An interesting side light to the Crawford crop-and-slave story is that there was a steady influx of unionist, and Republican, folks from the eastern mountain country of KY., not used to growing cotton or holding slaves, and despising slaveholding. Many of these KY folks got their land in KY from veteran's landgrants to their parents and grandparents from service in the NC and VA militias of the Revolutionary War. My grandfather John Speed Jones, with his small family, moved to a township named Whitley after Whitley County, KY. The Meadors family, so prominent yet in Crawford, originated from the same areas. Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA

My wife actually is from Whitley Co, Ky, and is related to all of the Creekmores, Meadors, Stephens, etc that settled in Crawford County after the Civil War and named Whiltey Township, Almost every cemetery in Crawford County has many of the family names found in the Jellico Creek Cemetery in Whitley County,Ky. -----Original Message----- From: arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of WallDuncan@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:52 AM To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Greenwood Junction An interesting side light to the Crawford crop-and-slave story is that there was a steady influx of unionist, and Republican, folks from the eastern mountain country of KY., not used to growing cotton or holding slaves, and despising slaveholding. Many of these KY folks got their land in KY from veteran's landgrants to their parents and grandparents from service in the NC and VA militias of the Revolutionary War. My grandfather John Speed Jones, with his small family, moved to a township named Whitley after Whitley County, KY. The Meadors family, so prominent yet in Crawford, originated from the same areas. Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message