| "Save me a banner to place upon the hills of West Augusta and I will rally around me men who will lift my bleeding country
from the dust and make her free." - George Washington
Norma Knotts Shaffer's Calhoun History and Genealogy Page has returned to the net.
While many more items will be added to the page, you can already find several years of Calhoun County High School
yearbooks. Also returning is a feature originally on The Herald dedicated to Calhoun soldiers from the Civil War through
Vietnam, which includes dozens of pictures.
Also the Photo of the Day feature on the Hur Herald is running again, hundreds of pictures of life in earlier days.
Norma, Associate Editor of The Herald, has spent the past several years collecting and assembling Calhoun County history,
stories and photos. It has been a labor of love, dedicated to preserving the past for the future.
She said "For approximately 200 years, nearly all my ancestors have inhabited the steep hills and narrow valleys of the
Appalachian foothills. They were among the hearty pioneers who were already living on the frontier prior to the American
Revolution."
"They were the men of whom George Washington spoke during the dark hours of our fledgling nation's struggle for freedom.
The truth in Washington's statement is borne out by the fact that, indeed, these men did rally to the cause of freedom and
several served our country in the Revolution, mostly as scouts and Indian spies."
It is to these patriots Norma's page is dedicated.
"Therefore, it is with a tremendous sense of pride and gratitude that I present the genealogy of my family as well as Calhoun
County items of general interest," she said.
Norma Knotts Shaffer's Calhoun History and Genealogy
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