This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Puryear Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.monroe/2883.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Evergreen Courant, Sept 1938 available on microfilm at the Evergreen-Conecuh County Public Library, Lucy C. Warren Heritage Section, 119 Cemetery Avenue, Evergreen, AL In an early newspaper account of the "Early Recollections of Burnt Corn, Monroe County, Ala." written by John Cunningham, Sr. there is an excerpt entitled 'Puryearville' and it reads in part:"This little hamlet, located a few miles west of Burnt Corn was named for a slave dealer who came South from VA and settled there. His name was Dick Puryear and he had two sons, "Little" Dick as he was called and John Puryear. They were all dealers in slaves, and brought quite a number to Burnt Corn and sold them to large planters. John PUryear, the only one living after the Civil War, was a victim of the Yankee raid that passed through Burnt Corn. They had been informed that he sold negroes and supposed he had quite a lot of money. He refused to tell them where his money was and they tied a rope around his neck and pulled him up a limb of a tree, but he still refused to tell them. He had given his money to a lady friend;: Mrs. Mary Moseley for safe keeping. Mrs. Mosely was the widow of ! Asa Moseley, killed in battle during the Civil War."