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Wildwood All through his life Uncle Will hated the “damn Yankees” with an intensity that cannot be comprehended now. He wouldn't allow any of his boys to wear blue suits because it had been the color of the Yankees' uniforms. Not until the boys were grown and had left home did they ever have blue clothes. Throughout most of his life after the Civil War, Uncle Will dressed in white suits, white dusters, and broad brimmed white felt hats. |
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Uncle Will was an impulsive, quick-tempered man who could hit hard and fast, and often did. He was never one to dodge an issue on any question whatsoever. On the other hand, he loved his family and his friends with an overwhelming affection. Soon after Uncle Will and Sarah Eliza were married, her brother Ed Glave and his wife Lizzie came to make a short visit. Their visits lasted respectively for forty-five and forty-three years during which they became integral family members of Wildwood. They both died at the farm.
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Like all good Central Kentucky farms, Wildwood was practically self-sustaining. Everything used on the farm, with the exceptions of coffee, tea, sugar, salt, spices, nails, horseshoes, farm implements, and some clothing, was produced at Wildwood. The food for the table was produced, including canning and storing for the winter. The oversupply was taken to Harrodsburg merchants and used as credit throughout the year. Wool was carded for dresses and suits, and hides were taken to the local cobbler to be tanned and made into shoes and farm implements. Wheat, hemp, and tobacco were sold. The hay, oats, and corn were raised to feed the livestock. Lambs, hogs, horses, mules, cattle and chickens were bred and raised. Excess livestock, wheat, hemp, and tobacco served as the money crops.
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