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Title: A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Battey, George Magruder, 1887-1965
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Publisher: Atlanta, Webb and Vary Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t property on the Central of Geor-gia. Capt. Williamson was presentand denounced this statement as afalsehood. Correspondence transmittedthrough the hands of friends failedto bring an understanding, and theyagreed to fight it out with pistols atthe Alabama line. A boundary linewas convenient because duelists couldoften step from one state into anotherand avoid arrest; incidentally, thiswas the last duel fought under theold style in the South. That the duel was not fought onthe line was due to the vigilance ofGov. Seay and Gov. Gordon, who keptthe wires hot until a number of posseshad been formed along the border.They fought at the point of least re-sistance after several harrowingchases by the authorities; this wasclose to the R. & D. tracks, betweenLawrence and Farill, Ala., on theFarill plantation, about three mileseast of the place where Forrest cap-tured Streights men in 1863, fourmiles west of the Georgia line and18 miles west of Rome.* 326 A History of Rome and Floyd County.
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS THERE IS GREAT FUN. The children dance in glee when it snows or f .^^t -\f ,^terture.Boof their banks. Wading, bathing and ^^^^^/.^^^■^^•h^^s the Linton Dean homo place onSeSnfe°vrii;R:arne\i;risolatJd^.^ Xr.1./born,^^a?r ^otor crait riding eas. at the.rmoorings. Anecdotes and Reminiscences 327 Although gi-eat care had been takento keep the affair secret, the mothersand friends of several Romans whoboarded Capt. Williamsons private carwhen it stopped a minute at HowardStreet (Second Avenue) knew thatsomething unusual was going on. Asudden demand was created for loco-motives, due to the fact that at Chat-tanooga junction, about two mileswest of Rome, two of the newspapercorrespondents, Hurtel and Barrett*were diplomatically kicked off thetrain, and had to foot it back to town.Capt. Seay and Dr. J. B. S. Holmes as-sisted in getting Engineer W. T. Do-zier off the dummy line and in chargeof an engine. R. L. Haire and hisbrother, Paul Haire, rushed to For-restville

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