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Born on a farm. Died in a church. Clinton Burns, my ancestral cousin, grew up in western Pennsylvania in the 1850s when the slavery issue was red-hot and even fracturing families. Young Clinton got swept up in this cauldron of conflict. Even the wood used for flag poles was politicized. A hickory pole was in honor of Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory,” while anti-slavery sentiments were symbolized by poplar wood. Clinton’s memoirs reveal his father’s feelings on the flag pole issue. “My father thought slavery to be a sin against God, a crime against his fellow man, and a blot on our country’s reputation. He used poplar wood.”

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