----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Simmons" <dave@hcis.net> To: <KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:49 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [KILGORE] email > Nell, > > Hi, I got you on the Kilgore list. > > Linda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nell Blumel" <nblumel@attglobal.net> > To: <KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:24 AM > Subject: [KILGORE] email > > > > Have I been removed from the list? I have not been getting Kilgore email > > lately. > > > > Nell > > > > > > ==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== > > Our Kilgore List archives may be searched at > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > >

Have I been removed from the list? I have not been getting Kilgore email lately. Nell

Donna, Yes I had switched email providers because hotmail kept bouncing my mail back to me. It's good to be back and I will try to re-subscribe. But on the letter regarding the Joseph Killgore book, maybe I worded that wrong. Roy E. Killgore of California, wrote the book. He is a cousin of my mothers' and I will get his address from her sometime this weekend. I chose the Pax email site so that I wouldn't get the junk email. It is family friendly. Again it's good to be back on board. Love Sheryl ===== Original Message From KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com ===== >Hi Roy; > >I know you didn't unsubscribe -- SO did you change your email address when >you moved, or did your server go out of business? There is something not >right here so try to subscribe and see what happens. > >If that doesn't work email gkilgore@primenet.com and ask to subscribe to our >clan (KILGORE-L@rootsweb. com) The reason for that remark is, there are more >than one KILGORE rootsweb. Gail is my niece, and she can tell you how to get >back on again. At one time I was bounced and had a heck of a time to get back >on, also one of our great Kilgore ladies had the same misfortune and it took >her ages to be one of us again! We cannot lose our great ones that we always >turn to. > >Welcome back Sheryl, glad to hear from you again. I did not know your Mother >wrote the book, and I am sure glad to find out. Now, would you please email >me and let me know how I can purchase the Joseph Kilgore book? > >Donna > > >==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== >Introduce a person to a very frustrating hobby, >Genealogy, and invite them to join our board!

Hi Roy; I know you didn't unsubscribe -- SO did you change your email address when you moved, or did your server go out of business? There is something not right here so try to subscribe and see what happens. If that doesn't work email gkilgore@primenet.com and ask to subscribe to our clan (KILGORE-L@rootsweb. com) The reason for that remark is, there are more than one KILGORE rootsweb. Gail is my niece, and she can tell you how to get back on again. At one time I was bounced and had a heck of a time to get back on, also one of our great Kilgore ladies had the same misfortune and it took her ages to be one of us again! We cannot lose our great ones that we always turn to. Welcome back Sheryl, glad to hear from you again. I did not know your Mother wrote the book, and I am sure glad to find out. Now, would you please email me and let me know how I can purchase the Joseph Kilgore book? Donna

Hi Sheryl! Thanks for asking for me. Yes, I'm at Park Street every Friday to teach a noontime Bible study to the business community. I'm at a meeting at the Hynes Convention Center today and tomorrow, which is why this week's study has been postponed. Let me know when you're going to be there next, and I'll clear the calendar to meet you. You'll be the first Kilgore board member to have laid eyes on me, and you can then tell the crowd I really do exist. By the way, if any of you are Charles Colson fans, you can hear two radio programs I wrote for him on his Breakpoint radio commentary. They're scheduled for January 30 and 31, but might get bumped by current event changes. Once he does them on radio, they get posted to his website and can be heard or read there. If any of you are interested, email me privately and I'll post the website where you can find out when the programs are on in your area. And if you want to hear my voice (don't know why you would, but you might just wonder what the Purple Boxer Shorts king might sound like) you can go to www.decisiontoday.org, then click archives, then click January 9 and the first interview on the Billy Graham radio program features the only sane, sedate, normal Kilgore on this board. (I realize this all sounds less than humble, and I apologize for that. Still, I like family knowing what's happening in my world, so hope you take it for that and not "getting too big for my britches". My wife takes care to make certain that doesn't happen. ) Warm regards from the king of serenity and sanity, Randy

