It's not unusual to hear a Bajonit plantation in the

southern part of the United States. After all, most of these plantations ran off of slave labor,

and it's no secret that most of these slaves were treated cruelly, and in many cases ripped away

from their families. This led to overall miserable lives. You had in the tragedies of the Civil War,

not to mention that many deaths due to illness such as yellow fever, and you have the perfect

breeding ground for honkings. When you hear the term honoured plantation, the Mertles plantation

is probably the first to come to mind, and for good reason, it is the most well-known honoured

plantation. You have probably never heard of the rather wood plantation in Tennessee. Until today.

Her name was Roena, and it is said that in

her day she was the fairest maiden in all of Hostin Valley. There's little doubt that she was her

father's greatest joy and his ultimate sorrow. Roena's father, the Reverend Frederick A. Ross,

was a man who always liked to think of himself as a Virginia gentleman.

Reverend Ross was quite an enterprising young man. As a matter of fact, it was he who laid out the

Tennessee town of Rossville, later called Kingsport, and he founded another community named Christianville,

and in addition to founding towns, buildings, bridges, and ministry into his flock, the Reverend

also ran Rutherwood plantation. While his duties often kept him quite busy, the Reverend still found

time to read. Frederick Ross was particularly fond of the writings of Sir Walter Scott, so much so,

in fact, that he named Rutherwood after a locale in Scott's epic romance Ibnho. He even named

his daughter after the hero one of the same novel. Reverend Ross shawered his daughter Roena with

everything a father's money could buy, for he could deny her nothing. In a short span of years,

the flaxen haired Roena grew from a child to a young woman. As talented as she was beautiful,

Roena was educated in the finest northern schools and was a skilled musician and charming hostess,

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