Amanda's father was a wealthy planter in southwestern Georgia. When, at age 80, she was reduced to poverty (her husband having died more than 20 years before), she was able to gather eyewitness testimony from old GA friends who had served in her husband's cavalry unit (1862-65) in order to collect his Confederate pension for her final few years.
She moved to San Antonio in 1901 or 1902, supposedly because it was healthier than the Mississippi Valley. Her youngest child, Walton, suffered from tuberculosis, so his mother Amanda left Kentucky and moved with him and his older sister, Evie Lee, to San Antonio. Walton's actual death certificate (from 1916), which lists "tuberculosis" as the cause of death, confirms the truth of this family legend. Amanda's own death certificate (in 1928) attributes her demise to the recurrence of an old case of tuberculosis contracted long before, in Kentucky.
She moved to San Antonio in 1901 or 1902, supposedly because it was healthier than the Mississippi Valley. Her youngest child, Walton, suffered from tuberculosis, so his mother Amanda left Kentucky and moved with him and his older sister, Evie Lee, to San Antonio. Walton's actual death certificate (from 1916), which lists "tuberculosis" as the cause of death, confirms the truth of this family legend. Amanda's own death certificate (in 1928) attributes her demise to the recurrence of an old case of tuberculosis contracted long before, in Kentucky.
Amanda's father was a wealthy planter in southwestern Georgia. When, at age 80, she was reduced to poverty (her husband having died more than 20 years before), she was able to gather eyewitness testimony from old GA friends who had served in her husband's cavalry unit (1862-65) in order to collect his Confederate pension for her final few years.
She moved to San Antonio in 1901 or 1902, supposedly because it was healthier than the Mississippi Valley. Her youngest child, Walton, suffered from tuberculosis, so his mother Amanda left Kentucky and moved with him and his older sister, Evie Lee, to San Antonio. Walton's actual death certificate (from 1916), which lists "tuberculosis" as the cause of death, confirms the truth of this family legend. Amanda's own death certificate (in 1928) attributes her demise to the recurrence of an old case of tuberculosis contracted long before, in Kentucky.
She moved to San Antonio in 1901 or 1902, supposedly because it was healthier than the Mississippi Valley. Her youngest child, Walton, suffered from tuberculosis, so his mother Amanda left Kentucky and moved with him and his older sister, Evie Lee, to San Antonio. Walton's actual death certificate (from 1916), which lists "tuberculosis" as the cause of death, confirms the truth of this family legend. Amanda's own death certificate (in 1928) attributes her demise to the recurrence of an old case of tuberculosis contracted long before, in Kentucky.
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