Excerpt from Memoirs of the Fort and Fannin Families The memoirs of my mother, Martha Low Fort, were dictated to my sister Fannie, (Mrs. Julius L. Brown) and myself, in the summer of 1881, at Macon, Ga., two years before my mother's death. She was a modest woman, and it was only at our earnest solicitation that she consented to relate these reminicences. We felt that the lives of our father and mother and the facts concerning the Fort and Fannin families, united by their marriage, were of such interest and importance to their descendants that they should be preserved. With much reluctance, and frequently interrupted by illness, my mother, then seventy-seven years of age, dictated her memoirs. She omitted much concerning herself, being disinclined to speak freely of my father's and of her own virtues, nor did she tell all that was known to the family of my father's long, varied and illustrious career. These omissions were due in part to her modesty, and also to a memory less clear than in early life. Therefore, in order to finish these reminiscences, and present the surviving members of the family more complete biographical sketches of our beloved parents, I have supplemented my mother's memoirs with much additional information that I possess. I have also added sketches, stories, and other matter prepared by different members of the family which throw more light on the Fort and Fannin families and especially on the lives of Tomlinson and Martha Low Fort. I believe that I am in better position to do this than any other member of the family, as I was longer and more closely associated with our mother and have made this collection of family history a work of years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.