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Woman Latvyer9RecordsGoTALLADEGA -Alabama’sfirst woman lawyer — an Anniston native who now livesin Talladega — decided it was■ II4time to put her lifetime accumulation of family records to work.Maude McLure Kelly’s collection of primary source material covers every county in the state and represents some 70 years of detailed work on her part to assemble a collection valued “into six figures.”j Jackson StaleaGrand Jury Saysf •4 iIBPolice JustifiedJACKSON, Miss. fAP) - A county grand jury says police were justified in opening fire during a campus confrontation in which two young Negroes were killed and nine wounded at Jackson State College Maywhitewash we expected.”“It’s a deliberate attempt to cover up the murder of two young men,” Waites declared.The grand jury said, “We find that under the riot conditions then existing, the of-.‘Tt was either store it away or put it where people can use it,” she said.She donated the collection — which weighs more than a ton — to the Samford University library.Included in the material are public records, family letters,minutes of governmentmeetings, and military rosters.“I was a pack rat who liked to keep all the old papers and things,” said Miss Kelly.She said she had difficulty selecting some of the moreinteresting examples of her collection.She told of her grandfather, Col. Samuel Camp Kelly, who left his position as mayor of Oxford to fight in the Civil War.“My grandfather was one of the earliest settlers ofCalhoun County in 1834,” she said.“My grandfather would write to his wife, sometimes taking notes four or five times a day,” she said.“Sometimes he didn’t haveany paper except the paper from her letter to him,” said Miss Kelly. “So he would turn her letter upside down and write between the lines.”The result is a complete collection of a correspondence between a husband and wife during the war.Miss Kelly’s law practice offered her an opportunity to gather a mass of public documents.She began her practice in 1908 after special state legislation permitted her to enter the field.“They all said I couldn’t practice law, but I did itanyway,” she said.To Samford“Everybody looked at melike a freak from the circus. ‘There goes a woman lawyer’ they’d say,” said Miss Kelly.Her first cases were police cases.a lot of practice.”At Samford. PresidentLeslie S. Wright in announcing the gift called it “a bonanza of historical source material.”“1 had a lot more men than women, to my surprise,”she said. There were a lot of men who wanted to have a woman lawyer, so I gotMiss Kelly says she did it because she loves people. She added, “And I love Calhoun County. . ^ I’ll never have any other place as deep in my heart.CORRECTIONPole Beans Should Not Have Appeared In OurWednesday, July 29th Ad, This Was An Error.DEARS CURB MARKET1800 NOBLE ST.
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1970
Page 11
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