This is such a wonderful opportunity to get to read this diary. All our ancestors who traveled from Georgia to all points west went through the same kind of travel except some were not nearly as glamourous. I live in Conecuh County, AL near the Butler County Line and our ancestors who settled in these parts were mainly settlers in Georgia before coming here. The land was unsettled and frightning with "militant" Indians looking for revenge and in some cases killing whole families. Absolutely no one had better than wagons, mules and horses for travel but many had worse . Many traveled Indian paths by foot. They rolled their belongings by barrels and carried their sick on stretchers made of poles and skins. We must give our ancestors credit for the hardships gone through to make this country great. Thanks, Mom, for allowing this first issue and I do look forward to more. __Ruth [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Holloway" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:59 AM Subject: [GEORGIA] List Mom!!!! RE: Diary > Could you give Anne a little help? > Thanks > Hank > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Anne Brown > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Diary > > > If you are sending it as an attachment, it will not be allowed on the > list. > If it is just too long, maybe you can break it up into smaller portions. I > am not a list manager, so I am just guessing about this. Anne Brown FL > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "brenda" <[email protected]> > To: "Georgia Roots" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 9:25 PM > Subject: [GEORGIA] Diary > > >>I tied to post the Diary but I don't think it will be allowed, this is >>the >>message that I received back. >> >> Message body is too big: 137452 bytes with a limit of 40 KB >> >> Your message will be reviewed and will either be automatically posted >> to the list or you will be notified that it has been rejected and why. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I was hesitant about posting this due to it not being from Georgia, but yes they all went through the rough roads and hard conditions. And I'm sure that many had a lot harder time that this train had. I thought it was interesting about the ferry operators and their scams that they would pull, I wonder also just how many never completed their journey due to the ferry operators and them being robbed. I'm still not sure and this I need to research more on the trails, why did they take this trail and not drop down more into GA. and go more of a southern route. I don't know about the landscape of TN. but AR, or I should say the Northern part of AR. and Southern part of Mo. is rock, and lord do I mean rock. I will never understand how they could have ever tried to raise anything in this part of the country. It's fine for cattle grazing, but to try and dig is next to impossible. I suspect that they used the trail of tears route for this journey, I do know that part of the march went through Boone Co. AR, and less than 1/4 mile from where I live, and it would be a direct line over to Tahlequah OK. It is beautiful country but would be awfully hard to try and make a living on the land. I also had at one time a Diary that left Northern Mo. in the 1870s and made the trip to Texas, I lost this one when I had my first crash over 8 years ago. The train had to turn around and return to Mo. due to them being attacked and many members of the train being killed by the Indians. Sure sorry that I don't have it any longer, it was a great Diary. Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Hester" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] List Mom!!!! RE: Diary > This is such a wonderful opportunity to get to read this > diary. All our ancestors who traveled from Georgia to > all points west went through the same kind of travel > except some were not nearly as glamourous. > I live in Conecuh County, AL near the Butler County Line and our > ancestors who settled in these parts were > mainly settlers in Georgia before coming here. The land > was unsettled and frightning with "militant" Indians looking for revenge > and in some cases killing whole families. > Absolutely no one had better than wagons, mules and > horses for travel but many had worse . Many traveled > Indian paths by foot. They rolled their belongings by barrels and carried > their sick on stretchers made of poles > and skins. > We must give our ancestors credit for the hardships gone > through to make this country great. > Thanks, Mom, for allowing this first issue and I do look > forward to more. __Ruth [email protected] > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henry Holloway" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:59 AM > Subject: [GEORGIA] List Mom!!!! RE: Diary > > >> Could you give Anne a little help? >> Thanks >> Hank >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On >> Behalf Of Anne Brown >> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:34 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Diary >> >> >> If you are sending it as an attachment, it will not be allowed on the >> list. >> If it is just too long, maybe you can break it up into smaller portions. >> I >> am not a list manager, so I am just guessing about this. Anne Brown FL >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "brenda" <[email protected]> >> To: "Georgia Roots" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 9:25 PM >> Subject: [GEORGIA] Diary >> >> >>>I tied to post the Diary but I don't think it will be allowed, this is >>>the >>>message that I received back. >>> >>> Message body is too big: 137452 bytes with a limit of 40 KB >>> >>> Your message will be reviewed and will either be automatically posted >>> to the list or you will be notified that it has been rejected and why. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >