History of Corporal Fess WhitakerStandard printing Company, incorporated, 1918 - 152 страница 18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster. |
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... exam- ination . The doctors found by examining my neck , where the small tits in one's neck are , that. THE AUTHOR , AGE 10 EDDIE BROWN The good - natured schoolmaster UNCLE WESLEY BANKS. 122 History of Corporal Fess Whitaker.
... exam- ination . The doctors found by examining my neck , where the small tits in one's neck are , that. THE AUTHOR , AGE 10 EDDIE BROWN The good - natured schoolmaster UNCLE WESLEY BANKS. 122 History of Corporal Fess Whitaker.
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... Banks , of Big Cowen . Sammie boarded with my mother , and after the five months ' term of school was out Preacher Jim Caudill made up a sub- scription school at the mouth of Rockhouse at $ 1.00 each and mother signed for five , and she ...
... Banks , of Big Cowen . Sammie boarded with my mother , and after the five months ' term of school was out Preacher Jim Caudill made up a sub- scription school at the mouth of Rockhouse at $ 1.00 each and mother signed for five , and she ...
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... on Burton Hill , in a new log house , with no chimney and no floor in the house and a big. EDDIE BROWN The good - natured schoolmaster UNCLE WESLEY BANKS The " Buggar Man " school master. 16 History of Corporal Fess Whitaker ...
... on Burton Hill , in a new log house , with no chimney and no floor in the house and a big. EDDIE BROWN The good - natured schoolmaster UNCLE WESLEY BANKS The " Buggar Man " school master. 16 History of Corporal Fess Whitaker ...
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... Banks had been employed to teach the school , and by this time the school had the name of having the meanest lot of boys in it of any other school in Letcher County . I was called the leader . There were four of us called bad - Mason ...
... Banks had been employed to teach the school , and by this time the school had the name of having the meanest lot of boys in it of any other school in Letcher County . I was called the leader . There were four of us called bad - Mason ...
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... Banks had already brought in twelve long green oak switches before opening school . " Fess , " said he , " it's reported to me that you are the meanest , " and he took me by the hand and sure did like to beat me to death , and when he ...
... Banks had already brought in twelve long green oak switches before opening school . " Fess , " said he , " it's reported to me that you are the meanest , " and he took me by the hand and sure did like to beat me to death , and when he ...
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