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Descendants of slaves hold out against coal mining [Coal Companies Now are RACIST?]
AP/yahoo ^ | 9/1/13 | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

Posted on 09/01/2013 9:33:57 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

DIRGIN, Texas (AP) — Ida Finley smiles wistfully, recalling how she used to cook for an entire East Texas community — nearly all descendants of slaves...

Now, just weeks from her 102nd birthday, Finley faces the prospect of losing the land worked by her husband and his parents, slaves who toiled for a master.

For three years, Luminant Mining Co. has tried to purchase this 9.1-acre plot, which is currently owned by a bevy of relatives spread across the country. The company owns more than 75 percent of the parcel but can't mine it because of a complex inheritance arrangement and the refusal of some family members to let go or accept Luminant's offer.

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To: JCBreckenridge

Knew one named Laura. She supposedly 7 or 8 in 1861. She
lived in a house on our place. She told me about the Indians
that came to the red clay hill for 6 days or so every year
until the late 1930s. She said everyone around had to pen up their chickens when they were present. Hill was on our place
and was less than a 1/4 mile from her house.
She told me this in 1946 to 48 time frame, I was born in 40.


21 posted on 09/01/2013 11:22:05 AM PDT by TweetEBird007
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To: Bryanw92

You, sir, are a genius! You have unlocked the liberal mindset!


22 posted on 09/01/2013 11:27:37 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: JCBreckenridge

My grandmother was born in 1896. She heard about the War of Northern Aggression from her grandparents who endured Sherman’s “March”.

In 1995 I read the obituary of Percival Hopkins Spencer, an aviation pioneer who had just died at the age of 97. His pilot’s license had been personally signed by Orville Wright. His father, Christopher Miner Spencer was 64 when he was born and was the inventor of the Spencer repeating rifle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Miner_Spencer

“Although the Spencer rifle had been developed as early as 1859, it was not initially used by the Union. On August 18, 1863, Christopher Spencer walked into the White House carrying one of his rifles and a supply of cartridges. He walked past the sentries, and into Abraham Lincoln’s office. After some discussion, he returned the following afternoon, when Spencer and Lincoln were joined by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and other officials, and the group then proceeded to walk out on the Mall. Near the site of the Washington Monument, they engaged in target shooting.”


23 posted on 09/01/2013 11:38:00 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
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To: old gringo

You must be getting up there sir!


24 posted on 09/01/2013 11:49:15 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: SoFloFreeper

Her house, her rules. It’s not like she’s got a lot of time left. Let an old woman live in peace.


25 posted on 09/01/2013 11:56:56 AM PDT by stormer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks SoFloFreeper.


26 posted on 09/01/2013 12:00:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: X-spurt
What “complex inheritance arrangement”? They hardly ever follow the law regarding title and transfer. East Texas Holderpeople rarely record land transfers in inheritances.

Anytime trying to purchase land connected to such undivided heirships is a title nightmare and invariably there is one in the bunch that refuses to go along thinking they should get 10 times the value.

The 9 acres is probably one of 15 heirs and likely 1/2 mile long and 50 feet wide an not useful for doodley except extorting the power company.


Yeah...the "complex inheritance arrangement" is probably the Texas statutes on intestate descent and distribution, which is generally the only type of estate planning used by East Texas Holderfolk.
27 posted on 09/01/2013 12:15:23 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: TennTuxedo; SoFloFreeper
"the land mined is almost always uninhabitable due to harsh slopes"

You are confusing mountain top mining and strip mining.

For those unfamiliar with Luminant, it is part of Energy Future Holdings which is the company formed as the result of the leveraged buyout of TXU a few years ago. This was the largest LBO in US history and it took two private equity firms to pull it off.

EFH is one of many, including Sarah Palin and T. Boone Pickens, who didn't get it right on the price of natural gas

This story gives a double entrende to the term vulture capitalism. First: LBOs, corporate raiders, vulture capitalism. Second: Luminant being the vulture waiting for these old people to die.

Luminant is having severe emissions problems from burning the soft brown lignite, but they are so far in debt they don't have the money to burn the bituminous coal imported from the Powder River.

28 posted on 09/01/2013 12:47:10 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: JCBreckenridge

72


29 posted on 09/01/2013 1:15:22 PM PDT by old gringo
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To: old gringo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Williams_(centenarian)

Is this your man?


30 posted on 09/01/2013 1:44:49 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: 17th Miss Regt; SunkenCiv

The company should have shown it is even-handed by mining some white coal.


31 posted on 09/01/2013 1:56:38 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: JCBreckenridge
The link you provided did not work. Here is a working link:

Walter Williams

32 posted on 09/01/2013 2:20:12 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

Thanks. Unfortunately for the real veterans - William’s a fraud. The census shows he was born 12 years later than he claimed, and was just 11 when the war ended, showing a Walter Williams from Itawamba County Missippi and his family born 1854, and travelled to Texas in 1870 - exactly when Walter claimed he moved there.


33 posted on 09/01/2013 2:29:11 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: Cowboy Bob

You are using White math and that’s racist.


34 posted on 09/01/2013 2:35:45 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Lots of folks walk away when its a passel of “chillrins (adult)” heirholders. Sometimes Title companies have had to research back to before “Reconstruction” to find unclouded. Still there are horror stories of years later another one popping up “wantin dare parit”.

The oil co. is probably only wanting the minerals. My Ol Granddad told us to never sell your minerals. Even on small mineral holder portions leases usually will get that $300 offer to sign + 15 / 18%.


