Settler Uriah Cole’s family built a house in 1847 and cleared land for a farm in Lawrence County. After completing his chores, young Cole hunted for sport, “I amused myself by hunting, and never was out of sight of deer. I have seen 500 wild turkeys in a drove and killed them till I was no longer interested.” Cole became a well-known bear hunter in the area, and people came from as far as Indiana to hunt with him after the Civil War.[1]
[1] Stockard, The History of Lawrence, 54.
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