When the Toppled Statue Is of Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather

Clayton Wickham, 28, said he used to think of the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather as “just a statue that had my name on it that was kind of cool to walk by every now and then.” But as Mr. Wickham learned more about his ancestor, the statue became a source of discomfort, and then of shame. And so when protesters in Richmond, Va., recently tore down the bronze statue of Williams Carter Wickham, a Confederate general and plantation…