Randolph County AlArchives News.....Starving Families in Randolph County May 31, 1860
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Fayetteville Observer May 31, 1860
The Wedowee Mercury, published io Randolph County, Ala., states it as a positive 
fact, that "there are persons in this county actually starving" and recommends 
that the Judge of Probate call the County Commissioners together to take. 
measures for their relief.

Republican Banner
Nov 23, 1865
From a gentleman who has been spending some time in various portions in the 
South we learn some sad facts in regard to the condition in which he found the 
people in Randolph County Alabama physicians told him that the people were 
actually dying for want of food, and death in many cases was resulting from the 
quantity of the food used. Many families could only get bread and that at very 
irregular intervals. There is little hope for relief our information states 
until another crop is raised. Where are the Good Samaritans who are willing to 
divide their subsistence with them, our unfortunate brethren? 

The Louisville Daily Courier 
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Ala., April 3O, 1867.
Sam'l A. Miller, gen'l ag't S. W. Relief Commission: 
Dean Sir,
I am a widow, and the mother of four boys the ages are. 14. 12, 10, and 8 years. 
My little boys and myself are the only cultivators of the land we have planted. 
I am out of corn and of every kind of bread stuff; have nothing to eat. Without 
some aid myself, and children will be bound to suffer and will finally be 
compelled to abandon our little home. I am far away from any relations and have 
been trying for several days to get some provisions or money by offering to 
mortgage my little farm and crop. but failed to do so. The majority of the 
people are in the same condition, and money or provisions cannot be had. If I 
had ten sacks of corn, I could make out to get along and make a small crop of 
cotton and corn. plenty to do us hereafter. Sometimes I get a little corn by 
drawing, but I only get a half a bushel at a time and have to go many miles 
after it, which lasts but a short time. I want you. if you please, to ship to me 
at West Point, Ga., ten sacks of corn, and write me at the same time you have 
done so; then I will contrive to get it home and go to work in good heart, I can 
make out with that amount. Bread is all I ask for. That amount will enable me to 
live now and hereafter. If you cannot send me ten sacks, please send me five. If 
you cannot give them to me, charge the same to me, and I will pay you in the 
fall. Write to me and let me know what you can do. Without aid I am forever 
ruined. I am respectfully, JANE E. MATHENY
[Jane Darnell-Matheny, w/o Thomas B. Matheny]



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