Letter to the Editor

Immicration My Grandmother was a wealth of stories. Probably many reading this would agree that their Grandmothers told good stories. Mine was born in 1884, and Sunday would have been her 140th birthday. Her mother, my great-grandmother Smith, often told her stories about the Civil War. When she told them to me, it was as if I were there with my great-grandmother. Stories of the Confederate guerrillas. Some were about John Hunt Morgan, who raided all the farms in the New Hope Valley, located just below Bardstown. He took everything, stole horses, salt, sugar, flour, even butchering livestock- everything. My grandmother said that every time her mother spoke of the raids by Morgan she spit on the ground. He left them all to starve. No hero. She also told me about the Indian reservation located outside of New Heaven and about the Indians who lived there before they were removed to Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears.

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