Show son of an overseer but it was after tho the war that tho the overseer had his grand opportunity with cotton at fabulous prices and tree free labor in abundance he made uso use of the knoal knowledge edge of farming that his former employer was so sadly deficient in and while the latter went into bankruptcy and was turned into the road he be prospered amazingly until today many of the wealthiest wealthie A families in tho the south bouth are those founded by ex over seers in the and early class barriers being gradually broken down tho sons and daughters of overseers are now recognized in the best society in the south the calling of their fathers being charitably forgotten oUen out of 0 consideration for their fathers success the southern overseer class must have credit for at least one great soldier it would not be charitable to call his bis name for the south respects him a as one of the greatest of her cavalry leaders but whatever talents he possessed he inherited from his father who was the overseer for the writers grandfather in bedford county in old kentucky in the days before the war new york post |