This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/1062 Message Board Post: In reply to the following: >> At some stage I read an account about a Farmer who left the Central Georgia area and migrated to Texas pre 1865 (see below). Can someone refresh my memory on which family this was? The daughter nursed her parents and most of the slaves and other travellers and barely survived the disease herself. Her brothers in Texas came and returned her to Georgia and her brother there. I can still get quite emotional when I think about this story, but can't remember the name of the family. I think it may have been in a book about Peach County or Crawford County - can anyone identify the family for me? The irony was the farmer was leaving his beautiful Georgia home, because he wanted his children to have farms around him. Thank you Gaila << There may be other stories similar to this, but there was a book written in the 1950s (I think) that dealt with a similar story. I believe it was written by a "Matthews" of Ft. Valley, and the Luce family also was related to those who ventured West. A few years back, I was given 2 or 3 new copies (it had been reprinted in the 1980s) of this book, by descendants of this family, but would have to do some serious digging to find them.