2011 - 2012 Members
Pegge Abraham
Sylvia and Yamandu Acosta
Alabama Power
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Applin
Mrs. C. M. Archibald
Azalea Garden Club
Capt. and Mrs. Robert Babis
Ann L. Ballenger
Kay Barnett
Mary and Dave Barrows
Jeanette Baxley
BBVA Compass Bank
Mrs. Herbert Beasley
Taylor Belitz
Lisa Bell
Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bickley
Mary Biddy
Janice Biggers
Ann Blondheim
Jeanie and Andy Boyce
Jane Boyette
Mildred and Jim Bradley
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Branning
Bette Jo and Earl Braswell
Robert Breslin
Parker and Beverly Brown
Ruby Burggrabe
Joyce and Ken Bush
Lucy S. Calton
Ken and Jonna Carpenter
Anne Carter
Deborah M. Casey
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney L. Chapman, Sr.
Willette and Tom Chesnutt
Cathy and Kenny Childree
Louise Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Clark
Elaine and Phil Codd
Beth and Scott Cole
Carolyn Cole
Frank W. Comer
Ann Corcoran
Barbara Crapps
Joan P. Creighton
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crow
Emogene W. Cullifer
Cynthia and Michael Davis
Ann Devine
Ellen Dewberry
The Mary Wallace Martin
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Eufaula, Alabama 36027
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Merrill J. Dillon
Cally and Bob Dixon
Robert M. and Mary C. Dixon
Cherry Doyle
Ann and Roy Dunaway
O.B. Earnest, Jr.
Glenda and Paul Emerson
Jimmie Escher
Delia and Jim Estes
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Farmer
Farmers Exchange Bank
Pam Freeman
Jane and Mike French
Tim French
Gardner Animal Hospital
Kathy Garrison
Margaret Garrison
Kathryn Gaskin
Scott and Jenny Gillis
Harry I. Goggins
Elaine and Burke Grace
Mary and Henry Gray
Dr. and Mrs. John Hagood
Alaina Marie Hall
Betty Hall
Sherry and Jack Harrison
Lawrence and Jennifer Hatfield
Richard and Anne Hawks
Judy and Harvey Hepner
Julie and Jack Hill
Joyce Hogue
Anmarie and Terry Honan
Toni and Billy V. Houston
Celeste Houston
Paula and Russell Irby
Jay and Lynnette Jaxon
Ferdie and Don Johnston
Young Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. Corey Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jones
Michelle and Matt Jones
Dr. and Mrs. Elliott Johnston
Sandy Jordan
Carol and Terry Keefe
Gena Faye King
Mrs. Lawson Kirkland, Jr.
Carol and Bill Kleinhoff
Dr. and Mrs. John Langdale, III
Lanier Club
Sarah T. Lawrence
Cynthia and Lamar Lee
Catherine Lehman
Connie Lewis
Dorothy Anne Lockwood
Dr. and Mrs. James Lockwood
Joan Maahs
Betty J. Marshall
Clara Martin
Stella and Paul Matherne
Judi and Jim Mathisen
Ruth Mattox
Mr. and Mrs. Ken McAliley
Judith L. McCormick
Bob and Claudia Methvin
Douglas and Nan Metz
MidSouth Bank
Betty Milldrum
John and Charlotte Mills
Ann and Ben Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mixon
Julie and James Mize
Catherine Mott
Kathy Mottley
Helen and Harry Nelson
Ann and Ed Newton
Joe and Jeanetta Britt Newton
Jane and David Nix
Laura Norton
Melvin and Deborah Oakley
Kay O’Connor
Sandra Ongemach
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Palamara
Brenda Parker
Linda Parker
Shirley and Dale Pass
Peoples South Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Perry
Bev and Bob Peterson
Pierian Club
Mrs. Lucy B. Pomeroy
Zoe M. Powell
Bob and Betsy Powers
Doug and Betsy Purcell
Amy and Shannon Rasberry
Ben Reeves
Reeves Peanut
Betty Richards
Margaret and Bill Richardson
Marilyn and Pat Riley
Martha Roberts
Marie Rodgers
Margaret C. Russell
Grace Sanders
Celia R. Satterwhite
Anne and John Savage
Dot Scarborough
Dr. Pat Schiller
Doreen Shirah
Tim and Jill Shirley
John and Alice Shoemaker
John Shorter
Albert F. Simpson
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Simpson
Sharon Simpson
Margaret Slade
Eugenie Slater
Kenneth and Jeanne Slay
Ann Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Annelle Smith
Van Smith
Pam Snead
Gail Sparks
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Spurlock, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stanley
Donna Stetler and Charlie Swift
William A. and Nina Stokes
Betty Suddath
Symposium Club
Margaret Thomas
Sara Thompson
Trish and Jeff Thorne
Suzann Tibbs
Peter Trodd
Johnny and Carolyn Tweddell
Erma Vandenberg
Diane and Paul Voors
Pat and Gene Watson
Ray Weeks, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Weidenbach
Kay and Mark Whaley
Jeremy and Laurie White
Ken and Janie White
Mr. and Mrs. Allen N. White
Judith and John Whitehouse
Mary F. Williams
Julia Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Wilson
Erin and Richard Wingate
Calvin and Pat Wingo
Sue Winkleblack
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The above list is a combination of 2011-2012 members. Please remember to renew your 2011 membership if you
have not already. Next quarter we will list 2012 members only. Thank you for your continued support!
