October 20, 2002...
...The Martha Ann Rackley Home Place...
...Vernon Holt talks to his niece, Pam Nantz Webb about this special place...
This is the location of my Great-Great-Great Grandparents home place... My family started searching for this site in the late 60's by taking hikes that took many hours back into the North Georgia wilderness in Gilmer County, with directions from elderly relatives that remembered the location from their childhoods...
The marker was placed by Great-Great Grandsons Vernon and John Holt, sons of Ina Odell Rackley Holt and Great-Great Grandson Don Rackley, son of Ina's brother Coatus Clifford Rackley...
My Parents found the gravesite of Francis Marion Rackley in the Confederate Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky... Research showed he died as a prisoner of war in the General Hospital in Louisville...