Cherokee County GaArchives History - Letters .....Bell, O. R. Writes Of Days Past; Born In Cherokee Co., Ga. November 22, 1936
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“The Cleburne News”
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, DECEMBER 3, 1936

LETTER FROM O.R. (Oscar) BELL of TEXAS

Mercedes, Texas

Nov. 22, 1936

The Cleburne News,

In reply to The News article of the 19th ("who remembers the old horse and 
buggy days when it wasn't considered queer to save up a few provisions for 
winter), I will say that I remember those days, having been born in Cherokee 
county, Ga. on July 2, 1851. My parents came to Chulafinnee in my fourth 
year; then moved to Bell Mills, where I called it home for some years, but 
have not been there in about 27 years, coming from Alabama to this place on 
the 14th day of April 1907, and have lived here since. There were only three 
houses then and the country unsettled. Now Mercedes has about 7,000 
inhabitants. I've been a citizen of this city 29 years last April.

I remember the "old horse and buggy days" very vividly; have had much 
experience in the last 85 years. I get the Cleburne News each Saturday and 
call it "receiving a letter from home" although I've not lived there for 
some years, but some of the old families are still there and I read of their 
comings and goings occasionally.

Respectfully,

O.R. Bell (known there as Oscar)


Additional Comments:
Mercedes is in Hidalgo Co., Texas

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