Can you PLEASE tell me where I can find "the lists" that were prepared for the "Trail of Tears"?? I was told there wasn't one!? Thanks, Susan > > From: Lamisu@aol.com > Date: 2006/10/06 Fri AM 11:11:44 EDT > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] ALBLOUNT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 41 > > I don't think the Richard Ratliff that helped Andrew Jackson fought in the > Revolution. In fact some of Jackson's people including Crockett thought him to > be a Tory and took away all his goods. Jackson got furious at this and made > them give them back. One son "Whooping Boy", was a hero and was wounded. Neither > died. Many of the Ratliff clan survived the "Trail of Tears" and made it to NE > Oklahoma. You will find their names on the various lists prepared for the > journey. > > My gggg grand father was Jeremiah Ratliff from NC who eventually settled in > Blount Co. I have no record of him serving in the Revolution. He traveled > throughout the south with the Holt family. The head of that family did serve and > was rewarded a pension later. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALBLOUNT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > SURNAMES BEING RESEARCHED: Allgood,Battles,Boyd,Bynum,Elgin,Holland ,Hollind,Hollin,Jackson,Murphree,Nations,Roach,Roache,etc., Stanfield,Thomason, Westbrook,Moody,Walker,Hudson.