This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grinder, Reeves, Barnett, Baker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2V.2ADE/1212.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Good questioN! *grin* the wagon train that brought them came out of the Wayne Co./Lewis COunty TN area.. the grinders at least appear to be kin to some who settled on the Natchez Trace up in Lewis county near Hoenwald.. The park there on the trace commemorates the death of Merriwether Lewis at Grinders Inn on the Trace.. I cant draw definite lines to between them though. These folks were all living on the banks of the Buffalo River and some of its creeks.. when they moved to Searcy County AR, the river they settled on was, appropriately enough, named the Buffalo, probably out of homesickness