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    1. [Campbell] THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN ALONG TIME UNANSWERED AT
    2. Something tat Gives me concern. is the relocatio of Three of My Ancestroal Families, That the difference of the terian of their Original Home aea & What they setled for in the AREA that they settled for where they Relocated to. MY ancestor RichardPowell frm eastern Virginia<?> I have a map of the area on Puppy creek road on the west side of Tobaco Row Mountian, I have Visited this area Good for OPOSSUM HuNTING & wild grapes> My Coffey family, Relocated to the top of long mountian, another area good for Hard Scrable Farming, OPOSSUM Hunting, I this location they formed Coffey Town <??> Then My 5th Great Grand Pa George Campbell Settled on the North side of PINEY RIVER, Where he Evently Bought some land & Raised his large Family, in one of the least likely farming areas in the SState of Virginia. Haveing been raised on a Virginia Farm in Amherst Counnty Va & Lived on Farms in AMELIA, APPOMATTOX & Russell Counties. THERE is no way that from where MY Ancestors Camefrom & The area that they settled in in Amherst as being a wise selection of Farming Land, oer the area that thel left as being a wise selection> There I must assume that there was another reason for their relocation. IT is with out a POSIABLE DOUBT, that it was NOT THE LAND Choice that MY Ancestors Settled in The Three areas of Amherst COUNTY VA. that they & their Descendants were found in. DUE to the UNQUESTIONABLE Fact: Of my Ancestors Haveing left the Area of Va that they DID & settleing tn the Rough Mountian Area that they selected, That area was not the Best Land for Farming, Even in AMHERST Couny. I have to wonder if there is some unmentionable reason that they settled in the ROUGEST part of AMHERST COUNTY. Coffey's, Campbell's, & Powell's from ICE farming Country,??> TO SETTLING into the MOST Undesireable Farming Area of the County< FOR WHAT REASON??? REALY gives reasn to wonder why: IT is unquestionable that these three areas of Amherst County ARE THE MOST undesireable For farming. QUESTION? just why did these PEOPLE leave sme of THE MOST DESIREABLE farming land & settle in the MOUNTIANS? IT jut does not add up to that was the best that <THE COFFEY's, Campbell's & Powells Could DO. There had to be some other reason, WHAT??? Is the reason unavailable or NOT MENTIONED??. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS QUESTION NOR AN ATTEMPT TO GIVE A REASON. CUZ AT

    06/01/2013 09:56:52