D)
In time, the tree came to be something of a tourist attraction, known as The Tree That Owns Itself.
However, in the early 20th century, the tree started showing signs of its slow death, with little that could be done about it.
Father time（时间老人） comes for us all eventually, even our often long lived, tall and leafy fellow custodians（守护者） of Earth.
Finally, on October 9, 1942, the over 30 meter tall and 200-400 year old tree fell, rumor（谣言） has it, as a result of a severe windstorm and/or via having previously died and its roots rotted.
E)
About four years later, members of the Junior Ladies Garden Club (who'd tended to the tree before its unfortunate death tracked down a small tree grown from a nut taken from the original tree.
And so it was that on October 9, 1946, under the direction of Professor Roy Bowden of the College of Agriculture at the University of Georgia, this little tree was transplanted to the location of its ancestor（祖先）.
A couple of months later, an official ceremony was held featuring none other than the Mayor of Athens,Robert L McWhorter, to commemorate（纪念） the occasion.
F)
This new tree became known as The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself and it was assumed that, as the original tree's heir, it naturally inherited （继承）the land it stood on.
Of course, there are many dozens of other trees known to exist descending（下降） from the original, as people taking a nut from it to grow elsewhere was a certainty.
That said, to date, none of the original tree's other children have petitioned （请愿）the courts for their share of the land, so it seems all good.
In any event, The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself still stands today, though often referred to simply as The Tree That Owns Itself.
G)
This all brings us around to whether Jackson ever actually gave legal ownership of the tree to itself in the first place and whether such a deed is legally binding（法律约束力）.
H)
Well, to begin with, it turns out Jackson only spent about three years of his life in Athens, starting at the age of 43 from 1829 to 1832, sort of dismissing（解散） the idea that he loved the tree from spending time under it as a child and watching it grow, and then worrying about what would happen to it after he died. 本章未完，请点击下一页继续阅读！ 第2页/共3页
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