The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-04

consolidation male by MT. DuBose's pur- chase of several adjoining tracts. Later he purchased a part of the original Bod die estate, four miles distant. He built at Cedar Grove" a commodious resi- dence and entertained his friends and neighbors freely. In his early manhood he opened @ mile race track on his South Carolina land, for the training and running of blooded horses. In this amusement he was joined by MT. James Wright, president of the bank of Cheraw, the purchaser of the famous estates of Governor Hamilton, on the Chattahooche, below Girard fondness for the blooded horse held to him and he raised every year at Cedar Grove several, some of them with statewide celebrity. His fam fly of sons and daughters was large. He employed tutors for the younger ones at home and gave the older the advantage of the foremost schools.
 MT. DuBose, as we have seen, espoused heartily the doctrines of Calhoun, in South Carolina, and offered his sword in defense. He was an early, consistent and enthusiastic supporter of the southern movement of 1860, in Alabama. He was delegate from Marengo to the historic democratic state convention of 1860. He had two sons, both In their teens, matric- lates of the University of Alabama when the Confectionery was formed. He wrote promptly to them that sincerel yas he loathed to sacrifice their education If the country became involved in war he would sanction a change to the army Both fell ''close the flashing of the guns" The plantations included In this narrative es- capped the presence of the invader, but to give an idea of the universality of the 6oT ma aP AT,- n,,T first to last. 27 fine horses and mules to the army, including those his four sons of the cavalry consumed No compensa- tion from the government was awarded for any of the number except the pair of matched coach horses sent to S- I1ttery- Selden's. The engineers called for negro men to build Notifications at Mobile, Demopolis, Selma and even in Mississippi and the call was always answered The government taxed the corn. bacon, etc, In kind. The state drew heavily for corn for indigent soldiers families, and got it.
 In the spring of 1S66 the year follow ing the fall of the Confederacy, while the Freedmans Bureau was most extensively dominant throughout the south, I hap pened to be In New Orleans, and stepping into tailor's shop selected from bolt of blue flannel, not the United States army material. however. for summer plantation riding sack. I wore the gar ment once only and then at breakfast. Another member of the family hinted to me that "blue coat" was now persona grata to my father I never saw the coat thereafter.
 WALTER W. HORTON
 The Horton family of Huntsville owned plantation adjacent to Oakland. This young gentleman, co-heir, built a small hnt ov,d 1it.n1 ha,t time the war opened he married Miss Vaney vanDyke, daughter of a distin- guished citizen of Alabama, and brought his bride to the plantation.
 He raised a cavalry company early in the war of which David M. Curry of Dayton was first lieutenant.
 Before his marriage MT. Horton took rank among the foremost beaux of the community. His two sisters Mrs. Robert Barnwell Rhett and Mrs. Colock, living in Charleston, had him to spend the winters with them in that gay center of society of which these ladies were prominent members
 DIR. HENRY BETHEA.
 In the great war time Col. Tristan B. Bethea, distinguished Aabamian and large planter purchased the Cuba plan tation a part of the Calhoun estate. He never lived there. Immediately upoD his return from the war pr. Henry Bethea, son of the former gentleman, arrived from Montgomery and took up his resi- dence at Cuba as permanent home.
 Dr. Bethea, in the midst of the war, married daughter of Judge Sampel F. Rice. She died a year later. He came as young widower to the Canebrake, when the social character of the country had been lost by the result of war. His home, nevertheless. became a center of hispitality very akin to the times that had been. pr. and Mrs. Bethea had one child, son.