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Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Greenwood Junction
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:52:12 EST


An interesting side light to the Crawford crop-and-slave story is that there
was a steady influx of unionist, and Republican, folks from the eastern
mountain country of KY., not used to growing cotton or holding slaves, and
despising slaveholding. Many of these KY folks got their land in KY from veteran's
landgrants to their parents and grandparents from service in the NC and VA
militias of the Revolutionary War. My grandfather John Speed Jones, with his
small family, moved to a township named Whitley after Whitley County, KY. The
Meadors family, so prominent yet in Crawford, originated from the same areas.

Duncan the Librarian

Yarmouth Port, MA

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