Appling-Bacon County GaArchives News.....Pioneers of the 4th district  Appling County January 4, 1908
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Baxley Banner January 4, 1908
Anent the papers of previous herald, referring to the years apace, one-half 
century ago, people are existent, however distant and painfully separate. Eyes 
are unaccustomed to behold the roads filled with humanity and roads are dim 
trails and in fact non discernible in this fifty years ago settling. Half a 
century gone, the rapid stride of civilization here – but think back dear: 
imagine in your most fertile conception what a forest dense in pines, and 
branch swamps, jungled and thick, means to dig up the roots, girdle the tree, 
fell the monarch stately pines, and no help, but far, far away, and only two 
hands, an indomitable will and a strong arm, with a hoe cake of corn on the 
hearth, meat on the gridiron, coffee in the boiler, then you can conceive 
partly what the sires and dames of ye early time had to encounter with to open 
up a forest home. The axe and maul in hand, the wedge and glut near by, a 
determination and decision equal to the emergency, this pair worked on and on 
till they were rewarded by a most excellent farm, productive and yielding 
everything that human hands could prepare and hearts desirej1. (This excerpt 
was written about the families that were in the 4th district) AHW Marquis
Baxley Banner 1908

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