Benefit of Clergy Does Not Mean What You Think it Does by Claudia Johnson Looking back through the Giles County court records, one comes across many cases where a person was convicted of a felony but pled “benefit of clergy” and basically go free. In the early days of...
Antebellum Christmas in Giles County by Claudia Johnson Christmas in antebellum Giles County would hardly be recognizable to those accustomed to the present-day commercial Christmas which begins with the after Thanksgiving Day sales and ends with a New Year’s Day...
A Fictional Account of Christmas 1868 Based on Documented Historical Facts Julia Ann Joines Carvell was a real Giles Countian and the great-great-great grandmother of Claudia Johnson, who hosts this page. Although no journal exists attributed to Julia Ann, everything...
Christmas 1898 by Claudia Johnson If the Pulaski Citizen from a century ago were the only evidence, the existence of Christmas would be hard to prove. Thick winter issues from 1896-98, comprised of narrow columns of tight, tiny text and wordy, elaborate advertisements...