35 posted on 09/01/2013 2:41:00 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missle - armed and ready.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

You got it.

I think they think if heired land is undivided they won’t have to pay taxes on it. This is where tax appraisal districts have to really earn their money figuring those messes out and taxes ever being paid ahead of a sale.


36 posted on 09/01/2013 2:46:33 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missle - armed and ready.)
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To: Ben Ficklin

No. I am a supplier to the coal industry. I am in coal pits almost daily. IN Alabama and Eastern KY, and West Virginia, the coal pits are in hilly areas, but not so much in the mountains.


37 posted on 09/01/2013 8:34:32 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: TennTuxedo
This coal mining area in Texas is not hilly. The removed overlay is piled up which results in hills.

Often times these operations are classified by how they dispose of the overlay. In those mountainous areas close to your location where they are mountain top strip mining, the overlay aka waste aka fill is dumped in ravines or hollows.. It is often called "head of the hollow" dumping. And as you pointed out, these ravines, or hollows, that get filled become level land which can be developed.

38 posted on 09/02/2013 4:34:10 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: JCBreckenridge
Perhaps, or perhaps not. Unfortunately record keeping of births were not exactly known for their accuracy back in those days for the entire country, and even worse in the south. The other side of the coin is that the Civil War had more than a few child soldiers, especially on the South's side. So it is really unclear if he was a fake or not. Being from the South though means that he did indeed see action in the Civil War even if he was in fact not a soldier in the Civil War. The problem is there really is no way to definitively state if he was or was not a fake.

Last soldier to die during Civil War - Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana Regiment Volunteer Infantry. Died in the Battle of Palmito Ranch on may 13, 1865.

Albert Woolson of Minnesota was a Union drummer boy who died in 1956, and the Civil War’s last authenticated survivor.

Albert Woolson: The Last Living Civil War Veteran

Walter Williams, last Civil War vet, in his bed with a cigar in his mouth and Confederate flag.

All Posters website

Child Soldiers

Unlike later wars in American history, young people were involved in all aspects of the Civil War, including fighting on the battlefield. William Black, the youngest wounded soldier, was twelve when his left hand and arm were shattered by an exploding shell. An unknown number of soldiers—probably around five percent—were under eighteen, and some were as young as ten.

Statewide Civil Vital Records in the United States

Following is a chart showing the dates when the law for registering births and deaths was passed in each state and when the state reached the 90 percent registration required for entering the National Registration Area (see reference 5). A state-by-state synopsis follows the chart.

 

State

Date Birth & Death Registration Required by Law

 90% Completeness Admitted to U.S. Registration

Birth                          Death

Alabama

1908

1927

1925

Alaska

1960 (1913)

1950

1950

Arizona

1909

1926

1926

Arkansas

1914

1927

1927

California

1905

1919

1906

Colorado

1907

1928

1906

Connecticut

1897

1915

1890

Delaware

1861-63, 1881, 1913

1921

1890

District of Columbia

Births: 1873. Deaths: 1854, except 1861-65

1915

1880

Florida

1899

1924

1919

Georgia

1919

1928

1922

Hawaii

Births: 1847    Deaths: 1841

1929

1917

Idaho

Jul 1911

1926

1922

Illinois

1916

1922

1918

Indiana

Oct 1907

1917

1900

Iowa

1 Jul 1880

1924

1923

Kansas

Jul 1911

1917

1914

Kentucky

1911

1917

1911

Louisiana

1918

1927

1918

Maine

1892

1915

1900

Maryland

1898

1916

1906

Massachusetts

1841

1915

1880

Michigan

Births: 1906    Deaths: 1898

1915

1900

Minnesota

1908

1915

1910

Mississippi

1912

1921

1919

Missouri

1910

1927

1911

Montana

1907

1922

1910

Nebraska

1904

1920

1920

Nevada

1 Jul 1911

1929

1929

New Hampshire

1883

1915

1890

New Jersey

Jul 1878

1921

1980

New Mexico

Jan 1920

1929

1929

New York (except New York City)

1915

1915

1890

North Carolina

1 Oct 1913

1917

1910

North Dakota

1907

1924

1924

Ohio

10 Dec 1908

1917

1909

Oklahoma

1917

1928

1928

Oregon

1903

1919

1918

Pennsylvania

1906

1915

1906

Rhode Island

1896

1915

1890

South Carolina

1915

1919

1916

South Dakota

1920

1932

1906

Tennessee

1914

1927

1917

Texas

1903

1933

1933

Utah

1905

1917

1910

Vermont

1919 (1777)

1915

1890

Virginia

1912

1917

1913

Washington

1907

1917

1908

West Virginia

1925

1925

1925

Wisconsin

1 Oct 1907

1917

1908

Wyoming

1909

1922

1922


39 posted on 09/02/2013 6:56:45 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

“Unfortunately record keeping of births were not exactly known for their accuracy back in those days for the entire country, and even worse in the south. The other side of the coin is that the Civil War had more than a few child soldiers, especially on the South’s side. So it is really unclear if he was a fake or not.”

Again - he claimed he and his family moved to Texas in 1870. This is corroborated by the census which shows someone of his name with the same family that he had moved from his county in Mississippi to Texas.

However - that fella was born in 1854, and would just have been 10 at appottomattox. He claimed that he slaughtered cattle to help feed the troops. Would you be doing that at 10? All the information that we do have seems to point to him being just 105 or so when he passed on in 1959.


40 posted on 09/02/2013 7:06:13 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Stell Dir vor: Der Praesident sagt, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin.)
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