>All right, I checked with my mom, and here's the story: Lewis Walker Quarterm
>an, my great-grandfather, would have been about fifteen during the occupation
>of Liberty County in 1865. He was just the right age to smart off to an intox
>icated occupying soldier and think he could get away with it. Well, he almost
> didn't, and our family branch almost stopped there. The family home was in W
>althourville, and according to Mom, it would have been built by the third Thom
>as Quarterman, son of Thomas Q. Jr. and Renchie Norman.
>
>Anyhow, that bullet stayed in the house until it burned down in about 1902 or
>-03, when my grandmother, Dandy, was 5.
>
>Then a "new" house was built. Mickie Leonard, on the Quarterman family discus
>sion list, talked about visiting Aunt Sadie, my grandmother's sister, who live
>d in the "new house" for many years. She described the dog trot you used to g
>et to the kitchen. I also visited Aunt Sadie in that house with my grandmothe
>r and mother once when I was very young.
I think all the people you named are in this chart:
http://www.quarterman.org/chart/ethel/
Here we have a family story involving characters going back six generations.
>My, the history we can share when we pool what we know!!
Indeed.
>-Connie
John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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