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Subject: Memorial Day Weekend
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 10:50:33 EDT


I hope you had a pleasant weekend. My weekend plans were messed up by an
uninvited visitor who came to "challenge" me to correct his research.
I declined to take the time.

However, it made me realize that I probably needed to gather all my material
and place it in a better place than file cabinets and bookcases in my bedroom,
in case it is ever needed for rebuttal in a class action suit against Forsyth
County. It is now over 92 years after the fact.

I was told that Martin Luther King and a team of lawyers searched part of
this history in the 1960s. I may run down to the King Center in Atlanta and see
if I can locate his work to quote in mine. I haven't been there since 1987.
When I first moved to Georgia, I worked in the area where the center is now
located.

I have found one of my notebooks and have been browsing thru the one with the
punched photocopies of some of the deeds (B).

I started by looking up George and Martha Bailey. I had forgotten that on
Nov. 28, 1910 they owned one gray mare about 9 years old that weighed about 900
pounds. Their land borderered the Dawson County line on the North. It began "at
a beach (sic - should be beech) and ran down the creek to a chestnut"

Under B, I started with a note on Winnie Bagby, a colored woman, 115 years
old. According the Clarion of March 6, 1885, she was buried "Wed. last".
If I used the perpetual calenar right, March 6th was a Friday.
I don't know if "Wed last" means she was buried on March 4th or Feb. 25th.

Donna Parrish

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