Clay County AlArchives News.....Pate, Miss Vela, A Noble Woman  January 26, 1912
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The Montgomery Times January 26, 1912
Oxford, Jan. 26. 
Miss Vela Pate, who lives across the mountain in the Shinbone valley, came to 
Oxford and sold to Thad M. Gwin & Co. a bale of cotton which she raised last 
year without any assistance aside from the ginning. Miss Pate is a typical 
mountain girl, and she is a fine-looking young woman, she has several brothers 
and sisters, all of whom have married and moved away from home. She keeps up the 
work on her father's place and manages affairs for the old gentleman much better 
than some men could do it. She made two bales of cotton last year, besides a lot 
of other stuff, and it is really interesting to hear her talk of the affairs of 
life. Her father is nearing 73 years of age, and while old, he is still hearty, 
and his daughter thinks it no hardship or burden to work in the fields and make 
the crops at home. While Miss Pate is a typical mountain girl, she possesses a 
great deal of native intelligence, in addition to her beauty of person. Besides, 
she lives in a community which is noted for its genuine hospitality. In the 
Shinbone valley they invite you to come over and spend a week with them because 
they really want you to come, and when you start home, they load up your buggy 
with a great variety of things for real use. Miss Pate is one girl in a 
thousand; she deserves much credit for her accomplishments which she regards as 
a matter of course, and the man who wins her hand and heart will have won for 
himself a helpmeet of the kind grandmother was. In speaking of her this 
afternoon, Mr. Gwin said that he paid a quarter of cent more for her bale of 
cotton than he would have for that of any man living, and that she would very 
successfully compete with the boys clubs in any agricultural venture.

Birmingham Post-Herald
Anniston, January 25. (Special.) Calhoun County has a girl farmer who is 
successful in the person of Miss Vera Pate, who lives across the mountain in 
Shinbone Valley. She is a beautiful lass and possesses a great store of native 
intelligence. During the past year living at her solitary home as the solo 
guardian of her aged father, all of her brothers having deserted the old place, 
she took to the hoe and plow herself and raised two bales of cotton. One of 
these bales she herself brought to Oxford Wednesday afternoon and sold the 
cotton to Thad M. Gwin & Co. for a good price, Mr. Gwin stating that he gave 
more for the cotton than he would have given to any mere man living.

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