering as a revolutionary sol dier would not be violent" Reuben Saffold the younger received an acad- emic education, including some prof. ciency in the Latin language. and dur- ing a brief time taught school. read ing law meanwhile. His course of le- gal study was finished in the office of Edward Paine, an accomplished lawyer of Watkinsvile. Morgan County. Ga :. After admission to the bar. Reuben Saf- fold opened an office in Watkinsville. where he made a credtabie record as an attorney. On April 1, 1911. Reuben Saffold married Mary Phillips. daughter U ty (previously of Greene County. Ga. Mrs. Saffold was native of Greene County Colonel Phillips was soldier in the cause of American independence as is proved by the certificate of ser vice from Col. Elijah Clarke, preserved in the office of the Secretary of State of Georgia, and dated the End day of Feb ruary. 17S4.
 Mrs Saffold was nearly related to GovernorFitzpatrick. whose mother was Anne Phillips. sister of Col Joseph Phillips. Mrs. Sarolds father. At the beginning of the fourth chapter of the Life and Times of Gen. Sam Dale. the Mississippi Partisan. Gen. J. F. H. Claiborne, the Author. thus quotes General Dale: "I was still engaged in moving immigrants to the Mississippi Territory through the Creek Nation. Toward the close of 1872 after having moved Col. Jo Phillips and family to Point Jackson, on the Tombigbee, started my teams back to Georgia, and went down to Pensacola"
 To the close of his life Colonel Phil