Beyond our Elusive William Daniel

His wife was raised in Greenville, AL. They lived in Farmersville, AL, near Greenville, and were farmers. In 1884, they and their 6 children moved to Center Hill, FL, where they took care of an orange grove. After coming to Florida they had 6 more children. In 1901 they moved to Leesburg, FL, where Wm F and his sons had a seed business.
In "The Leesburg ledger, of Leesburg, FL, 3 Dec 1932, is published a letter, of which this is part:
"I have not kept a diary of my life. (If I had I might not want to tell it all..) I will tell enough to make a long letter. Think I remember 70 years of my life. I remember hearing talk of a war to free the negros (sic). I didn't know what War was. I think I was about ten years old then. A year or two later I saw men drilling to go to war. They had guns and bayonets that didn't look good to me. A little later my mother and seven children were left with the negroes. I had a negro mammy and played with the negro children. Although my daddy was a slave owner, they were mighty good to us. I saw men & their families crying as they were leaving for the war. I was one of them, about 11 or 12 then I think. My mother died the latter part of the war. Our grandparents took the children and were good to us, but think of seven children with no mamma, and papa. We lived on a farm in a thinly settled portion of Lowndes County, one or two families of white people on a plantation of negroes.
Schools and churches far apart. We hoed and plowed barefoot. Grandpa tanned cowhides and made shoes for us to wear to church. We went to church in an ox wagon. We had biscuits for breakfast Sundays, and coffee made of parched corn or peanuts.
Grandma and three maid aunts, pa's sisters, (maids on account of the war) spun and weaved cloth and made our clothes. We went to school about three months a year, after crops were laid by, till time to pick cotton. We walked three miles... When the war was over, Pa came home and took us on a farm. Think I was about 14 then. We had a sister two years older than I who kept house for us. She didn't know how to play cards or other such games but she could keep house. After a year or two she married. Then Pa thought he had to have a housekeeper, and he married a widow with three children, 2 boys and a girl."
This excerpt is particularly interesting to me (Rowena A. Moitoret?) because it seems to contradict the story about Susan Williams Lee Bozeman being poisoned by one of her slaves -- could her son, William Franklin, have written as he did if his own mother had been murdered by a slave? Also, the family lived in Lowndes County until after the war and did not move to Butler Co, near Greenville until then, so why would a slave be hanged on a "hanging tree" near Greenville? There is a handy courthouse in Hayneville, Lowndes County, indeed it is in this courthouse where Joseph Daniel Bozeman & Susan Williams Lee got their marriage license, their application is still on file there.