| | 1 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Ignoble Martyr  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OLD Aaron Pettit, who had tried to live for ten years with half of
his body dead from paralysis, had given up at last. He was
altogether dead now, and laid away out of sight in the three-cornered lot where the Pettits had been buried since colonial days.
The graveyard was a triangle cut out of the wheat field by a
certain Osee Pettit in 1695. Many a time had Aaron, while
ploughing, stopped to lean over the fence and calculate how many
bushels of grain the land thus given up to the dead men would have
yielded. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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