Hello Cousins; Carrie Burnham Kilgore is from my line of Kilgore's (the New England) she was the 2nd wife of Damon Y. Kilgore (who was my gr gr grandfather) if there is anyone else that is related to this line , please let me know since i've been so out of touch with this board that I don't know of the Yankee Kilgore that have joined. Have a grateful day! Love Sheryl >===== Original Message From KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com ===== >I know, I know. It's rare these days for me to contribute to the genealogy >side of our list, but while researching for my book, I stumbled across the >mention of a Kilgore who might fit into somebody's jigsaw puzzle: Carolyn >Burnham Kilgore, first woman law student admitted to the Penn. One line of >info, can be found at: > >http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/women/chron3.html > >Hope it helps someone out there. > >Warm regards, >Randy > > >==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== >The Kilgore Logbook can be viewed from the >Kilgore ARCHIVES at the address of http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Hello Cousins; I am a descendent of Joseph Killgore and the author of this book is my mother's (Arline Kilgore Twombly) cousin Roy E. Killgore from California; I'll be talking with my mother this weekend and I will get the address for you; I have been away from my computer for awhile, (well, actually I had to do real w-o-r-k on mine. Randy, I was at the Park Street Church last night for a meeting and asked for you, and was told that you are usually there on Friday, but not this Friday. Do I have the correct info? It's so good to be back on this board and I look forward to spending more time reading and writing to it. God Bless you all and my prayers are with all of you. Have a grateful day! Love Sheryl (back in Massachusetts) >===== Original Message From KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com ===== >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Roy Killgore" <r_killgore@yahoo.com> >To: <KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:41 AM >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [KILGORE] R/E Roy Killgore > > >> I heard about this book from the internet, and when i >> asked about it i didn't recieve an answer. So i guess >> that leves us guesing. >> >> Yes we are out of the heat in vegas and now we have >> that other stuff (SNOW). Grand kids are great. >> >> Roy >> --- Dknova@aol.com wrote: >> > Hi Roy from Twin Falls, ID. >> > >> > I think I have copied your new address wrong as it >> > bounced back to me. >> > >> > I think you had mentioned in one of your posts that >> > you were either reading, >> > or trying to purchase a book concerning Joseph >> > Kilgore. If that is true, I >> > would sure appreciate the name of the book and to >> > where I could purchase it >> > for reference. >> > >> > I hope you and your wife are coming along great in >> > ID, and also your family. >> > I sure bet the grandchildren love having Grandma and >> > Grandpa close to them! >> > >> > Cousin; >> > Donna >> > >> > >> > ==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== >> > PLEASE NOTE: Addressing your mail to the list AND >> > to a current subscriber results in that person >> > receiving >> > 2 copies of your message. >> > >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >> http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ >> >> > > >==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== >PLEASE NOTE: Addressing your mail to the list AND >to a current subscriber results in that person receiving >2 copies of your message.

Accounts at msn.com are bouncing too. Gail Meÿer Kilgore Casa Grande, AZ

This is a forwarded message... and I might add that in the last couple of days a lot of emails have bounced on this site. Especially those with a juno.com addy. Gail ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Zeigler" <lzei@tjc.tyler.cc.tx.us> To: <KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com>; <kilgore-pa-l-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 11:24 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} History of Kilgore Texas > The information below has been graciously collected and supplied by Jim Kilgore in Long Beach. We occasionally have questions about this East Texas town; Jim answers them fully. > > I live 31 miles from Kilgore, Texas, so if anyone has questions about how to get there, I will be happy to answer those. > > I KNOW NO MORE about the town than is here except where to eat barbecue and some other local color. I am NOT DESCENDED from this Kilgore line, but I, too, have never known a rich Kilgore except rich in family, friendship and connections to interesting, mostly hardworking, colorful people. > > Linda Kilgore Zeigler in Tyler, Texas, behind the Pine Curtain. > > Here's KILGORE, TEXAS by Jim > > I noticed a couple of exchanges on the Kilgore listserve in the past > few months. I thought most people were clear on which Kilgore is > the town's namesake, but I'd appreciate it if you could forward the > following to the list (have tried to subscribe myself two or three > times, > but somehow I never seem to get onto it.) > > The town of Kilgore grew up near the settlement of (New) Danville > in what was originally Rusk Cty (now Gregg Cty) as the railroad > was built in 1870-1872. Construction was interrupted for a while, > making a spot a few miles outside of town the rail terminus for a short > period. The station remained once building resumed and the place > was named after a local state court judge named Constantine Buckley > ("Buck") Kilgore (1835-1897), who had come to Texas as a teenager > with his parents (Willis Kilgore 1804-1861 and Isabella Lindsay > Kilgore 1806-1878.) > > C.B. Kilgore had been in the Civil War and his career would later > include election to the Texas Senate, three terms in the U.S. House > of Representatives and a federal judgeship. (For a website with links > to C. B. Kilgore's political biography, go to: > http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/VZ.html#RB313FQ42 > The U.S. House also keeps biographies, but my link may be out of date: > http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000173). > CB first settled in Van Zandt Cty, TX after returning from Washington > and then served on the federal bench in Oklahoma until his death. > (grave marker listings for CBK, one son - Slade Barnett - and two > daughters > Eula and Lula: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txvanzan/wrose4.htm) > I have no dates for deaths of his wife Frances Barnett Kilgore and > another > son (Frankie - b. 1865) > > "Buck" was one of twelve children*, ten of whom lived to adulthood > and all but two of which were born in Newnan Georgia (the youngest, > two boys born in the Danville area.) Both his parents were born in > north > Georgia (Willis in Clarke Cty and Isabella in Jackson Cty) and > Isabella's parents had come to GA from Abbeville, SC sometime around > 1800 +/- about five years. Willis's parents are the subject of much > conjecture and no clear documentation, so far as I know. > > In the 1880s, all living family members I am aware of had moved out of > the Kilgore area, many to Longview, so that by the time oil was > discovered > ~40 years later, all Kilgore title to any of the then-richest oil field > in the > world was long-since sold. (I have yet to meet a rich Kilgore.) Some > children of CB's brother John Thomas (1841-1885) settled in Wood > Cty (Quitman and Alba), including John Thomas Jr. and Lillie Isabella > Kilgore Leath, who published newspapers. Lillie had accompanied CB > to Washington and was herself active in politics, holding countywide > party office before she was allowed to vote in federal elections. > > * This is by no means the only Kilgore line in east Texas, but for > anyone > looking for ties to CB and his family, here are his generation's vitals: > > Cynthia (b 1827 died in infancy) > Mary E. (1829-1873) > Andrew J. (1830-1866) > William Frank (1832-?) > C.Buckley (1835-1989) > Ann H. (1837-1863) > Willis Harralson** (1839-1906) > John Thomas (1841-1985) > Isabella June (1843-1857) > Rebecca Addie (1845-1873) > James Vanhook (1847-1907) > Virgil Hugh (1851-1888) > > To my knowledge, all lived in east Texas until they died. I would be > very happy to learn more and to pass along what I have learned > through contact with descendants of several other branches of the > family. > > **Occaisionally, CB's father Willis has been called "Willis Harralson". > I suspect this comes from confusing son's and father's names, since a > family bible begun by Willis and Isabella gives WIllis the father no > middle > name, and because a genealogy compiled in 1940 by Willis Buckley Kilgore > > (son of Willis Harralson, grandson of Willis and Isabella) did not > add a "Jr" after WB's own father's name. > > Jim Kilgore <jkilgore@charter.net> > Long Beach, CA > > >

