A Pioneer Southern Family Life
By: by Ronald E. Wade.
Publisher: Texian Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Wade family.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Southern States.
First sentence: The life of a pioneer family in the deep South in the 1800's contained many exciting experiences and some that were not so exciting.  Living in a tiny log cabing with none of the luxuries we now have in the twentieth century they lived on home-grown vegetables and cooked in an iron skillet and a few iron pots placed in the corner of the hearth of the clay fireplace.
Description: History of numerous families from the Southern States primarily during the Civil War and immediately following and their lives as passed down through family story telling to the grandfathers and relatives of the author by Civil War Confederate veterans
Notes: Written by the author at age 17 from family stories he put together starting at age 13.  Based on the lives of his ancestors, the families of Joseph Berry Wade and his wife Sarah Odell Wade originally of Lumpkin County, Georgia and their son Whitfield Anthony Wade and his wives Miriam Elizabeth Knight Wade and Addie E. Knight Wade.  Also James Langford  born 1770 in Johnston Co., North Carolina and his children William, James W., Joseph A., Lewis, Abner F., Benjamin Dr. Septimus Washington Langford, Francis Franklin (Frank) and Young Marion Langford. Most of the Langford stories come from Young Marion Langford and his wife Elizabeth Nutt Langford.  Also the family of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Williams born 1819 in Talapoosa County, Alabama, the son of Butler Williams.  Joseph DeKalb Mathis was born July 11, 1839 in Hardeman County, Tn. and the book follows his families life as well as inter-related families of all of these.
Table of contents: label: Dedication
pagenum: iii; label: Preface
pagenum: v; label: Table of Contents
pagenum: vi; label: List of Illustrations
pagenum: vii; label: 1
pagenum: 1
title: A Pioneer Southern Family's Life; label: 2
pagenum: 2
title: Life in "Wild and Woolly" Auraria, Georgia; label: 3
pagenum: 6
title: Children Seek Gold; label: 4
pagenum: 8
title: California Gold Ruth - From Georgia; label: 5
pagenum: 10
title: Education; label: 6
pagenum: 11
title: Slavery - An Issue; label: 7
pagenum: 12
title: Prelude to War; label: 8
pagenum: 13
title: A Family Divided; label: 9
pagenum: 14
title: Southerners at War; label: 10
pagenum: 18
title: Wagon Train to Jefferson; label: 11
pagenum: 19
title: Settling in Texas; label: 12
pagenum: 22
title: Life in East Texas; label: 13
pagenum: 24
title: Young Marion Langford - Confederate Veteran; label: 14
pagenum: 30
title: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Williams - Pioneer Doctor; title: They Still Live - Poem; label: 15
pagenum: 34
title: Joseph DeKalb Mathis - Pioneer Minister's Family; label: 16
pagenum: 41
title: Thomas Jefferson Knight Civil War Letter; title: Photographs
pagenum: 43