Chattooga : The Story of a County & It's People Have fun.Shelby

At 08:40 AM 4/10/01 -0400, you wrote: >Chattooga : The Story of a County & It's People > >Have fun.Shelby Thanks, I guess I should at least introduce myself. Thru the help Charlotte Mason in Rosseville, we finally attached my branch of the Gilreath family to the rest of the Gilreath tree. Her Grandfather was my great grand fathers brother. The importance for this list is that it ties me back to James H Gilreath who settled in the Broomtown valley in the 1850's. 2 more generations of his family lived there. His Son Hiram is who we are looking for more information on now. We live in the UP of Michigan, 4 hours north of Green Bay Wisconsin. Yes we are way up north. My Great grandfather followed the wollen mills work to LaPorte Indiana bringing my 16 year old grandfather with him. My father was born in LaPorte, and I in Michigan City, Indiana. I moved to The UP of michigan To attend Michigan Tech Univ in 1977 and never left, I now work for the university. We came to Georgia last summer and met all of the Gilreath related to Charlotte and traveled around the cemetaries and the broomtown valley, not knowing exactly where they lived, but close enough, we felt at home. we stopped at Gilreath creek on Gilreath Mill road, and even ran into another Gilreath while filling the Gas tank in Trion. I have been reading with interest all the mail and accounts of my ancesters county. Thanks for all the information, and if anyone has any info on the Gilreath's of Broomtown valley (especially James H's line), please contact me. Thanks again Bob Bob Gilreath Telcom Engineer IT Telcom Michigan Tech University 906-487-3697 bobg@mtu.edu

> > >The importance for this list is that it ties me back to James H Gilreath >who settled in the Broomtown valley in the 1850's. 2 more generations >of his family lived there. His Son Hiram is who we are looking for >more information on now. I must correct myself, James H settled in the Broomtown valley sometime in the 1830's, before the 1840 census. Bob Bob Gilreath Telcom Engineer IT Telcom Michigan Tech University 906-487-3697 bobg@mtu.edu