My grandfather's family on my mother's side were farmers in Greensboro, from the 1830's. They began to grow cotton after the civil war. When the boll weavil struck in the twenties the family lost the land. According to my father, Emmet(my grandfather) sd that after the boll weavil destroyed the cotton crop, there was simply "no money". My grandfather eventually bought it back, in the 1950's, after he returned from service in the war. Pine trees are growing there now- I have been recently to visit- the land is hard- clay, very rocky.
Tom,
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather's family on my mother's side were farmers in
Greensboro, from the 1830's. They began to grow cotton after the civil
war. When the boll weavil struck in the twenties the family lost the
land. According to my father, Emmet(my grandfather) sd that after the boll
weavil destroyed the cotton crop, there was simply "no money". My
grandfather eventually bought it back, in the 1950's, after he
returned from service in the war. Pine trees are growing there now- I
have been recently to visit- the land is hard- clay, very rocky.
Best,
Bowie
Bowie,
ReplyDeleteGrateful for your testimony, record and reminder of the heritage of all those decades of precarious survival on this unforgiving land.