Miscellaneous life histories and information on slavery.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
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Folder contains 20 pages compiled for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. • ~ary E. Livingston .9riter. "UNCLE FED NUNN" • Autauga, County. The psychiatrists attribute to most of humanity some degree of • mental disorders along certain lines. Indeed, according to their diagnoses, only a small per centage are wholly rational. Well, perhaps many of us, either by inheritance or contraction, po-ssess marked symptoms of eccentricities. Probably every community finds a profuse expression of constitutional peculiarity of temperament. There are a great many very queer people. In its early history, Autau aville, Alabama, was the domicile of the arcll-chasm of idiosyncracies in the person of ilie fabled "Uncle Fed(Theodore)Nunn". Like two illustrious pioneer families, the Carsons and the Nunns, he located at Autaugaville, Autauga County, rtlabama, 25 miles Rest of Lontgomery and four miles north of old Vernon Landing, on the Alabama river. By inheritance, he came into possession of considerable property, real estate etc. Embarking in the mercantile business, manufacturing, farmin etc. and by hard, continuous work, and most rigid frugality he succeded in amassin~ B handsome fortune, consisting of several thousand acres of fertile lands, hundreds of fine mules, beautiful spans of horses, carriages, a cotton mill, cotton ginnery, and a number of substantial brick stores, buildings, and scores of slaves. Very rough and uncouth, he boasted of very few who understood him, or were his friends. He was the embodiment of peculiarities. Ordinarily, he dressed just about like any wanderlust, haggard be~ar of...
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