Forrest Mrs Forrest

[Barrycdog]

North Georgia Citizen, Oct. 29, 1903 -- page 7

 

[diane]

That's a good one! That boy was pretty big for a whippin' but his mom could do it. She was big - 6 feet and weighed 185. That was what her oldest son weighed and he was only two inches taller than she was... What was really funny about this was the boy was being crafty - his mother was entertaining ladies for a tea. When a servant informed her of her son's reply - send a n--, I don't want to get my new uniform dirty - she froze in place, teapot in midair, then gently put it down. She smiled, excused herself, walked daintily up the stairs - picking up a stout piece of firewood from the fireplace as she passed - and quietly disappeared upstairs. In a few moments there was yelling and crashing and yowling, then silence. Mariam came back downstairs demurely, deposited the wood back by the fireplace as she passed and seated herself with a smile. A few minutes later the red-faced boy came downstairs, threw the sack of corn over the mule and rode to the mill!

Mother Forrest was tough. She once punched a Union soldier in the mouth for insulting her and roughing up her servants. Forrest, though, was a clever kid and could sometimes get around his mom. Once she was whaling on him and to stop it, he began yelling at the top of his lungs - which were darn good! The neighbors said they'd never heard a kid holler that loud... It worked, but only temporarily. Once they discovered the boy was getting a licking he deserved, they went home! And, in the incident of the ox Forrest had to shoot to keep his corn field from being destroyed, the owner stomped down the road and saw with satisfaction the teenager was trying to reload his blunderbuss. The farmer ducked under the fence to do some shooting of his own when a bullet like to parted his galluses. The shot, and two more even closer came from somewhere inside the house, sent the man running for his life back the way he'd come. The sharp shooter was most likely Mrs. Forrest!

 

[Pat Young]

So he was a victim of child abuse.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Not at all. His mom just "kept the skeer" on him.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

If such abuse caused a man to be a self-made millionaire, City Alderman, leader of men and Christian (after the war), then we are missing something in this country today!!
.....Just messin' with ya, Pat!! ....

 

[Pat Young]

If such abuse caused a man to be a self-made millionaire, City Alderman, leader of men and Christian (after the war), then we are missing something in this country today!!
.....Just messin' with ya, Pat!! ....

Dude, I missed you. Where were you?

 

[nitrofd]

Look at what we have now with no corporeal punishment.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Dude, I missed you. Where were you?

Thanks for your thoughts!!.....I just took a break for a couple of months......I felt that, sometimes, I said things I really didn't mean and maybe I hurt people's feelings, so I stayed away for a while.....I got to missing people here and missing what they had to say, so I bounced back!!.....Glad I did!!
Hope you are well!!

 

[Pat Young]

Thanks for your thoughts!!.....I just took a break for a couple of months......I felt that, sometimes, I said things I really didn't mean and maybe I hurt people's feelings, so I stayed away for a while.....I got to missing people here and missing what they had to say, so I bounced back!!.....Glad I did!!
Hope you are well!!

I noticed you were not around. I am glad to see you back. Always good to see you.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

I noticed you were not around. I am glad to see you back. Always good to see you.

Glad to see you, too!!

 

[diane]

So he was a victim of child abuse.

Well, you know this was a time when a man was considered a good husband if he didn't beat his wife and kids too much. But I have sometimes wondered about corporal punishment in the Scots-Irish culture of that day. At any rate, all the Forrest brothers were tough, and they had to be.

 

[Mike Serpa]

A Marine Sergeant was mean to his men.

He was rotten to the Corps!

 

[yellowthornoftexas]

I hated it when my mother would tell me to go out and get my own switch!!! 'Oh no, go get a bigger one.." ugh!!! Made me a better person!!!
Hey!!! I was never mean to my men!!! LOL, I was fair and backed them if they were right...LOL

 

[wayne jackson]

I hated it when my mother would tell me to go out and get my own switch!!! 'Oh no, go get a bigger one.." ugh!!! Made me a better person!!!
Hey!!! I was never mean to my men!!! LOL, I was fair and backed them if they were right...LOL

getting a switch is the electricians job

 

[yellowthornoftexas]

it's also a whoopin stick, a branch...swattin a lil one's beligerent behid with....

 

[wayne jackson]

it's also a whoopin stick, a branch...swattin a lil one's beligerent behid with....

also a cotton stalk

 

[yellowthornoftexas]

learn somethin new ev'rday!

 

[Allie]

Which of her sons joined the military at 18? I thought NBF had no military experience when he joined as a private in 1861 at the age of 40. Jeffrey, the youngest, was born in 1837 and would have been 18 in 1855. He can't have been younger because he was a posthumous child - their father died in 37.

 

[roberts]

Which of her sons joined the military at 18? I thought NBF had no military experience when he joined as a private in 1861 at the age of 40. Jeffrey, the youngest, was born in 1837 and would have been 18 in 1855. He can't have been younger because he was a posthumous child - their father died in 37.

This was Matt Luxton, a son from her second marriage. The other two Luxton boys joined as well...Dickie was 14 in 1865 IIRC. She had a total of 8 sons in Confederate service and John the son who was crippled during the Mexican War was imprisoned for shooting a Union officer in Memphis. The war would have been over two years sooner without Ms. Forrest .

 

[roberts]

Here are their names: Nathan, William H, Jesse, Aaron and Jeffery Forrest. Matt, Joe and Dickie Luxton. Her grandson Willie also served. Jeffery and Aaron died in the war and all of the Forrest suffered various wounds. Her son John suffered from his time in a Union prison as well. Some in the Luxton family believe that her second husband Joseph Luxton was shot while scouting Union positions. She was certainly a strong woman.