At this time I'm not sure if this occurred in Fayette or Marion County, but my grandmother told me a story told to her by her grandmother: When my great-great-grandmother Lovey was very young, Northern troops came through their farm. All the men were away at war and the troopers proceeded to steal all the food they could carry off. They shot every animal that might provide food for the people living there, burned or destroyed every crop in every field, and left the people destitute. One of the slaves had managed to hide an old milk cow away from the troops and brought her to the main house. Another of the slaves asked, "Ma'am, what's we goin' to do? What's we goin' to eat now the crops all gone?" Lovey's mother looked at the people around her, then held her head up and said, "We have the cow so there will be milk for the children. As for the rest of us, we will follow that cow wherever she goes. What she eats, we will eat." They did exactly that, and survived to replant and start over again. Dale