I think there was some connection with parts of Miss and Drew CO AR. I was reading a book called "Sullivan Hollow" tracing what may be some of my relatives. The hollow is in southeast MS. However, the book talked about a road through there to Monticello AR. I found it curious that is was such a specific reference to such a small place. There must have been some connection. See ya, Hal Sullivan At 04:41 PM 10/29/98 -0800, you wrote: >At 6:55 PM -0500 10/29/98, Jeannie Mitchell wrote: >>Can anyone tell me if there was some sort of migration trail or connection >>between these two counties? I have an ancestor, Henry O. NASH, who was in >>Old Tishomingo Co., Miss in 1850, Drew Co., AR in 1860 and eventually (by >>1880) in Independence Co., AR. Seemed an odd route of traveling to me. > > >Jeannie, you are hitting on one of my favorite subjects. I'd also love to >know what the big 'draw' was around this time frame. > >Our Loveless ancestor, John Wesley, brought his wife and children over to >Drew County from Tishomingo County, MS, around 1858/9. He travelled with >two of his brothers, Joshua and George. Apparently also making this trip >from Tishomingo, MS with the Lovelesses was the J.J. Duboice family. > >Now, according to cousin Lynn White, J.J.'s big brother W.P. Duboice was >already over here by that time. He must have gotten word back to >Tishomingo that Drew County was a pretty good place to be. I will have to >ask cousin Lynn whenabouts the first Duboice family came over. From the >census records, W.P. Duboice was in Tishomingo Co. in 1850, but in Drew Co. >in 1860. Same for all the Lovelesses I mentioned. > >Mr. Ed Sanders of the Ark. Genealogical Society also had some Tishomingo >County ancestors who made the move to Drew County around the same general >time frame--the Bussell family. > >So there does seem to be a nice little connection between the two counties. >I'd be interested in learning of more families who made this move! Would >be glad to compare notes on where the Duboice & Loveless families were >living after I get home tonight and can check my census notes. :-) > >Oh, and you asked about migration--I would like to listen to the tape again >to get the details (it's at the Drew Co. archives), but Ida Belle Knowles >Grubbs (a granddaughter of John Wesley Loveless mentioned above) said that >her aunts remembered crossing the Mississippi River on a flat-bottomed boat >coming over to Drew Co. > >--Melissa > > > >