RobertLBarnes wrote: > 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 > > > > > Many of my Craig ancestors moved to central Alabama because of the rich farming land. Selma is in the Black Belt Region because of the rich, dark dirt (or so I have been told). My Craig ancestors were living in Tennessee (from S.C.) and they fought in the War of 1812 in New Orleans. They were there when the war ended and they made their way back to Tennessee through Alabama and saw the rich black land that would be so good for farming . They went back to Tennessee and apparently reported all this to the family and one by one the families came to Dallas County a few years later. Suzanne Shuttleworth Coats -- Suzanne Coats Greetings from Forest, Mississippi!