I’ve got some old southern gentry in the family tree here and there, only one you might have heard of was way back though, 18th century and before, but they didn’t die out. King Carter and his second wife Elizabeth Landon, Landon Carter. Understand he had some impact during the land office days of early TN statehood. None of the money filtered down, lol. Only legacy was being well-spoken, well-read and “socially acceptable” as genteel po’ folk, and the names of a few long-dead distant cousins on buildings in Chapel Hill.
“I’ve got some old southern gentry in the family tree”
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My people were all Swedes who thought it was a good time to get the hell outta Yodge.