He was clipping roses in his garden when he found out that he'd been elected President of the Confederacy
... who had been struck dead by lightning 
when he walked out to the pasture to bring the ... Two years before, she had 
taken cuttings from everyone's garden and propagated fourteen Confederate 
roses (not... [DOC] [TLE] Will Rogers: a Biography excerpt - Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma [PAR] He was a Cherokee Indian, and also the son of a Confederate veteran who 
fancied ... (later to become the state of Oklahoma), and as he reached his 
maturity he found that ...