Piney Woods

Fred Allsworth was born in 1937 in Purvis, Mississippi. His father was a Methodist minister, and the family followed him as his calling took to jobs all over south Mississippi. Allsworth went to college at the University of Southern Mississippi, and became a teacher, arriving in Heidelberg as assistant football coach and math instructor in […]

Dewey Alexander was born in Lawrence County in 1924 into a family of farmers. He worked initially running a dragline in quite a few locations, with interruptions for service in the army during World War II and the Korean War. He wanted to stay home around Foxworth after that and took on work as a