From the Mobile,Alabama Newspaper

Monday, August 14, 1961:


"Some native-born Mobilians might choose to hide the fact that they had a parent who fought for the North in the Civil War.

"Not Mrs. May Randlette Beck.

"For if her father hadn't participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay, fallen in love with the city and decided it would be his home after the war, the North would have gained more than a victory. ... Mrs. Beck, whose husband, Dr. J.E. Beck, died 12 years ago, still makes her home in the little Creole cottage on Washington Square where she was born in 1874.

"On either side of the cottage steps are two huge clumps of elephant ears that are older than Mrs. Beck. Her maternal grandmother planted them almost a century ago, and they are an impressive sight."


Not my line, just sharing.