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From: "David G. Cowart" <>
Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Greenwood Junction
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:02:59 -0600
In-Reply-To: <c21.ed69702.32de4eac@aol.com>


My wife actually is from Whitley Co, Ky, and is related to all of the
Creekmores, Meadors, Stephens, etc that settled in Crawford County after
the Civil War and named Whiltey Township, Almost every cemetery in
Crawford County has many of the family names found in the Jellico Creek
Cemetery in Whitley County,Ky.

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Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Greenwood Junction


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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