LANTZ GENEALOGY This office corresponded to our county judges and had more honor or at least more responsibility. I remember it cost him his home and nearly all his property. Some Northern soldiers had been captured by the Southern Army and in passing through the county the Southern soldiers were overpowered by a mob and the Northern soldier killed when orders were issued by the Northern officer to arrest father for he was the trial justice and Colonel Rinker who com- manded the soldiers that allowed them to be mobbed. They were also ordered to burn their dwellings. They burned father's house but not until they gave his slaves ten minutes' time to carry out the household goods, and after these things had been carried out they also burned them. Some Southern officer sent a flag of truce and a note that for every house burned they would kill ten Northern prisoners. This note was too late for my father's house but did save Colonel Rinker's. Later they arrested father but released him for some cause I do not think he ever knew. He was active in politics. Was a Democrat but sided with the Readjusters and I think was headed for the Repub- lican party. I remember in the beginning this movement was very strong, in fact they carried the state for four or five years. Harry Riddlebarger was our U. S. Senator and he wanted father to stump the state. This he refused to do but did promise he would challenge any one in the county. This he did and many were the joint discussions. I saw many fights, in fact it looked to me as if every one was fighting at one meeting. I remember father taking M. L. Walton by the arm and pleading that the Funders had listened to him and his friends should now listen to Mr. Walton; that he was entitled to a reply and he could answer his questions. Strange to say I do not think any one that spoke in those discussions ever got mad with father. Father never felt happier than when he could play a joke on some one. Isaac Holler afforded him much amusement. One time he persuaded him to go with him to a neighbor's melon patch. Father then told the neighbor the plans and had him watch the patch. Mr. Holler was on time and after each had gotten some melons they were discovered. They were told to halt, father said "Run Ike: run." The neighbor fired his gun. Father pretended to be shot and called to Ike to come get him but Ike was falling down and getting up too fast v