JULY 20 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): Joel P. Muzzey lived at 260 Church Street. He had two daughters. Abbie was a music teacher, choir leader and organist at the Congregational Church. Maria, the more adventurous sister in the photo, in 1871-1874 taught recently freed slaves at the Union Academy in Columbus, Miss. It had 400 students and was directed by Superintendent J. N. Bishop and taught by 6 ladies. On March 12, 1871 the following letter was published in the Romeo Observer: “I write hastily and only a few words, to tell you that the Ku Klux have not got me…They past by our house last week, a little before daybreak without molesting us. We have been repeatedly assured that if they do come here they will not harm the ladies, unless we attempt to defend Mr. Bishop. He himself has no fear of them, because he thinks it is perfectly understood that if they kill him the blacks will burn the city.” R. Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff