Hello, my paternal ancestors were most likely some of those black men watering their mules in Gough, GA. My family are Palmers, Jordan’s, Rollins, Hines, Moores and others all sharecroppers living in Gough. My great grandfather was a descendant of a white slave owner named George Palmer. I’d love to hear more stories or if there is a book, buy a copy. Are you aware of any extant business journals for the community general store? Thank you for sharing your stories. Elaine McGill temcgill@bellsouth.net
Dear Elaine,
Thank you for your comments-I obviously brought to life memories of your own famiy’s experience in the dusty little town of Gough. I have written a collection of stories set in Gough still in search of a publisher. I do some literary writing that I do not post on my website (Longleafjournal.com) because most editors will not publish previously published works-even though they may only have come out on a website. If you will refer back to the opening page by searching longleafjournal.com, you will find listed all my earlier articles. Many of them are set in Gough and are about events there-and about my families (KItchens, Gays, Segos, Hudsons, and Barrows). But my roots are deeper still in neighboring Jefferson, Richmond and Glascock Counties. I recall the Banks and Thigpin stores. mu grandfther Sego’s garage, my grandfather White Kitchens’ Bank of Gough, and my uncle, Dr.Joe Hudson’s tiny medical office. The University of Georgia’s Hargrett Library Archives likely has some early store records. I’l check on line to see if there are any from Burke County. My recent article on banking covers the banking crisis and inflation that powered the exodus of so many share croppers, Black and white, out of the farms and even out of the state by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the early 1920s’.
I am currently workng on a book about Georgia in the post war era of the early twenties-a period that has been largely neglected by historians. A couple of historical works that will suggest to you what life was like in the small south Gerogia towns in the 1920s are William Rawlings, A Killing at Ringjaw Bluff and the Death of Small Town Georgia (Mercer University Press) and the novel Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. Caldwell lived near Gough growing up in Wrens.The book angered many middle class church goers, but it conveys much about life in the tobacco/cotton belt of east Georgia. I am sure I will think of others. Again, so glad this look at small town life in the 1920’s awakened those often painful, but also heartwarming events in the lives of the courageous and often devout people who endured the incredible hardhsips and loses of this era.
Joe
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Hello, my paternal ancestors were most likely some of those black men watering their mules in Gough, GA. My family are Palmers, Jordan’s, Rollins, Hines, Moores and others all sharecroppers living in Gough. My great grandfather was a descendant of a white slave owner named George Palmer. I’d love to hear more stories or if there is a book, buy a copy. Are you aware of any extant business journals for the community general store? Thank you for sharing your stories. Elaine McGill temcgill@bellsouth.net
Dear Elaine,
Thank you for your comments-I obviously brought to life memories of your own famiy’s experience in the dusty little town of Gough. I have written a collection of stories set in Gough still in search of a publisher. I do some literary writing that I do not post on my website (Longleafjournal.com) because most editors will not publish previously published works-even though they may only have come out on a website. If you will refer back to the opening page by searching longleafjournal.com, you will find listed all my earlier articles. Many of them are set in Gough and are about events there-and about my families (KItchens, Gays, Segos, Hudsons, and Barrows). But my roots are deeper still in neighboring Jefferson, Richmond and Glascock Counties. I recall the Banks and Thigpin stores. mu grandfther Sego’s garage, my grandfather White Kitchens’ Bank of Gough, and my uncle, Dr.Joe Hudson’s tiny medical office. The University of Georgia’s Hargrett Library Archives likely has some early store records. I’l check on line to see if there are any from Burke County. My recent article on banking covers the banking crisis and inflation that powered the exodus of so many share croppers, Black and white, out of the farms and even out of the state by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the early 1920s’.
I am currently workng on a book about Georgia in the post war era of the early twenties-a period that has been largely neglected by historians. A couple of historical works that will suggest to you what life was like in the small south Gerogia towns in the 1920s are William Rawlings, A Killing at Ringjaw Bluff and the Death of Small Town Georgia (Mercer University Press) and the novel Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. Caldwell lived near Gough growing up in Wrens.The book angered many middle class church goers, but it conveys much about life in the tobacco/cotton belt of east Georgia. I am sure I will think of others. Again, so glad this look at small town life in the 1920’s awakened those often painful, but also heartwarming events in the lives of the courageous and often devout people who endured the incredible hardhsips and loses of this era.
Joe
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