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title	:	Foundation Stone Library of Alabama 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
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Page i Foundation Stone

Page ii 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.

Page iii Foundation Stone Lella Warren with an introduction by Nancy G. Anderson THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Page iv 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

Page v CONTENTS Introduction by Nancy G. Anderson vii Book One The Home Place 11 Book Two Pioneering 97 Book Three The Land Yields 215 Book Four The Cotton Snobs 387 Book Five Cotton Militant 473 Book Six The Land Scarred 533 Book Seven Rock Wall 615

Page vi Lella Warren, 18991982 (Original Photograph: Will G. Murray; Restoration: Jerry Morgan Medley)

Page vii 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:

Page viii Lella Warren, About 1915 (Restoration: Jerry Morgan Medley)

Page ix Dr. Benjamin Smart Warren, 18711935, Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service (Original Photograph: Bachrach; Restoration: Jerry Morgan Medley) " he made a habit of saving up his leave for two or three years at a time, so that he could take us back down home to be re-imbued with the spirit of our birthright." Often these "leisurely visits back down home" were summer-long stays in the home of Grandmother Warren, an independent woman who had full responsibility for her large family after the death of her husband, a prominent Clayton physician, in 1885. When Dr. Benjamin Warren had an assignment on which his family could not accompany him, he left his wife and children with his mother, his sister Weetie, and his brother Monroe in the old family home. On occasion, young Lella even attended school in Clayton's one-room, "plank" school until the family could be reunited in their more permanent home in Washington. In small-town Clayton, she and her brothers and sister,

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