Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-05-05
NY RecOuectiOns of Macon in 1S48
By c. {. EILAND

battle near Holly Springs. Mr.. Boyle
was an old merchant and citizen Of
the town; he was the father of Ro-
bert ard Car Boyle. Mr.. Saddler was
another pioneer metchAnt Of the
town. He had no children. Dan Deu-
pree, a wealthy planter, father of
Louis Deupree, a newspaper man and
John and Joe. DR.. McCleliand, father
of George McLelland who kept books
for A. Klaus & Co. for a long time,
This firm did a large business for
a long time.
Along about the year 1851 or 80
Macon took on a considerable boom.
Mr.. Albert Harrison, one of the most
progressive and wealthiest citizens,
put up a row of brick buildings, be-
ginning at the corner where Klaus
store is at present running up to
about where Walter Patty's store
nov stands.
There was a dwelling house on the
corner lot. There were no business
houses on either side of the street
north of this until some time after
tse War. Mr.. Madison Brooks and a
Mr. Stockard were the first ones to
occupy the corner store KLAUS corn
err. They did a general merchandise
business; next to them Dent & Shell
toms Drug Store, then a large double
store building run by the firm of Bush
Dunn & Co. This firm was compos-
ed of Mr.. John, Bush and Col. Hinchie
Dunn. Not long after this Col. Dunn
was appointed Consul to Havana but
was taken sick a few days after re-
celvlng the Appointment and died.
l cannot recall who the officials
of the town were when l first knew
it. The county officers: Capt Wei
born was sheriff, Urcle Charlie Bowen
was Circuit Clerk, l think Judge
Ames was Judge of the PROBATE Court.
Fcote held sQme office. l do not re-
collect what it was.
y The most important event in the
history of the town and county up
TO that date was the completion of
|, the Mobile & Ohio Railway to Macon
in 1855. Tie county and town joined
!, in and gave a great barbecue on the
| Fourth July of hat year in horror of
: the event as well as to celebrate In
{ dependence Day. The place for the
2 grand spread was across the river
, a mile or more from town, just this
4 side of the railroad bridge; l never
5 could understand why they put it so
2 far off unless it was that every
! body could see the iron horse as it
5 went by. One of Mobiles Crack Mill
1 tary Camps with Land and number
d of citizens from there as we'll as all
along the line came up. My recol-
lection is that DR.. Shelton read the
d Declaration of independence Tin those
e far off days it would have been con-
It sidered almost treason to have pulled
. off an affair of the kind without open
S ing the ceremonies VIII the reading
r.. OF the Declaration of Independence)
Y A Mr.. Clark, Editor of the old Mobile
k Advertiser, was the chief speaker or
e this occasion. The clouds were low,
IS ering and threatening rain all the
d morning but Mr.. c ark kept speaking
$ He seemed oblivious of the fact tina
ID to most persons an occasion of thi.
e kind was the dinner. Before he go
through there came one of the hard
est rains \ ever saw fall. 1t filled vi
at the pits ruiz I'D all the good things
sresRt-th the ladies' ha<Fff ateea oifsEcc.ch main
y next. All are c-~ipyoss my2ssSrf,N
Is N front of the o,v David ..kk resi
!. tence. IL was a private school ar,
"a Taught by Prof. Sherman. His as
IS SIS m wa Mr.. Jesse Buck. prot
lie SHERMAN was a graduate of Yale
1 nm scholar and a splendid teacher
AZ there were some boys in this scboo
IKE there are in schools this dav
"a reckon, that never studied and NV,
Is ) Knew a lesson. One of them was !,
our Latin class; it came his turn r.
" Iecite' de commenced, stammered. 50,
:: GOWN. The old professor looked .,
nun and bawled out: "Take your seat
e II the Latin language was not a dead
q anTg,uage you world Rave killed it,
Inc professional men of tba touU,
as recollect them at that for y"
period: Lar away
: Inc legal profession was represent.
: eo by Mr.. Fl. L. Jarnigan who / reel.
!" on was considered the dean of tb;s
r par at that day. Then Judge Reanc.
= namp' Judge Foote, Mr.. Elisha D;s.
I mukes and Mr.. Dabnev. There ,nas
{ a young man james Williams. broth,
er OF Thomas and W. L. Williams. that
|. mad just commenced to practice but
: oied a short time afterwards.
\ This town as lone as 7 bavo l,-
{ II has always had fine corps of DOCTORS
: DR.. Dent, | think, was the fret Joo
, TOR that visited u family after we
came to the county. He was tail
straight as an Indian, distinguished
looking mar; the dignified Ia Chester
t!eio IN manners) DR.. ]. j. Shelton
ana the genial, kind-hearted DR.. v
M Murphey that was liked bv everv
one who knew him. DR.. w. D. Lvle
was not SO polished in his manners
but stood well in his profession as .
physician and surgeon. I never knew
mucn of DR.. Clemons; he was killed
aoout this time. DR.. Minor came
later, so did DR.. Hendrix, a short
while before the war. Thew both d;J
a large practice for many years: thew
died a few years ago.
In speaking of schools I neglected
TO mention the girls school. II was
a little red house hat stood on the lot
where the public school now stands.
A yea or so after this Prof. Poindex-
Ter built the Calhoun Institute. In
those days it was considered a yery
nne building, and it ranked, I suppose