The Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor

Reverend David Young Register, my grandfather Will Young Register's first cousin. I visited Cousin Young's house in 1959.

Great to connect with you, Robert. Please feel free to post any of your recollections and research here for all of us to enjoy. I was born on a farm just west of Wesley Chapel Methodist church in January 1947. Gilley Mill Creek is located in District 3 in Geneva County. It crosses Geneva Co Rd 41 about a mile north of its + with Alabama Hwy 52, which runs between Hartford on the east and Geneva on the west. Gilley Mill creek flows into the Choctawhatchee River north of the bridge at Geneva and south of the Bellwood bridge. I remember spending Sunday afternoons in the late 1950s and early 1960s riding the mule and donkey at the clay pit. I went home from church at Wesley Chapel with my cousins, Mary Effie Conner and her children, Dovie, Lill, David, Bill and Patricia and young Tommy. They lived in a house that Brother Register owned up the hill from his home at the foot of the hill on the south side of Gilley Mill Creek on Co Rd 41. The clay pit set behind their house. We look forward to your contributions and recollections. You can e mail me- jimfrankmartin@gmail.com 215 anna st apt 86 scott louisiana 70583

Clements Bend on the Warrior in Hale County is not far from Archie's. Clements Bend Topo Map in Hale County, Alabama

Greensboro Sea Scouts March 2, 1961

In Clements Bend, a number of Negroes own their own small farms, and apparently they were unaware of the severity of the flood until Saturday. It was at that point that the rescue efforts in the Bend started. Motorboats operated by Clarence Lawson, Julian Washburn, Gene Gates and James Phillips were first on the scene. At mid- day, the Sea Scout boat, under the command of Hobson Payne and C.L. Kelly, came back from a trip upstream, and ferried scores of these Negroes to safety. On one trip, there were 79 Negroes aboard the Sea Scout Ship, which is an old Naval vessel acquired several years ago for the local boys by Congressman Selden. Many of the Negroes were standing knee-deep in water at their homes. They were taken to the Sea Scout Ship, and then transferred by other boat operators.

In all, more than 100 were taken out of Clements Bend. They ranged from babies two or three days old to ancient men and women, bent by arthritis..