C. T. Suddeth

Progress? 1906, my great-grandfather, Thomas Gillenwaters, left Kentucky, moved to be near his Union Civil War comrade, William Slaughter, who had a huge farm on Charlestown Pike, Jeffersonville, Indiana. By the time I came along, my grandparents owned a small farm nearby, the Slaughter Farm had become the Armstrong Farm—my uncle worked there and brought a tractor over for me to ride. Now it is butt-ugly apartments. I weep as I drive by.