[AGL] Jackson article - Fontaine's g-g-grandma

[Fontaine Maverick]

Plenty of memoirs, diairies - this one was about my great grandparent's 
idyllic life in the thirties in San Antonio on the family manse - memoirs of 
"Sunshine Ranch", where I grew up and where my mom still lives. Included is 
a memoir of my great grandmother's mother, who was a Maury.

There is another memoir of the other GGG, Mary Maverick, who described San 
Antonio in the 1830's to 1860's. I think the writing of journals was pretty 
common - they dint have cable, or the internet.

Next time you are in Austin, I'll show you what there is.

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Fontaine,
I am curious about the Mavericks, if that is which GG Grand you are 
referring to.  Are there personal memoirs published about the family? Or is 
there a history book source with much information.
Connie


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From: Fontaine Maverick <fmaverick at austin.rr.com>
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After the funeral, I went by Oats and picked that one up. I think Doug Brown
told me that it was the only one available in any quantity. It certainly is
written from the viewpoint of Southern Racists, but I did not perceive it as
sympathetic.
I got hold of an excerpt of my great great grandmothers journal a couple of
years ago talking about owning slaves; her viewpoint was of the "we were
good to our nigras" persuasion. Told some anecdotes that made the hair on
the back of my neck stand up; it creeped me out, but I was glad to be able
to see for myself  what the mindset of a southern racist was like.

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> Jon and Kathy,

>

> Thanks for forwarding the article on Jaxon. I for 1 am going to make a

> more

> serious effort to track down Jaxon's various books, especially the 1 about

> post-Civil War Reconstruction so i can see what the fuss was about. The

> notion of writing from the viewpoint and in sympathy with racist

> southerners

> is an odd 1; short of actually reading the book it seems impossible to

> imagine it.

>

> Neither the UT library nor the Austin public library have any of these

> books

> (i looked for them after the memorial last summer) but they should be

> available by Interlibrary Loan.

>

> Mike

>

>




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