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The Wondrous McCrarys - Alabama Pioneers: Same Family, Same Farm, 200 Years (Paperback)
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The Wondrous McCrarys - Alabama Pioneers: Same Family, Same Farm, 200 Years (Paperback)
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Loot Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
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The Alabama-original Thomas McCrary was a single, 20-year-old
settler of the first North Alabama county who came into that wild
country in 1809 on the heels of departing Cherokees and Chickasaws.
He had some means, but mostly in his favor was a wagon load of
ambition. He married a young lady who bore four children then died,
then married his first wife's cousin; she raised one child to
maturity, a son--and that son's eleven offspring were sufficient to
occupy, comfortably, the expansive tract of some 2,250 acres the
first Thomas eventually accrued. Early, the McCrarys had a hundred
slaves to count on as Thomas branched out to many other endeavors:
cotton factor, entrepreneur in several agricultural enterprises,
and member of the county governing body. This all came tumbling
down in the Civil War; brief weeks after it ended in 1865, he died
without a will, insolvent. His survivors regrouped, paid his debts,
and managed to retain, to this day, most of his extensive land
holdings. This makes the McCrary farm the oldest in Alabama, still
owned and operated by the family of the original settler, who
arrived ten years before Alabama became a state, an attainment his
spirited energy helped achieve.
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