I wasn’t born there, but in an Army hospital, but my father was, and we go back seven generations there, too. Direct descendents of a Revolutionary War veteran who settled there sometime before 1809 when the town was founded.
Until my grandfather’s generation, all dirt farmers, by the way, who sometimes had to depend on those aquirrels for meat on the table. :-)
My family mostly farmers with few slaves usually just a family of them
East Mississippi
My wife fam were gentry
10,000 acre cotton plantation
Politically strong
Barksdale killed at Gettysburg
Course lost it all