One writer's ancestor is just like another's

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 9 14:03:19 CST 2013


I have learned serendipitously that the grandfather for whom Thomas Wolfe [homeless Tom, not Manhattan white-suited Tom] was named, Thomas Casey Westall, a major in the civil War, a "versifier" " and a zealot", broke with the Presbyterian Church over predestination.

He also was a [self-proclaimed?] "mystic" who predicted the exact hour of his death during his last illness (just as his father had done)....[doesn't seem that hard to me, esp given one's own love of being right]

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