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From: "Dorothy Ann Folmar" <>
Subject: Land and moving
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:26:14 -0600

Hi,
On the subject of moving, some of my NC ancestors were in the turpentine business and moved to GA and AL apparently seeking new trees. Other of my ancestors came to south AL from SC, some as early as 1821. One reason was evidently to obtain new land. Another reason, I've been told, was that rivers and streams along which they had settled in SC gave rise to fatal fevers and other pestilences from which they fled at times en masse.
But many of these people or their children farmed a while in AL and than moved on to MS, AR, TX, LA and other states. I've been told that one reason so many moved on was that farmers in those days usually knew nothing about building terraces in their fields or about crop rotation, so after a few years their land was depleted and didn't produce enough cotton and other crops to support them.
Dorothy Ann Folmar Pike Co.

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