The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19
FLORENCE DESCENDANTS
 OF GENERAL JOHN COPPER,
Fly MARY INGE HoskINs

Worldwide cynics declare there is nothing new under the sun, but as his
 tory repeats itself with each incoming
 generation. we know the esprit de corps
 of all achievement is ever new, for be-
 hind all progress is man, central man,
 whose novelty will never grow old The alike. nor cast in the same physical
 mold. The man who figures for good
 when the demand of the hour comes, is
 the Beneficiary of his generation; it is
 the dominant man whose life has in-
 fluenced the nation, state and town in
 witch he has lived, who makes history
 possible, and whose life will count in
 all the days that are coming down the
 centuries to meet the waiting genera
 tions.
 Any man who has brought order from
 chaos by spiritual advisement, by po-
 litical exploitation. by literary achieve
 ment or to the sound of the bugle and
 fife is honored for all time, by all alike
 -put to his immediate descendants he
 will never be Caesar dead and turned
 to clay"-but a living, breathing per
 sonality, the very soul of the Karma re-
 ligion, forcing emulation, thus keeping alive great characteristics in great fam flies.
 In this age of rapid living, when all the world is obsessed with speed mania, it is well to turn aside occasionally from
 the frantic effort to keep abreast with the times and look back into a past to a people who made the present a possi- bility. Out a short distance from Flor ence, on what IS still known as Hickory Ifil," right in the center of the planta- ton he loved. is the grave of a hero, Gen eral John Coffee. Cedar trees, planted by | hands he loved, keep silent watch over this spot, standing tall and straight as becometh the sentinels of a soldier; here Is felt the quiet subimity of an intense | loneliness, the majesty of solitude grips the heart of the living with overwhelm- ing awe, when approaching the last rest ing place of a man who lived well and
 above all else, a man who died we'll The recent one hundredth anniversary
 of the battle of Horseshoe Bend fought between the American forces and the Creek Indians. on March 27. 1874, and
 celebrated on July 1, 1914, at Dadevile. or F miles north of that place. has brought again the names of General An
 drew Jackson and General John Coffee in
 the limelight of the present, for the Creek war was no idle pioneer story but
 was far-reaching in its effects on the
 young nation, inasmuch as 1t destroyed
 the power of the Creek Indians in the
 central south forevermore. In short pe-
 riod of little over five months. 2000 war
 riors. prophets and kings of the Indian
 tribes had fallen before the bullet of the white man. their wigwams burned and their villages forsaken.
 The victory won by General Coffee at Tallushatches, the victory of Tallapoosa, won by Cooke. the two won by Floyd. and those of Taladega and Enotachopco. won by Jackson, and the last fierce stand n ade by the misguided Creeks at Horse shoe Bend, when the waters of the Tal- lapoosa were red with blood. for out of the 300 braves who donned the war paint on this memorable occasion led by the doughty Menewa. S30 were killed and only one who was not injured. Never before did the Indians fight with such ferocity--