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From: Beryl <>
Subject: Genealogy and History-my two cents
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:40:54 -0400

In response to recent thoughts on history and research in the Jackson
Purchase, I had to add my own thoughts. My mother was born and raised in
Tennessee and my father was born and raised in New England. I spent half of
my growing years with my grandparents in Mississippi and the other half in
Rhode Island. I remember learning history with a slant towards the south and
the reverse. My fourth grade teacher in Corinth Mississippi seriously told
us that the south had not really been defeated, that it was lie perpetrated
by devious Yankees (of course, she glared at me while explaining this to
us). I also saw the prejudice against my mother, when people heard her
lovely drawl in the north.

Anyway, I love genealogy because, as I learn more of the facts, and
circumstances of these long ago lives, I realize this history can show us
that, in each family, the winds of battles, disunion and loyalties were
complicated, not simple. Many of the members of my families in the Civil War
(Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama) were split. Older brothers, joining the
Confederacy and younger ones attaching themselves to the Union cause.

I agree with David H. Miller. The war did end in 1865, and I believe that
many of our ancestors prayed for it to end even sooner.

-Beryl Reid

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