Claybank

From the time when Jordan, a half-naked urchin of six, tremblingly pronounced his name before the principal's desk in the summer free Claybank school to the memorable occasion of his registration as an Afro-American voter, the announcement had never failed to evoke a smile, accompanied many times by good-humored pleasantry.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

A month passed, and Ezra was beginning to give up all hope of ever having an answer to his letter, when one day it came, a dainty envelope with the Claybank postmark.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

The Reverend Jordan White, of Cold Spring Baptist Church, was so utterly destitute of color in his midnight blackness of hue as to be considered the most thoroughly "colored" person on Claybank plantation, Arkansas.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Is de salvation train done stallded right in front o 'Claybank chu'ch, an' we can't raise wheels ter sen 'it on?

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Claybank, had "served a term" in the Warm Springs asylum, and the issue must be boldly met -- that evasion and denial were but forms of prostration beneath the iron wheels of Truth!

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

The hurts I got were some time healing, and in the interval every prominent member of my party who came to Claybank to speak to the people regarded it as a simple duty to call first at my house, make a tender inquiry as to the progress of my recovery and leave a challenge.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

While I was in Kansas I purchased a weekly newspaper -- the _Claybank

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

Then Mr. Broskin came down to Claybank -- to thank me!

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

"Claybank is a good hund'ed miles from here 'n' I couldn't leave the farm now, noways; besides, the day I start a-makin 'trips from home, talk'll start, an' I'll be watched close-ter'n what I'm watched now -- ef that's possible.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886