Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,872 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,872 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Rebecca Latimer Felton and William Felton. Born in Decatur, Georgia in 1835, Rebecca Latimer grew up in the slaver class, something she always loved and always wished had never gone away. She was sent to college, which wasn’t super common among even wealthier southern white women of the era, attending Madison Female College. I think this was a combination of liberal arts education and finishing school on how to be an elite s…