"Family Matters" Head of the Family Joe Matters

By Will Welton

Joe Matters was a old man to some folks at the age of 30 years when he married Martha. Him and Martha had a family y of nine children and farmed over 100 acres of land. The children had all grown and moved to other places by the time the War of Northern Aggression came to an end. It was just him and Martha at home when Martha died from the Pneumonia. The Carpet Baggers and the Sheriff came and stripped the land and farm of every bit of live stock, feed, furniture, milk cows, mules, horses and any thing else. Then some one came and buried the house, barn. Martha had been dead for several months. Joe had been able to get only minor things such as the letters Martha had saved from the children writing them and very little else.Joe decided there was nothing left for him at the farm and wanted to see all of his children before he died. With Martha (his wife of thirty years) had died and the carpet baggers and the banker came an took his One Hundred Sixty acres for the paltry sum he owed the bank of four hundred dollars.So he visited the ones close to him and wanted to see Atty and her new child. He carried the small haversack when he left the farm and proceed west.After stopping at his oldest sons plantation and finding the black workers were payed the same as the white workers. His son bought a warehouse full of purchases of the Union Army and since there were no more war had been bought by WF mattes. They put together four wagons and mad a tan-tom of four wagons hooked together to haul the merchandise to the west for sale to make a huge profit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1693598175
• ISBN13: 9781693598173
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"