A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . py, but can cover ground. Hishome is in the rear of the place wherehe works. Lou Cothran: For 25 years cookand nurse for the Moultrie family andnow nurse of the Ernest E. Lindseychildren. Ellen Pentecost Daniel: A slave ofCol. Alfred Shorter. She died in Octo-ber, 1914, at the ripe old age of of the most appetizing cooks inher day. She was my nurse and Iunderstand held the bottle for quitea number of Romans, all of whom re-member her affec
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . py, but can cover ground. Hishome is in the rear of the place wherehe works. Lou Cothran: For 25 years cookand nurse for the Moultrie family andnow nurse of the Ernest E. Lindseychildren. Ellen Pentecost Daniel: A slave ofCol. Alfred Shorter. She died in Octo-ber, 1914, at the ripe old age of of the most appetizing cooks inher day. She was my nurse and Iunderstand held the bottle for quitea number of Romans, all of whom re-member her affectionately. Poor oldsoul; she never rusted, but wore her-self out. Steve Eberhart (or Perry) : Pro-fession, whitewasher. Steve came toRome about 20 years ago from Athens,where he was the slave in the warof Col. Abraham Eberhart. He is themascot of the Confederate Veterans ofRome, and in his attempts to attendevery reunion of the Boys in Graycollects a lot of money under variousfalse pretenses, and gets away with of his whitewash might well beused on himself, for he is as blackas African midnight and nearly as Encyclopedic Section 371 ^1. OLD-TIME DARKIES WITH THEIR HABITS ON. The South owes much to its ante-bellum population, and will always remember them withdeep affection. In this group we get a glimpse of a number of well-known characters caughthere and there. Included are the old sprinkler sprucing up the yard of the First Presbyterianchurch; Steve Eberhart in a fowl escapade, Aunt Martha Stevenson, Aunt Cheney,Augustus Sams, Bob Lake and others. 372 A History of Rome and Floyd County. small as a chinquepin, but he carrieshimself with an erectile strut that im-mediately becomes a dissembling sham-ble when he wants to pass around thehat. At reunion time he puts on hisartillery uniform of red and gray, andlays a barrage of profanity that with-ers every new-fangled darkey thatcrosses his path. Under his arm is hispet rooster, borrowed from a conven-ient hen-house, and s
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