He left the Beaver Dam Club because he wasn't a member. His father had the actual membership and once he turned 18 his visitors privileges were over. When his father passed away, his membership came down to Nash and he started hunting there again. I believe he later sold the membership, he was always hard up for money.
Then as the club waned in later years, the family who owned (and still owns) the land itself let him bring friends down to hunt to sort of keep the club alive. There is still a Beaver Dam Club, and the original family still owns the land. I believe the club is leased yearly by a group of businessmen from Memphis.
His father and mother both died of influenza and are buried side by side. Nash and his brother are both buried not far away.
I never knew if Woolard was a fictional character or a real person. I don't know as anybody has ever looked into it that hard, at least nobody I know has anyway.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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