1/40 CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY .-- XIII. As I have said, that vast plot of Tennessee land[6] was held by my father twenty years--intact. When he died in 1847, we began to manage it ourselves. Forty years afterward, we had managed it all away except 10,000 acres, and gotten nothing to remember the sales by. About 1887--possibly it was earlier--the 10,000 went. |