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Back to the main Newsletter page Newsletter issue #4, pg 3, July 1990
Lum and Jug Allred by: Dewel C. Lott (Lum & Jug, William, Andrew Jr., Andrew, Thomas Jr., Thomas) Lum: 1878-1944 Jug: 1866 - ? There are a couple of things about Uncle Lum and Jug that might be interesting. Uncle Lum's name was Columbus Tosh, but he was called by all us nephews and nieces as Uncle Lum and others called him "Hick". His mother died when he was born and he did not have a name in the 1880 census. He told me one time that he named himself and that the family called him "Hick" until he got old enough to know he should have a name. He said that he lived by a man named Lummie Tosh and he just gave himself that name. I am sure it was Columbus Tosh and not just Lummie as he told it to me. I seems that Alcoholism runs in the family. Uncle Lum and Uncle Jug also were known to freely to use it. In fact my dad said that he guessed that was why he was called "Jug". But about 1892 Uncle Jug got in jail in Cullman and as the story went that I heard as a child was that he was a small person and his wife was also. She visited him in jail with the baby. The jailer left them alone and they changed clothes. This wife wore a big bonnet and he put in and her dress on and carried the baby and walked out of jail. He left and was not heard of again. I used to question my dad about this and he would say he was probably drunk was the reason he was in jail. Then in the 1970's when I began to do research he still did not seem to know much more. I found the criminal record book in the Court House of Cullman and this is the story that I found. Uncle Jug was visiting a Mr. and Mrs. King near Holly Pond where he lived. They lived in a one room house with only one bed. They got to drinking and finally went to bed with Mr. and Mrs. King in the bed and Uncle Jug on the floor on a pallet. Sometime during the night Mr. King woke up and his wife was on the pallet with Uncle Jug. When she got caught she yelled that Uncle Jug was raping her. So Mr. King swore out a warrant for Uncle Jug and he was put in jail. I told this to dad and he said it was something like that and that Uncle Jug did not leave when he left jail but put the baby in his father's (William Allred) wagon and then went to Crane Hill where William had moved. He stayed in the Bluffs for about 6 months, then they loaded him in a wagon of cotton and carried him to Cullman (22 miles) and rove him to the depot. He got on a train and left and was never heard from again. |
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