Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — As Old as the State. [ARTICLE]

As Old as the State.

The Alabama House of Representatives has as Its oldest employe “Uncle” Peter Lacey, an antebellum darkey, who has held his place since 1849. He Is as old as the State of Alabama, having been bora in 1819.