Family Matters" Head of the Family Joe Matters - 7 Angebote vergleichen

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This is the story of one of the Matters Family. Joe was the father and this is his story about what happened to him after all of the children had grown up and left home. He became partners with a black man by the name of Toady who had been a slave. There were eight of the Matters children either full kin or just adopted. This is one of the stories of how they survived the War Between the States and their movement to the west in search of a new and better life. In the West, people had come to understand, it was a place where you started over. When you came west, you wiped the slate and whatever you were to begin with could be wiped clean so they could start a fresh new life. If you had courage, did your job, and were a man of your word nobody cared whatever you might have been it was a good thin. There should always be a place for people to begin again. Joe Matters Father of the Clan. He was stooped over from a tree falling on his back and not more that 5 foot 6 inches when he had been able to stand up straight. Martha Matters- The mother 5 feet tall and 150 pounds.1. Don't Care (D.C.) Matters-5 feet 8 inches skin an bones when released from Adersonville prison camp.2.What for and Who Cares twins.3. Doesn't Really (D.R.) Matters- 6 Feet in stocking feet and weight is about 200 pounds.3. Due Tell (D.T.)- six foot 4 inches in sock feet and weights in at 250 pounds.5. About Time (A.T.) Matters- The only girl in the family and is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weight is about one hundred pounds soaking wet.6. Not Again (N.A) Matters-5 foot 8 inches and weight is about one hundred and ninety pounds.7. No More (NM) 5 foot 10 inches 190 pounds.8. Last One (L.O.)- 5 foot tall and about 120 pounds. John, Edward, and Tillman- Boys that died before their first birthday. Joe and Martha were told by a granny women which had been the mid wife for the births that they were bad names and if the male of the family named them such that the children would not live. Not Again (N.A) Matters- 5foot.

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Language: English. Brand new Book. Joe Matters was a old man to some folks at the age of 30 years when he married Martha. Him and Martha had a family y of nine children and farmed over 100 acres of land. The children had all grown and moved to other places by the time the War of Northern Aggression came to an end. It was just him and Martha at home when Martha died from the Pneumonia. The Carpet Baggers and the Sheriff came and stripped the land and farm of every bit of live stock, feed, furniture, milk cows, mules, horses and any thing else. Then some one came and buried the house, barn. Martha had been dead for several months. Joe had been able to get only minor things such as the letters Martha had saved from the children writing them and very little else.Joe decided there was nothing left for him at the farm and wanted to see all of his children before he died. With Martha (his wife of thirty years) had died and the carpet baggers and the banker came an took his One Hundred Sixty acres for the paltry sum he owed the bank of four hundred dollars.So he visited the ones close to him and wanted to see Atty and her new child. He carried the small haversack when he left the farm and proceed west.After stopping at his oldest sons plantation and finding the black workers were payed the same as the white workers. His son bought a warehouse full of purchases of the Union Army and since there were no more war had been bought by WF mattes. They put together four wagons and mad a tan-tom of four wagons hooked together to haul the merchandise to the west for sale to make a huge profit.

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Joe Matters was a old man to some folks at the age of 30 years when he married Martha. Him and Martha had a family y of nine children and farmed over 100 acres of land. The children had all grown and moved to other places by the time the War of Northern Aggression came to an end. It was just him and Martha at home when Martha died from the Pneumonia. The Carpet Baggers and the Sheriff came and stripped the land and farm of every bit of live stock, feed, furniture, milk cows, mules, horses and any thing else. Then some one came and buried the house, barn. Martha had been dead for several months. Joe had been able to get only minor things such as the letters Martha had saved from the children writing them and very little else.Joe decided there was nothing left for him at the farm and wanted to see all of his children before he died. With Martha (his wife of thirty years) had died and the carpet baggers and the banker came an took his One Hundred Sixty acres for the paltry sum he owed the bank of four hundred dollars.So he visited the ones close to him and wanted to see Atty and her new child. He carried the small haversack when he left the farm and proceed west.After stopping at his oldest sons plantation and finding the black workers were payed the same as the white workers. His son bought a warehouse full of purchases of the Union Army and since there were no more war had been bought by WF mattes. They put together four wagons and mad a tan-tom of four wagons hooked together to haul the merchandise to the west for sale to make a huge profit.

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