-----Original Message----- From: Scalawag1867@aol.com [mailto:Scalawag1867@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:53 PM To: BAXTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAXTER~] Wagon Trains How would you know if your ancestors traveled with Wagon Trains? My ancestors came from North and South Carolina , in the early 1800s,traveling thru Georgia, crossing over to Alabama, one ancestor having a passport leaving Georgia into Alabama. They settled in Mississippi and some went on to Texas. In all my researching I have never heard mention of a Wagon Train. I really don't know how they traveled. I do know that some of the families that was with them in Georgia settled with them in Mississippi. My gr gr grandpapa J. W. Baxter and my gr gr grandmother Charity Elizabeth Williford were born 1808 in Georgia while traveling and settling in lower Alabama. My Woulards were from North Carolina and were one of the few white settlers that settled in Wayne County, Mississippi. (Eret and State Line) Benjamin F. Woulard born in 1804 and was on his way to Mississippi by1810. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help. Sandra maiden name Waldrop Georgia Dear Sandra, JW Baxter was the son of Israel Baxter and his second wife Delia. He ws the brother of Theophilus Baxter whose wife Mary had the spat the Baptist church with Israel's first wife Lucy. Theophilus and Mary left the church and went to Mississippi. He had a Georgia passport to cross Indian territory in 1810. There was a William Baxter on the passport with him. He also went with his unnamed children whose names I have been trying to find. One of the Baxters was nearly beaten to death while crossing the Saltcatcher River while on a wagon train south. Saltcatcher is a corrruption of the Indian name Saltenhatchie for the river which was handed down. Hatcha is a Choctaw? word for river and occurs in several places across the South, as in Atchafalaya and Pointe a la Hache in the New Orleans are. Regards, Bob