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"its all a dream" is a recent 30x40 inch oil painting i did on stretched canvas. that tree no longer exists as it fell from a lightning strike a year ago. dont fret because this is all a dream anyway

I like the illustration.

When their Nashville Pike home burned, the Figuers family purchased Boxmere—still standing today at 903 W. Main Street in Franklin.

Home of young Hardin Figuers, he climbed a tree in the front yard to watch the Battle of Franklin. During the battle, Boxmere sat just 100 yards inside the Federal breastworks and was taken over as headquarters by Union General William Grose.

For safety, Mrs. Figuers took her daughters down the hill, while her sons remained in the basement with an enslaved servant. When the fighting paused, the boys would climb trees to witness the battle. Sadly, the giant white oak tree that survived so many years had to be removed this year.

Hardin later wrote:

“I spent the entire afternoon… seeing all that could be seen. When the first assault was made, bullets were flying everywhere, and I retreated to the cellar.”

A shell from the Bostick home struck the house above them.

After the battle, Boxmere became a Confederate hospital, filling with wounded soldiers. The boys gathered bedding and built fires, urging their mother to return and care for the injured. She would go on to lead relief efforts, including nearby St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Hardin later described the aftermath:

“The first dead person I found was a little Yankee boy, about my own age… The sight of this dead boy somehow impressed me more than the thousands of dead I was soon to look upon.”

Included in the Hincheyville Historic District, Boxmere was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. A small cabin for the enslaved from the property is preserved today at the Carter House."

Pedigree Collapse Our cousin Thomas first marriage

Thomas second marriage

Our cousin, Thomas Hardeman, had neighbors named Richard and Rebecca Bolstick. Richard was his distant cousin; like us, they were descendants of the Perkins family. He married a daughter of Newton Cannon, the governor of Tennessee, who succeeded your cousin, President James K. Polk. Our uncle, John Hardeman, ran against Cannon in an earlier political race and lost. Cannon himself was married to another distant Perkins cousin of ours

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𝑀𝑢𝑧𝑧𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑘𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑏 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑤-𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑠.

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Here's a view down Main st in Downtown Rosenberg in 1913. Main st is now 3rd st. 1913 was the year of a great flood.

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I miss Texas.

Visited there once.

That is to say,

I haven't gone there at all.

It never will be the same as before.

I would not want it to be before.

It would be a mistake,

Chasing generational trauma.

I want to go back,

but I don't want to go back.

She wouldn't be there.