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Oct. 7, 1540 – The DeSoto Expedition passed through in
Indian village of Humati, which was probably situated on the west bank of the
Alabama River, just north of Camden, in Wilcox County.
Oct. 7, 1763 - In the aftermath of the French and Indian
War, Britain's King George III established the colonies of East and West
Florida by royal proclamation. West Florida's northern boundary was set at
the 31st parallel, which today forms most of Alabama's boundary with Florida.
Oct. 7, 1835 – Former Georgia senator and U.S. federal judge
Charles Tait passed away at the age of 67 near Claiborne and was buried in Dry
Forks Cemetery on his country estate in Wilcox County.
Oct. 7, 1849 – Around 5 a.m., horror writer Edgar Allan Poe
died at the age of 40 at the Washington Medical College in Baltimore, Md.
Oct. 7, 1850 – George O. Miller acquired the Tristram Bethea
House (also known as Pleasant Ridge) at Canton Bend in Wilcox County after
Bethea moved to Mobile. Miller paid $2,800 for the house, which was built in
1842, and 157 acres.
Oct. 7, 1864 - Union troops turned back General Robert E.
Lee's assault at the Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm) near Richmond,
Virginia.
Oct. 7, 1864 - The Union warship USS Wachusett illegally
captured the Confederate raider CSS Florida. The Rebel ship was in port at
Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
Oct. 7, 1889 – Two people were convicted of “disturbing religious
worship” and were fined $80 in Monroe County Court in Monroeville,Ala.
Oct. 7, 1890 – Jesse Hildreth, George Ford and Frank
Marshall help John S. McDuffie of Monroe County and Jefferson Davis “Dixie”
Carter of Myrtlewood capture wanted train robber Rube Burrow at Ford’s cabin at
Boneyville, about two miles east of Myrtlewood in Marengo County. From there,
McDuffie and Carter took Burrow to Linden.
Oct. 7, 1892 – In Monroe County, “perhaps the most brutal
crime ever in the county occurred on the west side of the river in the King
neighborhood” on this night. Richard L. Johnson, “an aged gentleman from the
north who moved into the community a short time previously, was called to the
door and brained with an axe, his daughter outraged and the bodies of both
consumed in their burning home.” Four men were arrested, confronted with
evidence against them, confessed and were put in jail. “In the dead hours of
night, a mob stormed the prison, took the miscreants there from and meted out
punishment.”
Oct. 7, 1905 – William Gandy, about 18 years old, was
crushed to death by a falling tree near Mexia. Gandy, his father and another
man were in a wagon on a public road when they saw a large pine in the act of
falling. Gandy urged the horses on, but was caught beneath the tree and crushed
by “the ponderous weight of the trunk.” The father and other man jumped from
the wagon, and the father was slightly injured.
Oct. 7, 1914 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Editor
Abe Lehman had sold The Greenville Living Truth to V.R. Thagard, who changed
the name of the paper to The Greenville Ledger.
Oct. 7, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. Hance F. Stokes
of Jackson “died from disease.”
Oct. 7, 1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated
Cumberland College, 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never
threw a pass.
Oct. 7, 1928 – In Lovecraftian fiction, Randolph Carter
vanished in the ruins of his family’s ancestral mansion outside Arkham. Carter
first appeared in “The Statement of Randolph Carter” by H.P. Lovecraft.
Oct. 7, 1933 – W.Y. Fleming, the principal of the Second
District Agricultural School in Evergreen, announced in Montgomery that he
would not enter the race for State Superintendent of Education as had been
rumored.
Oct. 7, 1956 - Al Carmichael of the Green Bay Packers
returned a kickoff 106 yards to set an NFL record.
Oct. 7, 1984 - Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton
became the NFL’s all-time rushing leader, breaking the record Cleveland’s Jim
Brown set in 1965. In front of 53,752 people at Soldier Field, Payton carried
the ball 154 yards and finished the game with a new career rushing record
-12,400 yards, 88 more than Brown.
Oct. 7, 1998 – Rikard’s Mill was added to Alabama Register
of Landmarks and Heritage.
Oct. 7, 2009 – A bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to
the National Statuary Hall Collection.
Oct. 7, 2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit
his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major league record.
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