Another tidbit about my anti-lynching Alabama great-great-grandfather Hewitt: He enlisted as a 1st Lt., Co. C, 20 Alabama Infantry, CSA, in 1861. As far as I know, he never owned a slave, but his grandfather, another Methodist minister, did. The Rev. Capt. James Tarrant (1753-1840; commissioned by Thomas Jefferson) moved from Virginia to South Carolina after the Revolution and then to Alabama in 1820. He and his slave Adam together built a log church in Bethlehem, AL. "The Rev. James Tarrant died in the thirties, at his home, and was buried on his own premises, a few hundred yards from Bethlehem church; and Adam, the negro, died in the eighties. The master and the slave were both good men, true Methodists, and useful Christians. Some time before Adam died he said to a friend and brother who had known him long and well: 'For sixty years I have not told an untruth, and for forty years a drop of liquor has not gone in my mouth.' There was a noble example of integrity and of sobriety." Anson West, _History of Methodism in Alabama_ (Publishing House, Methodist Episcopal Church, Nashville TN, 1893), p. 292. Francis Asbury Hewitt preached the funeral sermon for Adam "who was noted for his religious excellence." The church was still in use when I visited it in 1981. As I said before, people are capable of holding contradictory principles. Tarrant worked side by side with Adam and praised him often as a good man and exemplary Christian. He recognized his slave's marriage and apparently treated Adam kindly. Nevertheless, his will leaves "to my son James Tarrant Junior and to his heirs, my plantation on which I now reside, containing one hundred acres more or less. . . also . . . my household and kitchen furniture, my negro man Adam and his wife Mary, one sorrel mare, all my farming utensils, my waggon and work steers, all my stock of cattle and hogs, and all my personal property, of whatsoever description". Kathleen The Book Doctor