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About the Author:

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Thomas Lee Clark  lives in the greater Nashville, Tennessee area. After retiring from a  career in publishing, he has worked and volunteered as a docent at Travellers Rest Plantation for over ten years.

About the Book:

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Courage for Living featuring Harriet Virginia Maxwell Overton
ISBN  978-1-935271-97-0      6.14x9.21, 566 pages,   $29.95

The Civil War brought radical change  to Harriet Overton’s life. The mother of five children, she was thrust  into total management of the 2300 acre plantation when her husband, John,
was away at war.  Not yet thirty years old, Harriet struggled to nurture her  children, direct the work of her fifty slaves, and fend off the  challenges of the Union Army troops on her property. During the Battle  of Nashville in 1864, the Travellers Rest plantation became the battlefield.  Harriet defended her family, home, and property. Her southern  pride continued
throughout her lifetime.      

“A significant  account of a significant person (Harriet Virginia Maxwell Overton) -- the second First Lady of Travellers Rest.”    Candace Hale Page, Executive Director of Travellers Rest until her untimely death in July 2011

“What fun to imagine  the lives lived by this family. The author presents such a lively and entertaining look into the early history of this fascinating group of  people. It is wonderful that
this time in Nashville history is being  illuminated
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                                                                R. Wray Estes, great grandchild of  Mary White May Overton 


“The author has captured  the life and events of one of the leading families in Nashville in the 1800s with a fast-flowing novel about Mrs. Harriet Virginia Maxwell Overton  of Travellers Rest. The family interactions certainly keep one anxious  to continue reading.”       
Mrs. Virginia Gooch Watson,  Member of Nashville Chapter No. 1, United Daughters of the Confederacy and  Honorary State President of the Tennessee Division, UDC  and Past  president of the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society  

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