Hello researchers, 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 "Gaila & James Merrington" <gaila@merrington.net> wrote: > >I have read the story of a family from Crawford County, Ga or nearby- a prosperous > >farmer moving to Texas with his family and others including many slaves. > >Only one son and his family stayed in Georgia and two other sons had > >preceded them into Texas. > > > >On the journey, the slaves came across some discarded clothes and blankets and took > >them. After they fell ill, they realised the clothes belonged to people with small pox or > >some other dread disease and the whole family was struck down. Only a few > >survived, including only one daughter from the original family. > > > >Conditions could be shocking. The migration trails were probably taken from > >old Indian trails.