Several also migrated from KY and on to Iowa. They seemed to travel in families.

Yes -- many families in Browns Valley were related by marriages which happened in Kentucky. I like to look at old highway maps (as old as highway maps can get, anyway) to see the likely travel routes between here and there. Monroe County (GenWeb) has a migrations section, listing family names, place (or places) where they previously lived, and places they moved to. It looks like a lot of work to maintain. Fulwiders in Rockbridge and Botetourt Counties in Virginia moved to Putnam, Fountain, Parke, Boone and Montgomery counties, locating near cousins or brothers first, then moving a little farther afield. Following the web of Fulwider relationships, especially if you include connections like having the Rev. Cornelius Airhart (his mother was a Fulwider cousin) perform important services, can produce a fascinating web. My grandfather's generation (he was born in 1870) still were aware of the cousin-connections in the Fulwider families. They've gotten harder and harder to follow. And I can't leave out the next Fulwider migrations, to Illinois and to South Dakota (the Dakota territory, really, before statehood). Shelleys like Noah (married to Sarah Stewart of Montgomery County) moved to Nebraska, and were followed by their younger brothers, like my gr-grandfather George. His wife, Martha Hudson Shelley, was followed by at least one Hudson brother. There was quite a cluster of old friends, family members, and former neighbors in Bennet, NE, in Palmyra, in Otoe CountyNE. Some, like George and Martha, returned to Montgomery County (to Waynetown, right, Karen?) and others are still there with their descendants. The migrations are a lovely tapestry of threads connecting people in different states to those who stayed behind, and to those who moved on. Kathy > From: iwagoner@htb.net > To: inmontgo@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:48:01 -0600 > Subject: [InMontgo] Kentucky > > Several also migrated from KY and on to Iowa. > They seemed to travel in families. > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message