The Two books that Melba Clark talks about are very full of Jefferson and Blount County History of the people. Here I found the father of Robert Bartley Montgomery was Washington Montgomery not his brother Francis. So I purchased the Edited book that Robin talks about. Brown and Nabors edited... this book so that it does not carry the old stories that Mary Gordon Duffee tells of her travels and visits in the home of the people of the times. You have missed what we would want of the writings if you do not read the full writing in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age paper that the WPA recorded in the two books. They are great genealogy books. I am enjoying the writing of the list very much as avid Blount Countian. I am a descendant from Palmer, Cowden, Musgrove, Fowler, Stroud, West and my children are also, Carns, Montgomery, Gunter, Morton and more... Just some of their Blount County heritage. Keep it up. Nancy Carns =============== In a message dated 10/3/2006 9:20:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, bobwonda@hiwaay.net writes: ... The long passage quoted above, Duffee had already published almost verbatim in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in a series of articles she submitted to her friend, editor Charles Hayes. These articles were published between 1885 and 1887. These articles were collected in a book called "Sketches of Alabama" edited by Brown and Nabers and published by the University of Alabama Press in 1970. On page 53 of this work, Duffee continues the narrative... =============== In a message dated 10/4/2006 12:13:49 A.M. Central Standard Time, melbaclark@bellsouth.net writes: The book you mentioned, "Sketches of Alabama" is full of descriptions of early settlers in Jefferson and Blount Counties. I found information about my Aaron Taylor, his brother, Jesse and some of their cousins in it. There is a copy of it at the Birmingham Public Library. It has an index. Melba Clark