In a message dated 9/28/2003 7:50:32 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > remember the ferry (late 1950's)and the old man that would come and get us > at any time during the night to take our family across the river to our > camp. > We still have it the house just below the old ferry crossing on the Coosa > side. > I think that the older man you are speaking of in the early 1950's was named Charley Wyatt. The ferry did not close until the bridge was built which I think was in around 1958. As far as the Allen's in Chilton Co., I am familiar with them and have most of them in my files but cannot tie them into the Allen family that my grandmother descended from which was a Richard Allen born in about 1826 in AL. Ottis Murphy