Marriage and Family
He married Mary Wallace of Holly Springs. Their firstborn son died in January 1861, after their move to Arkansas.
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“With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.”
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