Tag Archives: History of the South

The Southern Hill Country Mentality

Reflections on the people of the American South after the Civil War into the 20th and 21st centuries as they confronted the perils of modernization. The Southern hill country personality type is a reticence towards others, even a reticence toward … Continue reading

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The Largent and Amos Families of the American South

When in 1911 Claude Christopher Largent and Bessie Lura Amos were married, they brought to their union centuries of ancestral history that spanned the American South and Southeast, as well as early modern England and France. They descended from families … Continue reading

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