Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-01-03
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the girls at our old home. can still
call to mind some few of the girls and
young ladies who attended when ! did.
You were among the number, also
Misses Candys Hudson, Bette and Cor.
nelia Anderson; Aunt Lucy Nicholson
and few others. visited in Shuqua-
lax last May was a year ago. l always
have good time on these visits. | am
getting to be an old man now, but am
still lively and full of fun. Am married
hut have no children. There is not one
you mentioned in your letter to the
Beacon but what remember well. 1t
does me good to think and hear of these
(o!d times.
Mr.. Sam Dunlap, who is president of
the First National Bank here, is a cous-
in of Mr.. Tom Dunlap, your deceased
husband. remember your little boys,
but have not seen you or any of your
family for many years. | left Missis-
sippi in 1870 and have not lived there
4 since, but visit there every few years.
Il lam prompted to write this after read
Y ing your letter to the Beacon. am a
great hand to renew old friendships,
and enjoy talking and writing to old
time friends ard associates.
will say in conclusion that hope
) you are enjoying he alth and happiness,
Y and would be very glad to hear from
YOU and your family.
y Respectfully.
n Your old friend,
T. s. HAMILTON.
Continuing my recollections, /
will now give list, as best that ]
can remember, of the names Of the
! citizens Of Shnqualak and vicinity
I when the war broke oal: i .,'q \
DR.. P. HI. Hamilton, Ebert
Hardy, Jack Bledsoe, Col. Thos.
Haynes, Sr., Thos. Haynes, Jr.,
Henry G. Haynes, W. E. Lloyd,
r. HI. Lloyd, John Rawls, R. M.
= Penry, Col. Nicholson, F. G. Mich
olson, D. F. Constantine, s. s.
Field, James Slaughter, Bill Dl.
rian, Dan Featherston, John Hud
son, T. s. Tyson, s. y. McNeese,
Bill West, DR.. Mcclure, Wesley
Smith, Dan Stout, john O'Brien,
Thos. Dunlap, d. B. Haynie, DR..
Bates, DR.. Sanders, DR.. John T.
Buck, Jack Campbell, II. McFall,
Bill Shields, Wesley, Jim and
Dudley McMullen, Sam Jackson,
4 Sebe Jackson, Henry and Bill
Jackson, Isaac White, Mark, Bee,
Ferd and Lon Greer, Bill Galloway,
Jesse, Bill. Dave and Nick La
grone, r. A. Fem, Squire Simp-
son, John Burrage, Jack Kleiner,
Dan Epps, Stepney Martin, Capt.
Duck, Sam Day, Jim Shelton,
Capt. Darricutt, Judge Hewlett.
The days of which ! write marked
the heydey in legal lore and juris-
prudence Of Israel WEIGH, OF Ma
con, a giant in his profession and
whose knowledge of law, and
whose eloquence in pleading cases
gave him a reputation that was
world wide. He had a brother by
the name of Joe who used to come
to Shuqualak "a whole souled,
liberal hearted fellow--and ! re
member the first gun / ever had
was given to me by him, he hay-
ing boughtit of the firm of Mcclure
& West, of that place.
1t was also the day of good
LIQUOR, when one of the delights of
visiting Macon was to indulge in
a toddy or a mint julip at the
noted bar room of Peter Misso,
Z Gather of Rocco), who was famous
as a professional mixologist. l
was too young to drink then, but
\ I have often heard the grown ups,
in discussing an anticipated trip
to Macon, mention the fact that
Misso's place would be among
those they would visit.
Touching back upon matters of
the war l will narrate a pretty
little romance in which one of the
Shuqualak boys figured.
AS I stated before, Billie Lloyd
carried twenty four of the Shuqua-
lax boys with him to Mobile and
with them joined the Gulf City
Guards, (Lloyd-being given q lieu
tenancy, which company after
wards becoming a portion OF the
oath Alabama Regiment and sent
IN Pensacola for coast defense work
where they remained until ordered
TO Corinth to take part in the bat
t,e e shileh: ! Eerr a.se rcti--