This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zorn, Appling Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.henry/1181.1185.1192.1193.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jude Appling was indeed a Republican and Judge of Probate during Reconstruction. There were few white Republicans in all of Henry County. It was mostly conprised of the freedom of the county, the newly freed Africn slaves. Another noted Republican was Confederate Capt. Dennis Harrison Zorn of Zornville on the Old River Road about six miles northeast of Haleburg. (A historic marker was dedicated there on November 19, 2006.) Capt. Zorn's leanings to the Republicans could be that he wanted a post office and a federally approved whiskey distillery, both of which he got under Republican rule in the South and a Rebublican president in the White House. His obit in the COLUMBIA BREEZE, June 1899, states that though he was a Republican, "he voted with the dominant party on local issues."