Ben Smedley Purchases Farm, Randolph, Alabama

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April 2004


ANOTHER FARM IS SOLD
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   The Roanoke Realty Company has sold for Mr. Thornton D. TAYLOR the 80-acre farm off 
of which the “Foot-pad” church lot and burying-ground is taken, on the Roanoke-Wedowee road, 
to Ben SMEDLEY, a hustling negro [sic] farmer on Mr. C. W. AVERY’s place near Stroud [Chambers 
County]. SMEDLEY is a good example to others of his race as to what a negro can do. He works, 
saves his money, is good for his debts, and is now able to purchase a farm of his own.

[From The Roanoke Leader (Randolph County, Alabama), 27 October 1915, p.1]

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The “Foot-pad” Church is now more commonly known as Union Hill Baptist Church, 
located about three miles northwest of Roanoke.