He, his wife Frances and two daughter lived on his cotton plantation, Westover, near Augusta, Georgia. His nephew James Longstreet spent time at Westover, and moved there permanently in 1833 when his father died and mother moved to Alabama. Augustus was a respected lawyer and judge, a newspaper editor and publisher, a nationally known humorist “Georgia Scenes” and a Methodist minister. He was a passionate advocate of state’s rights, and was fond of whiskey and card games. ®4061 He was President of Emory University (College), Georgia, the University of South Carolina, the University of Mississippi and Centenary College in Louisiana.
Atlanta Constitution, 20 July 1870
Hon. A. B. Longstreet is Dead.
We regret that a notice of the death of Hon. A. B. Longstreet, prepared for yesterday's issue, was crowded out. Though he had attained to four score years of his life, the news of his death comes to his numerous friends and admirers alas! too soon. He died at his residence at Oxford, Mississippi, on the 9th instant, closing a long life of continued and uninterrupted usefulness. Though a venerable representative of a past generation, the association of his name always called up gave to the character of Judge Longstreet an youthfulness that rendered him a great favorite with the present generation, as he was with the companions of his youth and vigorous manhood, by who he was almost idolized.He was not (as too often the aged permit themselves to become) "the wreck of a past age drifted upon the present." At every step of his honorable career he was an active, useful citizen. Well educated by the various and varied experiences of a career of great mental activity, he was ever ready and competent to meet the responsibilities of the current moment. Hence the secret of his continued and uninterupted popularity to the end of his earthly days. He was one of Georgia's sons of whom every Georgian is justly proud. Amid the mourning for the departure of a great and good one from this earth, the virtues which rendered Judge Longstreet's presence joyful to all, who came in contact with him, suggest the cheering consideration, that his passage "through the dark valley of the shadow of death" was illuminated by the Christian's well-founded hope.

Gilbert Longstreet 1783-1851: Married Martha Henrietta Eve, 1792-1833, daughter of Aphra Ann and Oswell Eve. Gilbert was son of William and Hannah FitzRandolph Longstreet and brother of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. ®3633