Free Bounty Land was the magnet. ----- Original Message ----- From: Susie Bates <suzzeb@evcom.net> To: <ALDALLAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] Wagon Trains from South Carolina > Kathryn, > I don't know about any wagon train in 1830' s, but my Hendrix line (Dutch) > moved from Orangeburg S.C. to Dallas Co. before 1820. > I think you are on the right track. Central Alabama must have had something > special for so many families to move there about that time. > Susie Bates > Orlando, Florida > -----Original Message----- > From: KaUzGr@aol.com <KaUzGr@aol.com> > To: ALDALLAS-L@rootsweb.com <ALDALLAS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Monday, August 30, 1999 9:52 PM > Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] Wagon Trains from South Carolina > > > >Does anyone know about a large group of people who moved from the > Orangeburg > >District of South Carolina to Dallas County/Wilcox County in the early > 1830s? > > There may have been one, comprised of families of German/Swiss descent. > > > >Kathryn > > >