Foundation Stone (Library Alabama Classics)

1247 Pages·1986·3.78 MB·English

by  Lee Warren

Foundation Stone Library of Alabama
title:
Classics
author: Warren, Lella.
publisher: University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin: 0817302883
print isbn13: 9780817302887
ebook isbn13: 9780585261461
language: English
subject
publication date: 1986
lcc: PS3545.A7443F6 1986eb
ddc: 813/.52
subject:
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Foundation Stone
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The Library of Alabama Classics,
reprint editions of works important
to the history, literature, and culture of
Alabama, is dedicated to the memory of
RUCKER AGEE
whose pioneering work in the fields
of Alabama history and historical geography
continues to be the standard of
scholarly achievement.
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Foundation Stone
Lella Warren
with an introduction by
Nancy G. Anderson
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
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Copyright 1940 by Lella Warren
Copyright renewed in 1968 by Lella Warren Patch
Published originally in 1940 by Alfred A. Knopf
This edition is printed from the Collins edition, which was published
in London in 1941.
Introduction Copyright © 1986 by
The University of Alabama Press
University, Alabama 35486
All Rights Reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Warren, Lella.
Foundation stone.
I. Title.
PS3545.A7443F6 1986 813'.52 85-24498
ISBN 0-8173-0287-5
ISBN 0-8173-0288-3 (pbk.)
THIRD PRINTING 1990
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CONTENTS
Introduction vii
by Nancy G. Anderson
Book One 11
The Home Place
Book Two 97
Pioneering
Book Three 215
The Land Yields
Book Four 387
The Cotton Snobs
Book Five 473
Cotton Militant
Book Six 533
The Land Scarred
Book Seven 615
Rock Wall
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Lella Warren, 18991982
(Original Photograph: Will G. Murray;
Restoration: Jerry Morgan Medley)
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Introduction
To get all the factsnot only the incidents that lived in a family legend,
but, that vast quantity on the lay of the land a century ago, the way of
the settlers and their Indian neighbors and all the rest of the thousand
and one details which make up a vanished way of living.
1
So Lella Warren described her goal in writing Foundation Stone
(Knopf, 1940). For the source material to achieve this goal, at the
urging of her father, Warren turned to her Alabama heritagethe history
of her birthplace and her family.
On 22 March 1899, Lella Warren was born in Clayton, Barbour
County, Alabama, in the house in which her father had been born. Her
parentsBenjamin Smart Warren and Lee Ella Underwoodwere both
descendants of pioneers who had been prominent in settling Alabama,
especially Barbour County. Because of Dr. Warren's assignments with
the United States Marine Hospital Service (a forerunner of the U.S.
Public Health Service), the family moved away from Clayton when
his older daughter was only a small child. Lella Warren spent much of
her childhood at various Marine bases or quarantine stations. Later,
her family settled in Washington, where her father became assistant
surgeon general and medical director of the Middle Atlantic with the
Public Health Service. The young daughter attended the prestigious
Western High School in Washington and, as a member of a
government official's family, enjoyed the social life of the nation's
capital: leaving a card at the White House on New Year's Day,
receiving engraved invitations from President and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson to parties at the White House, and attending teas and
receptions with families of military officers, politicians, and
diplomats.
But Dr. Warren never allowed his family to forget its Alabama
heritage. As Lella Warren wrote in a 1977 Warren family history:
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Lella Warren 1915
, About
(Restoration: Jerry Morgan Medley)