I have often wondered about these routes myself. My ancestors left Maury County TN in the middle 1870's and I found them in Cotton Plant in the 1880 census and on earlier tax rolls, but there are a couple of missing years and I have wondered where they might have stopped along the way. -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of elliemcghee@hotmail.com Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 11:30 PM To: ARWOODRU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Migration routes to Cotton Plant Woodruff Co AR abt 1866 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/639 Message Board Post: Wanting to learn the migration routes to Cotton Plant, Woodruff Co AR during mid-1860's (1866), particularly those used by folks from So IL, So IN, No TN. I've looked at maps of the main westward migration routes and they all seem to run more east-west, rather than southwest. They also seem to lie farther to the north than Cotton Plant. Did people from S IL come down the Mississippi to a certain point, then come west overland? Or did they cross the Mississippi at St Louis and come south overland? A map would be great! Thanks! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237