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We had such a wonderful day yesterday. Debra's son Jason is married to the most lovely lady Sarah who's family was having a family reunion at the family farm which was part of the Mimosa plantation settled in 1765. 8,000 acres originally. Sarah's Great grandmother stayed there all her 97 years and passed away not to many years ago.. Needless to say, there was a lot of history and collections of everything you could think of including political campaign buttons. Match boxes, clocks, color bottles and much much more. There is a log cabin on the property that is full of so many different things.

Also included was a trapped posses m which was being fed corn to take the rat taste out of the meat before cooking it, at least that's what Lee was telling us. Mike said that armadillos were just possemums on a half shell.
On the plantation is a cemetery where family members are buried included are two slaves who from the story told were given the privilege of being buried with the family after the man slave "Henry" saved one of the family and his request was just that he and his wife be buried with the family. The rest of the slaves were buried out in the back outside the cemetery grounds.
There is one white headstone which is kind of a marker for the other slave graves which are marked only with a brick.