Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

[BettyO]

I, too have heard of the "bloody planks" being used to chase the kids. Wonder whatever happened to those planks - and wonder if they were left in the attic when the Garrett family sold the place. I think it was sold sometime during the First Great Depression?

A wonderful old article, Linda.....


Found this info regarding Pvt. William Bernard Lightfoot -

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...=15018349&

His father was John B. Lightfoot - and they owned Riverview Plantation in Port Royal -

Here is his tombstone in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond, VA

       

Here is the plantation where he was born:

   

   

No photograph of him, yet....