Lamar County Kin

Lamar County Kin
Author: Barbara Woolbright Carruth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-11-08
Genre: Lamar County (Ala.)
ISBN: 9781979047395

A collection of stories, written or collected by Barb Carruth of the people of Lamar County, Alabama. Many are untold, interesting and informative to read.Note from Barb: "It is my intent for this book to serve as an easy reference in the reader's search of Lamar County people. I focus on many who have been forgotten, bringing their stories to life again. I am not a writer but a COLLECTOR of local historical information which may help you discover your family history or solve your family mystery. Barb is well known as a researcher of the early history of Lamar County Alabama as well as Fayette, Marion, Pickens, and Winston counties in Alabama and Monroe County, Mississippi for over twenty years.

Our Calvert Kin

Our Calvert Kin
Author: Dewel C. Lott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 670
Release: 1973
Genre: Alabama
ISBN:

Vol. 2 includes index.

Kith and Kin

Kith and Kin
Author: Carolyn Lawton Harrell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780865540903

William Lawton (1723-1757) immigrated from England to Charleston County, South Carolina during or before 1737, married three times, and moved in 1744 to Edisto Island, Colleton County, South Carolina. Descen- dants and relatives lived in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and elsewhere.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1918
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Texas. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 962
Release: 1917
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Author: Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807876135

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house, sewing clothing, cultivating and cooking food, and bearing and raising children. But despite their contributions to the southern agricultural economy, rural women's stories have remained largely untold. Using oral history interviews and written memoirs, Rebecca Sharpless weaves a moving account of women's lives on Texas cotton farms. She examines how women from varying ethnic backgrounds--German, Czech, African American, Mexican, and Anglo-American--coped with difficult circumstances. The food they cooked, the houses they kept, the ways in which they balanced field work with housework, all yield insights into the twentieth-century South. And though rural women's lives were filled with routines, many of which were undone almost as soon as they were done, each of their actions was laden with importance, says Sharpless, for the welfare of a woman's entire family depended heavily upon her efforts.