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Book Title: History Of Clarke County

INTRODUCTION

    It is the purpose of the author of this book to write a history devoted
almost exclusively to Clarke County and its people. No such history has ever
been published. "Ball's History of Clarke County and Surroundings" contains much
general history, necessitating much reading before reaching the pith of the
story. However, there is much in Ball's History relating to early days of Clarke
and its citizens. Mr. Ball was a scholar and an able writer. He had resided in
the county many years before the Civil War and was familiar with the county and
its citizens. We shall quote extensively from his valuable book. As to the
conflicts between the whites and the Indians, occurring in Clarke County and
along its borders, we shall quote largely from Pickett's History. Pickett is a
fluent writer and perhaps accurate in his details.

    The author of this book has been a citizen of Clarke County since 1875, and
since that time much has transpired in the county under his personal
observation. We have watched with pride and satisfaction the progress made in
the county for the past forty-eight years.

    This book will doubtless be read with much interest by the present
generation living in Clarke, as well as by the generations to follow. If it
should be preserved and handed down through the coming years, it may, in the far
distant future, fall under the eye of some descendent of some Clarke countian
and enable him or her to look to back through the avenue of time and get a
mental picture of Clarke County in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CLARKE COUNTY 
BY JOHN SIMPSON GRAHAM

Press of
BIRMINGHAM PRINTING COMPANY
Birmingham, Ala.
1923


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