The antebellum grandeur of the Old South is well known through written page and film, but the aOther Southaathe South where Hannahas ancestors lived before, during and following the Civil War, is not as well known. A Cornerstone Inheritance traces the lives of the eighteenth-century immigrant Haywood and Free families to the twenty-first century, as they establish homesteads in the South and work hard to raise their families. The families endure destruction of homes and livelihoods during the Civil War, and their homeland does not recover for three generations. The author takes the reader into the homes, lives and minds of sharecroppers and tenant farmers and explains how and why they became indentured after the Civil War, and how they became aAmerican Serfs.a Following the Great Depression and World War Two, the surprising outcome of the story reveals how these strong Southern families finally overcame their poverty and adversity.