The Struggle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE HOME OF THE SHELTONS ALONG driveway paved with sea shells shipped from the Atlantic coast and overshadowed with large elm trees, leads from the station at Rocktite up to Summer Hill, the home of the Sheltons. The at Summer Hill, as is usual in this section, include many acres. These acres are laid out in a beautiful system, walkways and driveways leadmgin every direction. They are covered with beautiful shade trees and flower yards and beautiful vines entwining around the gigantic oaks and elms can be seen everywhere. It is a home in fact Receding back from Summer Hill lies a fertile . and beautiful farm of some several hundred acres. It is not covered with the blue grass, but the weed and the waving wheat fields can be seen everywhere. Summer Hill is not in the blue grass region of Old Kentucky, but in that section where the weed and the golden wheat fields grow. Col. Shelton inherited the farm from his father, who in turn inherited it as a part of his father's estate?it is a part of Maj. Tom Shelton's original estate, who removed from the Old North State and was among the first settlers of this section. The Sheltons for generations have been in comfortable circumstances, among the well to do, but not rich. They have been an industrious family, and have endeavored by honest efforts to accumulate enough of the material things of life to enjoy some of its comforts as well as the necessities of life; but they have never been a family who by questionable methods have endeavored to get the earnings of others; and have never belonged to that class of society that is commonly called profligate. Maj. Shelton, Col. John's father, was a member of the Legislature for several terms, and then represented his district in Congress for three terms; bu..