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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Rachel L. Swarns / The Bulletin
June 17, 2012
REX, Ga. — Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the cemetery where her people were buried. There lay the pioneers who once populated Georgia’s rugged frontier, where striving white men planted corn and cotton, fought for the Confederacy and owned slaves.
The settlers....