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Cigdem Sumbas A Land Remembered A land remembered is a story of three generations of MacIvey family. The story begins in 1858 when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida with their son Zech and it ends up in 1968 when Zech decides to die in Miami. A land remembered is a rich story in Florida history with starts wild life and shows how the first generation struggles with surviving their life, second generation has put their root in Florida soils, and how the third generation got the wealthiest in these lands. The first generations of MacIveys had many difficulties at the early stages of being in Florida. After a while they learned how to continue to exist and making money. The MacIveys consisted of Tobias who was a father and husband, Emma who was the mother, and Zech who was the son of them. The family decided to move from Georgia to Northern Florida to escape from the Civil War. Tobias and his family learned many new things to survive their lives. For instance, Tobias killed raccoons to trade for supplies that how they were poor and their life were hard. In the same way, they experienced many troubles that turned their life more difficult than before. For example, once a time Tobias had joined the federals to help them, that time soldiers who were federals attacked Tobias barn, Emma, and Zech. The family lost everything what they had. However, he struggled with all those difficulties. He was a strong man to continue to live in the wild life. Also, he was a helpful man who helped many times Indians who had many problems with white people. Tobias showed many times that he was not only a fair man, but also he would not tolerate prejudice in others. He was the founder of the family, and the one of the person who got them rich. He knew how to survive, and he was a very wise man, yet very stubborn and sometimes very naive. He knew he had to figure something out to make him a wealthy man. First he started with con skins, that didn't go very well. Then he went to trying to catch cattle and he made the family rich.
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