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Harris Churchwell, former Perryan, has published a book on the 12 th Georgia
Infantry Regiment and is working on a second book.
Loosening Corsets : a biography of Georgia's first woman in Congress
By Kristina Simms
Journal Contributor
Political junkies and
Georgia history lovers could
hardly do better for some
fun election season reading
than A. Louise Staman’s
new biography of Rebecca
Latimer Felton, entitled
Loosening Corsets.
Staman, a much pub
lished author who lives in
Macon, has done a fine job
depicting the life and times
of Rebecca Felton, a fiery
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4-H Poultry team: Back Row, from left, Destiny McLeod, Jazmin Thomas, Weslie Willaford, Morgan Collins. Front
Row:Ty Blackwell, Micah McCoy
Houston County 4-H team competes
in Southwest poultry judging event
Special to the Journal
Nine 4-H’ers from
Houston County competed
at the Southwest Area 4-H
Poultry Judging Contest in
Tifton on
April 25™. They matched
their poultry knowledge with
26 4-H teams from other
counties.
Team members prepared
for the event by attending
classes and workshops on
egg production, meat qual
ity, market egg candling,
exterior egg quality, broken
out egg quality, and poultry
parts' identification.
At the competition, all con
testants judged two classes of
live birds for egg production
and gave oral reasons for
their selections on one class.
In addition, they judged
carcasses for meat quality,
candled eggs to determine
freshness and grade, and
judged eggs for exterior and
broken-out quality.
Rachel Duryea, Billy
Gordy, Mallorie Tavlan, and
Katy Vorisek, represented
Houston County in the junior
division. Out of 130 Junior
participants, Rachel placed
11 th in the competition. As
a team, Houston County was
8™ overall. This was the
journalist, reformer, and
political activist in 19th
and early 20th century
Georgia.
Petite and pretty Rebecca,
wife of a physician-farmer
who also served as a US
Congressman, and even
found time to preach a bit
along the way, was definite
ly a steel magnolia.
She and her husband,
William Felton, didn’t mind
a bit speaking and writing
about controversial issues.
first poultry judging com
petition for all of the Junior
team members.
In the Senior Division,
Houston County 4-H was
represented by the team
of Morgan Collins, Day
Duryea,Jazmin Thomas,
and Weslie Williford and
Windy Williford. The Senior
team placed 3rd in compe
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They made enemies by cru
sading against convict leas
ing, children being sent to
jail with adults, and the
“age of consent” for girls
in Georgia being ten years
old.
Felton was also a strong
member of the Women’s
Christian Temperance
Union, which may sound
quaint and fussy to our
modern ears.
But one has to remember
thatalcoholism had become
tition, with Weslie earning
2 n d Highest scoring indi
vidual honors with a total
score of 883 of a possible
900. As a result of their
high scores, the members of
the Senior team have been
invited to represent Georgia
4-H’s Southwest District
at the State 4-H Poultry
Judging competition *at the
Former Perryan writes book on
12th Georgia Infantry Regiment
L. Harris Churchwell,
formerly of Perry, is
the author of a new
book, “Captains at Rest:
Biographical Sketches and
gravesites of Officers of
the 12 th Georgia Infantry
Regiment.”
The book, published by
Indigo Press in Macon,
contains descriptions of 77
officers who served in the
132 th Georgia Infantry
Regiment and under the
commands of General
Stonewall Jackson and
General Robert E. Lee.
There are biographies of
each officer, along with
almost an epidemic in the
post Civil War years, and
wives and children had no
protection from the abuse
of drunkards.
Families went hungry
when the head of house
hold blew his pay on hard
liquor.
For Rebecca’s dedicated
work she was railed against
from pulpit to political podi
um, and called an instru
ment of the devil, a scrib
bling female, and a destroy
University of Georgia in
Athens. The Poultry Judging
teams are coached by Stacey
Ellison, 4-H Agent.
For more information on
4-H projects and educational
judging events, please con
tact Stacey Ellison at the
Houston County Cooperative
Extension Office at 478-987-
2028.
family information, photo
graphs of the officers and
photographs of gravesites.
The book is written or
quick referencing
Many of the officers of
this regiment were killed,
maimed and held as pris
oners of war. According
to the author, “Only
a handful survived the
minie balls and the artil
lery shells to surrender at
Appomattox, Virginia on
April 9, 1865.”
Harris Churchwell,
a gradate of Georgia
Southern University and
a retired production man
er of Southern Womanhood.
Her husband was depict
ed as feeble and hen-pecked
because he allowed her to
express her opinions.
The fact is that not only
did he “allow her,” he
thought she was great and
egged her on !!
At age 80 she became a
suffragist, saying she was a
victim of taxation without
representation.
This was true, because
she had to pay taxes on her
farm but could not vote.
Over the years, times
changed, and Rebecca Felton
came to be admired for her
determination and her dedi
cation to worthy causes.
When she was 87 years
old, she was appointed to
fill a vacancy in the United
States Senate for one day,
after the incumbent died.
Senator Walter F.George,
of Vienna, who had been
elected to the position, gra
ciously delayed his own cer
tification for the office, so
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ager, is a descendant of a
soldier in Company C. A
member of the Sons of
the Confederate Veteans,
he is now writing a sec
ond book on the regiment
called “Seeking Glory.”
To obtain a copy con
tact Harris Churchwell
at 69 Leanora Drive,
Hawkinsville, GA 31036,
call (47780 783-1861 or
(478) 230-9709 or e-mail
hCchurchwell@msn.com.
that Rebecca Felton could
be sworn in.
A Georgia woman was,
therefore, the first woman
Senator in US history...if
only for a day! Hundreds
of women came from all
over the country to cheer
her admission to the
Senate.
And, if you think poli
tics is rough today, just
read Loosening Corsets,
and learn a bit about 19th
century politics in Georgia.
The language was vitupera
tive, the accusations were
libellous, and your oppo
nent might even pull a gun
on you or send the KKK
to your residence to hassle
you !
This is a well written and
exciting book.
If you want a good read, the
best way is to order it is from
www.TigerlronPress.com
or www.ALouiseStaman.
com, or www.Amazon.com
or at the Macon Barnes &
Noble.
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