CIPHERING

Another story I should like to pass on has to do with one of my great-grandfathers, who was a merchant and a man of property. He had done very well for his time and day and generation. He had one slight handicap, though, that continues to be something of an embarrassment to the family. There was little schooling to be had when he was growing up during the Civil War, and as a matter of fact, the old man couldn’t read and write. A business man came in from Atlanta, and he found out that old man Davey couldn’t read