O'Guynn's grave
Among the men who took on the dangerous job of rolling logs down the area rivers to the various saw mills was Coleman O'Guynn (or Coley O'Gwynn as Rev. Brooks spelled it in last week's article). As mentioned in last week's article, O'Guynn was among the best at his trade and this unique occupation spread out over a short period of just 20 years as the area forests were depleted of their precious supply of virgin long leaf pines.
Coleman was born on March 1, 1845 at Mt. Pleasant, Alabama in Monroe County. Mt. Pleasant approximates today to the Eliska/Eureka Landing area. Monroe County was yo...
