Thanks David. As much as I love Gordon Lightfoot's music, I now have the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald replaying in my head. That had to be tragic for all families with loved ones on the boat.
Getting fined for renting a room to a Negro could have been 100 years later. Rather redundant for the poor Negro. She paid to rent the room and then spent more money on the fine for renting the room.
I s'pose we will never know for sure what punishment Mrs Whatshernames runaways recieved. Maybe whipping was more common than we'd want to believe. It seems to be assumed that's what they'd get.
Weren't the reports a few days ago saying there was a grain shortage in like Ohio and that part of the continent too? Wonder where the pigs were going? Probably to a smokehouse.
Interesting info on the Florida cattle. I can see how the middle of the state may have had a better handle on it but here, with it all being free range, the cows had no clue there was a territorial boundry or state line. They couldn't care less about any tax, they just wandered to where the feeding was better. We had a lot of that in the North end of the county. Still do with farms having one pasture with half in Florida and the other half in Alabama. I've got to get myself to the Hysterical Society's Resource Room and look at their book of brands. Someone told me our family brand was in it. I'd never thought about that before. I've heard the family stories about the round ups but never thought to try to find the 'brand'.
I just wonder, did they think in the same words as they wrote in the flower bedecked editorials? That had to be taxing on the brain if they did.
Pam