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- The title of the book is "Long Ago in Madison County" and was publishedby the Madison County Board of Education Huntsville, Alabama, copyright1964.
The foreword reads as follows:
" In 1805 John Hunt came to what is now known as Madison County from hishome in East Tennessee and settled with his family at the Big Spring.Within three years some three hundred families had joined him and wereliving in a settlement known as Hunt's Spring.
About the same time, many people came to live south of the Tennessee linein a triangular area which had been ceded by the Chickasaw and CherokeeIndians. Among this group was the Levi Hinds family who lived nearKnoxville, Tennessee.
The Hinds family reached Madison County by traveling down the rough trailfrom Winchester and crossing the southern boundary of Tennessee. Fortheir homestead they chose a beautiful valley west of Berry Mountainwhere they built a cabin, cleared fields, planted crops, and hoped thatsome day they would be able to buy the land they had cleared.
On December 13, 1808, Governor David Holmes of the Mississippi Territorycreated the County of Madison within the limits of the triangular areaceded by the Indians. The following year, a Federal land Office wasopened in Nashville, Tennessee, and on August 7, 1809, all of the publicland in Madison County was put on sale. There were so many people whowanted to buy farms that not all of the early settlers were able to getthe land they had already cleared.
Levi Hinds, however, was fortunate. He became the first man to purchaseland in Madison County, buying 320 acres in the beautiful valley where hehad settled. This acreage consisted of two quarter sections, theNortheast Quarter of Section 7 and the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, inTownship 3, Range 2 East.
In 1787 Levi Hinds had married Hulda Byram, a direct descendant of JohnAlden and Priscilla Mullens who had come to America in the Mayflower, andabout whom Longfellow wrote in his celebrated poem. Levi and Hulda Hindshad twelve children. It is about two of these children. Daniel and Milly,that the stories in this book are told.
These stories, based on the family of Levi Hinds were created in order togive children an understanding of life in pioneer days in Madison County."
An acknowledgement was given to Mrs. Kathleen P. Jones of New Market,Alabama for the material about the Levi Hinds family.
Stories include: To the Boys and Girls, Madison County, Off to the NewCountry, On the Way, Stopping for the Night, The New Country, Who is OverThere?, Building a Log Cabin, Work and Fun, Making Candles, Making Soap,Corn Planting Time, and A Visitor.
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Old Dead Relatives
1771 - 1868 (96 years)
