Wade, Loretta

This novel was inspired by an ancestor (Dr. 'Doc' William May) who suffered death at the hands of his forty-year-old suitor's (Andrew Sheffield) father, Col. James L. Sheffield in 1890. Andrew Sheffield's story is written in John S. Hughes The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman. I must mention my parents, James and Ora Freeman May, for giving me a carefree country childhood in the Thompson Falls community of Marshall County, Alabama which is still listed by its old name on the county map as Ben Johnson Ridge. There are so many to thank for the completion of this novel, I fear it impossible to lis...