THE "NIGGER DOGS"

During the Civil War Grandpa Pierson was too old or in too bad health to serve in the War. He was overseer for the plantation of a man named Weaver Moore. When the War was over and the Negroes freed, Moore, didn’t have any more use for his ‘nigger dogs" and gave them to Mr. Pierson to bring to this county. There were a dozen or fifteen of them, bloodhounds. They were later used to chase Indians. In fact, "Uncle Johnnie" or Judge Pierson used them to track down the Indians who killed Anne Whitney, but they became footsore and couldn’t go any further. (See Paige Massingill Story.)

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