Buried Silver Mystery Ties to Guntersville History
John Gunter the town’s namesake died in 1835 and was said to have buried about $5,000 in silver. Judge Louis Wyeth offered a 1883 guess, while T Harvey Wright located landmarks now underwater. The tale links kidnap and a 1837 bloody drama at the hilltop home and Gunter boat landing.
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John Knox
John Gunter
Guntersville
Louis Wyeth
Guntfersville
White House
Wright
Gunter
Edward
Samuel
John
Bishop McFerrin
Old Creek Crossing
Wyeth
John, II
Huntsville
Marshall County
John C. Johnson
Col
Nathaniel Steele
Potter
Sherif Alexander Riddle
Orphans’ Court
Wallen P. Macfarlane
Cornelius Allen
William H. Wiggs
George W. Allen
Combine
James Macfarlane
Eli R. Feemster
George Allen
Steeles
Claysville
Tennessee
War on Poverty prompts financial legal aid push nationwide
The article reports a new push under the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to provide financial and legal services for the poor. Officials cite gaps in access to credit, budgeting, and debt relief and plan neighborhood centers with full-time lawyers to assist with auto repossessions, divorces, appeals, and consumer scams.
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Sylvia Porter
Washington
U.S
Nicholas de B. Katzenback
Katzenbach
District of
Colum
Humphrey Eyes No New Civil Rights Legislation Proposals
Vice President elect Hubert Humphrey says he will report to President Johnson with only suggestions to improve civil rights actions and loans to high risk borrowers and consumer education. He plans no new legislation beyond coordinating the antipoverty and civil rights programs and may face space issues in the Capitol as he prepares for Senate duties.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Johnson
Humphrey
Field
Minnesota
Congress
Capitol Building
Senate
White House
Capitol
Ohnson
Desperate cattle raid tests bonds of two veterans
In Texas, Shawan McCord from Ireland and Abner Parketts, a Texan with Indian heritage and former Confederate, bond in a Brownsville hospital. After a camp raid destroys their consolate, Tom Dolan guides them through loss as they chase cattle, confront ambushes, and face the fallout with Abner's sister Dale Varney and a grieving father at the store on the porch.
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Claysville
James Macfarlane
Macfarlane
Gunter Place
Wyeth
Col. Steele
Shawan McCord
Ireland
Abner Parketts
Brownsville
Tom Dolan
Texas
Shawan
Abner
Parketts
Parketts’ Range
Joe Varney
Dolan
Joe
A McCord
McCord
Tom
Varney
Dale Varney
Parketties
Betty Par Ketts
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Knox
T. Harvey Wright
Georgia
Blountsville
Arab
T. Harvey
North Carolina
South Carolina
F. Harvey Wright
Judge Wyeth
Sandy Kravitz
Wall Street Journal
Graves Steele
HHH
the Hall Syndicate, Inc
Oern
West
Desperation Valley
John Hunter
From
The
Macmillan Co. Ballard
Todhunter
King Wectoree Mynciants
Blue Fork
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