Twila My grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Behymer, was 6ft tall, and wrote beautiful stories, never published. At the age of 81, she set down in her notebook about her trip from Campbell Co, KY to lower Kentucky, and the wagon trip across to West Plains, Howell Co, MO. It was very exciting. They took a flat boat from the Ohio River at Newport, the Kentucky side, took a "1000" mile trip on a flat boat down the Ohio to Mississippi River stopping at the eastern tip of Kentucky, Livingston Co, staying there for a few months but there was a drouth and times were bad, so they recruited another wagon to go with them to West Plains, Howell Co, MO where their friends the "Doty's" were. There were 6 people, 2 wagons; Grandmother had a small baby. She told how they crossed rivers, and the night the Jesse James group stopped at their camp. She said it took 17 days before they reached West Plains, with rain almost everyday. They homesteaded outside the town of West Plains, and she had altogether 7boys and 3 girls, one being my father. One of her favorite poems was: .....ENDS... GOD GAVE US EACH TWO ENDS, ONE TO SIT ON - AND ONE TO THINK WITH. YOUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON THE ONE YOU USE HEADS YOU WIN....TALES YOU LOSE. (author unkown) Sallye