Subject:  MSR Adventures of 2 Alabama Boys
Author:  HH.J. Crumpton, W.B. Crumpton
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Date:  3/18/2003

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THE ADVENTURES OF TWO ALABAMA BOYS was prepared
some years ago with the view of putting it in book form; but "The
Boys" have been so very busy the publication has been delayed.

SECTION ONE contains the adventures of Dr. H. J. Crumpton, a
native of Wilcox county, but since '49 a citizen of California, now
residing on a beautiful spot in Piedmont, a suburb of the city of
Oakland.

These incidents which he relates, his baby brother, the writer of
these lines, heard when he was a scrap of a boy. They made a
profound impression on his youthful mind, and he has ever
cherished the hope that some day he might see them in print. They
were prepared at my earnest solicitation. I feel sure it was no easy
task to dig up from memory almost forgotten incidents and put
them in shape for the reader. At this writing, though he is
advanced in years, past eighty-four, the good wife writes: "He is
smart and active as ever - walks fifteen miles and it doesn't feaze 
him."

One of the most noted buildings in San Francisco is that of the
Society of California Pioneers, of which Society he is an honored
member and a Vice-President. His opinion of politics one can
discover by a letter to the writer. He says: "I am forced to the
conclusion, after serving in the Legislature of my adopted State
several terms and in a local municipality, that politics is a filthy
pool." An opinion shared by a good many others. Some are said to
be born politicians; but I am sure none were born in the Crumpton
family. Every one of the name I have ever known, felt great
interest in all public questions and had opinions about them, but
office seeking has not been to their liking.

A family trait is, an undying love for the old haunts. This caused
the old Forty Niner, when he possessed the means to do so, to
purchase the old farm of his father, fulfilling in part, no doubt, a
dream of his youthful days.

Though in the land of the enemy he was loyal to the South during
the war between the States, proving his faith by his works when he
invested much of his means in Confederate Bonds. The
Confederacy failing, of course this was a clear loss to him. Just at
the breaking out of the Civil War, he returned to California to look
after his interests there and to see what had become of me. If the
reader will turn to my letters which follow, he will get the
connection.