Martha Sue Hartsfield is born to William J. Hartsfield and Barbara Belle Allen. At the age of 15, she joins her uncle James Henry Allen’s bootlegging operation throughout GA, TN, and AL. (Since she is still alive today, we must add (for legal purposes) that this...
Barbara Belle Allen, sister to Henry Allen, is born in Acworth, GA. to James Harrison Allen and Mildred Proctor. She would later marry William “Bill” J. Hartsfield , part of the family whose name is on the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.
To avoid Prohibition laws, Mary Dowling hired Joseph L. Beam to move her Waterfill & Frazier Distillery operations from KY to Juarez, Mexico. She would continue making bourbon in Juarez until 1964 when Congress passed Resolution 57. Mary named the company, Dowling...
Mary (Murphy) Dowling is born in Kentucky. In the early 1900s she would take over the Waterfill & Frazier Distillery, owned by her husband and brother-in-law. She is a badass, keep reading her story!
