This is quite interesting. Which Carlocks went from Stokes/Rockingham Co., NC, to Overton Co., TN? What are some details of the massachre? Katheryn --- [email protected] wrote: > > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > Received: from rly-xn03.mx.aol.com (rly-xn03.mail.aol.com >> Received: (from [email protected]) > > Resent-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:15:42 -0600 > X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed May 28 13:15:41 2003 > From: "LM Fancher" <[email protected]> > Old-To: "OCTK-L" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:26:48 -0700 > > Subject: [OCTK-L] Overton Co. Descendants and the Mountain Meaows > Massacre > Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > > The Mountain Meadows Massacre was an important event in history that > greatly > impacted the lives of many families in Overton County, TN, and > Carroll > County AR. The primary families involved in the massacre immigrated > into > Overton County in 1796 and 1806 from Stokes/Rockingham Co. North > Carolina. > Richard Fancher, grandfather to many of those massacred died in > Overton Co. > in 1829 and is buried at Sinking Cane. Names associated with this > wagon > train from Overton County are FANCHER, INGRAM, CARLOCK, POTEET, > SMITH, > MILLER (MYLER) BAKER, DUNLAP, SISCO, TACKETT, JONES, MILUM, MITCHELL, > RUSH, > WOOD to name a few. The migration from Overton County into Arkansas > by > these families began in 1836 and continued up until the time they > left for > California in 1857. As I have spent several years trying to document > these > families from Overton County and how they are inter-related, it > seemed to me > that story is a legitimate one to many genealogists and a valuable > one to > descendants still in Overton County. > > LM Fancher > > > > > > ==== OCTK Mailing List ==== > The Overton Co., TN KIN....A newsletter for researchers in Overton, > Fentress, Pickett Counties in Tennessee. Started in 1993. Published > quarterly. > > > --part1_1ea.9ba8b17.2c06a3f5_boundary-- > > > ==== CARLOCK Mailing List ==== > Messages to the Ancestry.com CARLOCK Message Board also automatically > post to this list! > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.carlock > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com