FRIENDS...
MARY WALLACE MARTIN FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
FEBRUARY 2012
PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS
Our newsletter is a little late this time because we have been working on an arrangement to have in produced
commercially. Instead of producing the newsletter with volunteers (namely Nina Stokes), it will now be produced
by TriState Graphics (Sallie Garrison’s outfit) using our input. I will be the point of contact until I can shuffle the
job off on someone else. Many thanks to Nina and her predecessors.
The 2012 officers of the The Friends of the Library are:
President - Albert Simpson
Vice President - Ed Newton
Secretary - Jane Boyette
Newsletter - Albert Simpson
Membership - Linda Parker
I hope that I say this right. The members of our board are, with a few exceptions, mature. If you know of
anyone who has not yet started drawing Social Security and who might be a good addition to the board, please let
me know.
Ronnie Smith will open the library for tours during the Pilgrimage and the Genealogy Group will sponsor
another of its excellent displays of photographs. Very good!
If you have already renewed your membership, “Thank you.” If not, please do. We need you (and your
money).
Albert F. Simpson, President
Genealogy and History
I may as well confess my sin right away. I could kick myself, and I cannot explain why, but I forgot
to take notes on our cemetery tour, Saturday, November 10th. Albert Simpson talked to us about confederate soldier’s experiences before we left the library for our tour.
We drove up US-82 to Batesville and walked through the Baptist Church cemetery where some of my
wife’s ancestors are buried. She was a Cade and her great-grandfather, John Smith Cade, moved his family
to Eufaula around 1895.
Our next stop, Providence cemetery, is one of the oldest in Barbour County. Several early planters
are buried here, including Joel Hamilton, Levi Wilson, several Foys, and several Grants.
Small square markers, set flush with the grass, caught our attention. These turned out to mark the
spots where ground penetrating radar had found disturbances in the soil. They are strong evidence of an
unmarked grave.
Ground penetrating radar sends a radio signal into the ground and receives the echo that bounces
back. The echo is displayed on a computer screen. When the wavy line pattern changes, the soil has been
disturbed.
From Providence we traveled via Lugo to Spring Hill Methodist Church and its large well kept cemetery. From there we went to Ramah Baptist Church cemetery.
While I have your attention I may as well ask for information about two things that played their part
in Eufaula’s story. Whitlock’s Jewelry Store once used a sign in the shape of a large pocket watch. It is
supposed to have kept time and unless it was electric, you would need a large step ladder to wind it. If you
know anything about it, please let me know.
Eufaula once used a small cannon to announce the arrival and departure of steamboats. I have
asked about it over the years, but have found no answers so far. I promise to take notes on our next tour.
--Van Smith
Eufaula Carnegie Library serving the public for over 100 years. Established in 1904
Gifts and Memorials
Director’s Notes
2011 was a busy year at Eufaula Carnegie Library, and it looks as if 2012 will be just as active. In fact, as last year was coming
to a close we received great news about two new projects.
E-books Within a few weeks, our patrons will have access to e-books for download onto Kindles, Nooks, iPads, and other
electronic readers or listening devices. This will occur as the Carnegie Library becomes the newest member of Camellia Net.
Camellia Net, the “digital library” for patrons of Alabama libraries, is a catalog of materials that patrons of about thirty Alabama
libraries currently may access. As patrons of a Camellia Net member library, you will be able to borrow e-books and audio
books for download onto your electronic reader.
In many ways, an e-book is circulated by a library in a manner similar to that of a print book. Only one patron at a time may
check out an e-book, and renewals are not allowed if another patron is waiting to use the item.
However, our library will offer a custom collection of items exclusively for our own patrons. As members of this program-called the Advantage program--we will have a special database of materials that only Eufaula Carnegie patrons can use. This
means we can purchase additional copies of popular titles and make them available only to our patrons; this should reduce wait
times for patrons wanting popular items.
