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Author: Himself, S. C. Alston

"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama 

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 8, 1931

HEFLIN RESIDENT ENJOYS OLD TIMER'S ARTICLE
( Letter from S.C. Alston)

Editor of the Cleburne News,

I read with much pleasure the sketch by A. J. Haley and decided I would write 
a few lines of my life.

I was born in Blairsville, Union county, Georgia on Sept. 15, 1848. So I was 
making mud pies and frog houses when Mr. Haley was born. I have married two 
good women, had seven children by my first wife. I reckon I would have been an 
office seeker but I was pressed in as a Bailiff during the trial of the Rowe 
and Chisolm murder cases which knocked all the office seeking fear out of my 
system. I was road commissioner for three terms and got cussed enough to last 
me through life, so I have been a "clod knocker" all my life and guess I will 
remain one as long as I can "cut the pigeon wing" and know the "back step."

I will sketch one of my school boy speeches: Has the old school exhibition 
gone forever more and the old schoolhouse deserted and the grass has choked 
the door, and the wind sweeps around the gable with a low, mournful whine 
and the boys not at the Birmingham, at Birmingham on the Rhine. S.C. Alston


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