This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ic.2ADE/72.384 Message Board Post: I have a little bit of info on this massacre. It occured around 1837 near what is now known as Pridgen, GA. The whole family (sorry no names were mentioned other than the surname) were robbed and killed by the Indians. When word of the murder spread a company of citizens including, Redding Metts, John Passmore, Fred Merritt, Mr. Maddox and others pursued the Indians, who were overtaken at the Flint River, near Albany, GA. Many of the Indians were killed, some swam the river and escaped. John G. Taylor, who since that time became a well known Baptist minister in South Georgia, dived down to the bottom of the river and brought many of the Indians to land. This information came from Ward's History of Coffee County published in 1930. ISBN 0-87152290X. My father was a Grantham.