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A sample of poetry from the day book of Frances Fair. Charles Blakenship writes,
"I think that Frances Fair either wrote the poem or copied the same from a newspaper and wrote it in
her Day Book as an omen for things to come, i. e. the Civil War. Three of her sons: William R., Francis R. and Benjamin R. Nicks served.
Perhaps her son, Robert Henry R. Nicks was among the "old men and young boys" who defended Brooksville in 1864.
He would have been a teenager, but he did not receive a Pension for the same."
A transcription of the poem follows:
Go gallant youth at honor's call
And precious is the tears she shed |