Nancy Terrell Furr hid in a cabin during the Civil War while Union soldiers plundered the countryside, picked all the pears from a tree nearby and killed the only cow she owned. Her husband, Gus, was away, fighting for the Confederacy, dying in 1863 in Richmond. Nancy, a strong and spirited woman, gave birth to their only child, a daughter, after her husband left for the war.
Family retains ties to historic Hall farmland