And now our book is at its end. How well it serves the purpose for
which it was produced, the reader will determine. We gratefully
recognize the substantial services rendered by friends, as during the
past ten years we have hunted and gleaned for subject matter. The
author is under special obligations to Messrs P. W. Williamson, F. D.
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walker, Rev. T. W. Walker, Dr. Waldrop, Dr.
and Mrs. Pettiford, Mrs. Rachel Jenkins, Mrs. H. C. Bryant, Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Simpson, of Birmingham; Mr. Tom Posey, Bessemer, and Hon. H.
A. Loveless, of Montgomery.
To such as may feel disposed to credit me with the ability to continue
at work, I would say that but for the faithful toil and sacrifice of my
wife, Mrs. M. A., and of my daughter, Miss Octavia B. Boothe, it is
hardly likely that my name would now appear in its humble place on the
roll of writers. They have borne the burden with me, and we together
have performed these humble tasks. With them I cheerfully divide my
meagre honors. The writer lays down his pen at the end of a pleasant
but arduous task, fully believing that what we have done is but the bud
and prophecy of what we can and will do in the years to come. This book
can only tell of our infancy and youth while the historian who shall
come upon the stage after twenty or thirty years beyond this date, will
bring forth a book wherein shall appear a portraiture of our ripened
manhood, out of which shall have grown great enterprises, manned by
unity, wisdom, wealth and righteousness.
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