This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RS.2ADI/1529.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the information. It would be interesting to know the origin of the name," Possum Trot." I know it is found in several places. I have a sneaky suspicion that our ol' friend Brer Possum may follow a particular path on his nightly rounds and that may be the source of the name. Though I grew up in south Alabama and have pulled a few possums from a hole or two and cloistered them in sweet taters, I don't remember ever seeing a "possum path or "trot" There must be someone out there who knows more than I about that little marsupial?..Willie in California