The Southern States, March, 1894: An illustrated monthly magazine devoted to the SouthVarious
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Two families returned to stay; three more got lonesome here in the
woods and went back expecting to stay, and before they were back two
months acknowledged that they were homesick to come back and did come
back, as they liked the society here, as well as the fine weather and
good health. Everyone here now are here to stay, and most of them have
bought land.
We have such nice warm sunshine and weather in the winter. Health best
of any place we were ever located. Out of the seventy people in the
three years and eight months, have had eight persons sick enough to
go to bed. One two-year-old girl died; another three-months-old babe
died; she was well at midnight, found dead in bed in the morning; and
one woman fifty years old died with consumption, think hereditary, as
her father, mother and five brothers and sisters died with the same
disease. The three who died are counted in the eight sick, except the
babe.
The soil here is good and never fails to raise crops on account of
drouth or any other cause. We have raised fifty bushels shelled corn to
the acre on our poorest land, and a bushel of potatoes to twenty-four
hills, and in fact nearly all kind of crops are extra good. The county
is naturally suited to peaches, plums and grapes. General good crops
are corn, cotton, wheat, oats, timothy, clover, red top, blue grass,
blackberries, raspberries, apples, pears and quince.
Society is good; more church members in proportion to population than
any place I ever was in. Laws are enforced here better than any place I
ever lived.
This county is a peaceful and safe county to live in, as we have the
best of accommodating neighbors, as well as law-abiding citizens.
A General Answer to Many Letters of Inquiry.
A. K. FISHER, Abbeville, Ga.--My letter published some time ago in your
magazine brought me so many letters of inquiry concerning this section,
our mode of farming, cost of getting land ready for cultivation, etc.,
that it required a long letter to each, and I have been unable to
comply. I write this letter now to cover all the ground of inquiries.
Abbeville has about 2000 inhabitants, is county seat of Wilcox county,
Ga., is on the Savannah, Americus & Montgomery Railroad, sixty-five
miles east of Americus, where the railroad crosses the Ocmulgee river.
This river is navigable; Brunswick is near its mouth.
Abbeville has two churches--Methodist and Baptist; Presbyterians also
have service there. Schools generally are not as good as in most of
Northern States, but are gradually improving; have some teachers from
the North.
Heretofore the products from this section have been lumber, spirits
turpentine, rosin, cotton, some beef cattle and wool.
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