This bit of a tale still requires some research. As told to me by my father, as told to him by his mother, as told to her by her mother-in-law Annie Edmunds Wilds:
That Annie's mother (we think it was Annie's mother) at the end of the Civil War and after losing two brothers in the conflict, still felt that once the hostilities were over that there should be peace. Her home was her domain and there she chose to hang a portrait of Abraham Lincoln over the mantle -- much to the shock and consternation of Columbia, South Carolina society.
The portrait remained there for the rest of her life.