The Library’s participation in Camellia Net is being funded by a grant from the Alabama Power Foundation. We are extremely
grateful to Alabama Power and to Southeast Division Manager Earl Bellamy for providing us with the funding for this service,
and we look forward to working with our patrons and other community organizations to make the materials on Camellia Net
available to all members of the public.
We have several events planned for the launch of our joining Camellia Net in late February or early March. Watch the Eufaula
Tribune and the library’s e-mail newsletter for more details. (If you don’t subscribe to our e-newsletter, send your e-mail address
to me at [email protected] and I will add you to the mailing list).
Lois Lenski Covey Foundation Grant Shortly before Thanksgiving, the Library received the news that we have received a
Lois Lenski Covey Foundation Grant in the amount of $2,700! The Covey Foundation awards grants to libraries and other institutions to purchase books for children aged pre-school through grade 8. Since the Foundation awards only 25 grants per year,
we were very proud to be selected from among hundreds of applicants for the 2011 grant cycle!
We are currently putting together a list of books to purchase, and the new items should be shortly appearing on the shelves of
the Youth Services Library.
New DVDs The library has recently added more than 200 new DVDs to our collection, and many more movies will be added
in the coming months. This is thanks to a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant in the amount of $9,766. This
is a federal grant, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Service (IMLS) in Washington and distributed through the
Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) in Montgomery. Our grant was awarded for collection development of our DVD collection.
This grant requires a local match of $2,441. I’m pleased to say that the City Council agreed via resolution at their December 19
meeting to provide that match for the library. Please thank the mayor and your council member for their outstanding support of
the library!
The Carnegie Library would like to thank the following individuals for their recent donations:
• The Barbour County Genealogy and Local History Society for their donation in honor of Van Smith. Their donation was used to purchase the book An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
by Edward J. Larson for the collection.
• John and Alice Shoemaker for their generous donation in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Boutwell. Their donation
was used to purchase the book Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh for the collection.
• John and Alice Shoemaker for their generous donation in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Ward. Their donation
was used to purchase the book Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith for the
collection.
• John and Alice Shoemaker for their generous donation in honor of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Ward. Their donation was
used to purchase the book The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry for the collection.
• Marie Rodgers for her generous donation in memory of Tom Rodgers. Her donation was used to purchase the
book Those Rebels, John and Tom by Barbara Kerley for the collection.
• Richard and Anne Hawks for their generous donation to the library. Their donation was used to purchase the
book An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears by Daniel Blake Smith for the collection.
• The Barbour County Genealogy and Local History Society for their donation in honor of Col. Albert Simpson.
Their donation was used to purchase the books The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War and
Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847 to the collection.
• The Barbour County Genealogy and Local History Society for their donation in honor of Mike Bunn. Their donation will be used to purchase the upcoming book Shiloh, 1862 by Winston Groom for the collection.
• Lyle and Travis M. Wilson for their generous donation in memory of Patricia L. Toner. Their donation was used
to purchase the book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie for the collection.
• The Pierian Club for their generous donation to the library. Their donation was used to purchase the following
books for the collection:
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African-American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates
Camp Nine: A Novel by Vivienne Schiffer
Homemade: The Heart and Science of Handcrafts by Carol Endler Sterbenz
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
• The Symposium Club for their generous donation in memory of Esther Pruett. Their donation will be used to
purchase a book for the library’s collection.
• Mrs. Glenda Esposito for the generous donation in honor of her sister, Mrs. Betty Richards.
Ronnie Smith
Director
Pilgrimage
2012 Friends of Eufaula Carnegie Library Membership
JOIN US by completing this form and returning it with your dues to the front desk at the library, or
you may mail it to Linda Parker, 114 Stoneridge Road, Eufaula, AL 36027.
Please print…
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Friends...
The Library will take part in this year’s Eufaula Pilgrimage,
the weekend of March 30-April 1. We will host free
tours of the library on Friday, March 30, at 10:00 a.m.
and 2:00 p.m., and on Saturday, March 31, at 10:00
a.m., for tourists and local residents. We will also offer
refreshments to visitors as they enjoy the annual photo
exhibit in our auditorium. Our building’s appearance
has been greatly improved in recent years, and we look
forward to showing off the library to our out-of-town
guests.
If you haven’t visited the library recently, join us for the
Pilgrimage this year!
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2012 FOL BOARD MEMBERS
Jeanette Baxley
Jane Boyette
Cathy Childree
Patsy Clark
Ed Newton
Linda Parker
Col. Albert Simpson
Ronnie Smith
Nina Stokes
Peter Trodd
Erma Vandenberg
Peggy Weidenbach
Erin Wingate
Friends...