His father, Thomas (1778-1851), was born in Rockingham (then Augusta) county, Virginia; he was hospitable, shiftless, restless and unsuccessful, working now as a carpenter and now as a farmer, and could not read or write before his marriage, in Washington county, Kentucky, on the 12th of June 1806,
shiftless הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד