Bobbie, You are absolutely right re this story. Technically, there are two old descriptions of the border, but I wont go into that. Rebecca ---------- > From: Bobbie Lehman <blehman@seark.net> > To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] location of Possum Valley/Corinth > Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 9:20 PM > > As to the location of Possum Valley, you have the description down pretty > well, Rebecca, (You notice I used the correct word) but it use to be said > that no one knew where it started or ended. If asked where Possum Valley > was, the answer would always be "It's up this way or down that way". Guess > we all were never quite sure. > > Could a "box house" be a dog trot house--? I told Melissa that the corn > crib that Micajah Knowles built was still at our house until shortly before > Mamma died. I did not realize that it was that old. I had wanted at one > time to preserve it, but the elements of time got the best of it before I > got around to doing anything. Don't know what happed to the remains. > > Bobbie > > ---------- > > From: rdea <rdea@seark.net> > > To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [ARDREW-L] location of Possum Valley/Corinth > > Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 9:23 AM > > > > one of our members asked privately where the Valley was. > > Here is my reply. Rebecca > > > > > > look in the front and back pieces of Old Times...ha. > > > Possum Valley is in the extreme southwest corner of the county. > > > Shiloh and Ozment Bluff are just north of it. > > > The western border is the Saline River [Gee's Landing, Landfair place] > > > Negro Bend lies just south of the valley and adjoins Ashley line. > > > to the east, it is rather vague....about where the tram road between > > > Lacey and the Ozment Bluff - New Hope road is. > > > Rebecca > > > >