One cold might when it was raining, Grandma Meador said her younger brother William came to her cabin for a visit. She had not seen him in some time. In the meantime, Yankee soldiers surrounded the cabin and hollered out, “Throw out your gun and come on out, Reb.” The boy threw out his gun and started out, but the Yanks started firing. Grandma ran out in the rain and gathered up his muddy listless head in her arms. When she did, the poor lad’s bloody mass of brains fell out into her hands. For the rest of her life, she never had any use for Abe Lincoln or Northern people.
One cold might when it was raining, Grandma Meador said her younger brother William came to her cabin for a visit. She had not seen him in some time. In the meantime, Yankee soldiers surrounded the cabin and hollered out, “Throw out your gun and come on out, Reb.” The boy threw out his gun and started out, but the Yanks started firing. Grandma ran out in the rain and gathered up his muddy listless head in her arms. When she did, the poor lad’s bloody mass of brains fell out into her hands. For the rest of her life, she never had any use for Abe Lincoln or Northern people.
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John Nathaniel Popejoy
1835–1909
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Alfred Abel "Ab" Popejoy
1837–1865
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Nathaniel Tarrence "N T" Popejoy
1840–1910
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Edward Thomas Popejoy
1843–1926
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Amanda Melvina "Mandy" Popejoy Meador
1845–1927
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Simeon "Simon" Popejoy
1847–1935
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Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Popejoy
1851–1939
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Tillman Armstrong "David" Popejoy
1854–1936
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Mary B. Popejoy Covington
1855–1916
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Samuel James Popejoy
1858–1912
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