FORWARDED MESSAGE, PLEASE RESPOND TO THE AUTHOR OF THE MESSAGE!! Gail ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melvin Hopkins" <mhopk@bayou.com> To: <KILGORE-admin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: Elizabeth Kilgore of Adams and Wilkerson county Mississippi As I am not a list member, maybe you can help me. Elizabeth Kilgore married Solomon Hopkins in Wilkerson County on 4-7-1813. I am trying to find her maiden name. She was born about 1771 in South Carolina and she and Solomon both had children from previous marriages. From this info from your list posted in 1998 she may have been married to Benjamin. Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:55:17 EDT From: <Mbap1029@aol.com> To: KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <822b541a.35d514b7@aol.com> Subject: Various Kilgore/Kilgore Info Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mississippi Court Records [p.4] ADAMS COUNTY 1802-- page 16 Gaillaral, Isaac. July 3, 1811. August, 1811. Legatees: children of Elizabeth Kilgore (wife of Benj.); god-dau. Nancy Ellis; numerous nieces and nephews. Plantation of 1300 acres not to go out of the family. Exrs: Benjamin Farrar and John Taylor. Wit: Augustus A. Grieve, Kerbe Goolshe If anyone has any information about her, her children, who she was married to or where they came from and when he died I would appreciate it. I know that she lived beyond the 1850 census and had at least one child with Solomon Hopkins. Thanks for any help. Melvin Hopkins mhopk@Bayou.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Killgore" <r_killgore@yahoo.com> To: <KILGORE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:41 AM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [KILGORE] R/E Roy Killgore > I heard about this book from the internet, and when i > asked about it i didn't recieve an answer. So i guess > that leves us guesing. > > Yes we are out of the heat in vegas and now we have > that other stuff (SNOW). Grand kids are great. > > Roy > --- Dknova@aol.com wrote: > > Hi Roy from Twin Falls, ID. > > > > I think I have copied your new address wrong as it > > bounced back to me. > > > > I think you had mentioned in one of your posts that > > you were either reading, > > or trying to purchase a book concerning Joseph > > Kilgore. If that is true, I > > would sure appreciate the name of the book and to > > where I could purchase it > > for reference. > > > > I hope you and your wife are coming along great in > > ID, and also your family. > > I sure bet the grandchildren love having Grandma and > > Grandpa close to them! > > > > Cousin; > > Donna > > > > > > ==== KILGORE Mailing List ==== > > PLEASE NOTE: Addressing your mail to the list AND > > to a current subscriber results in that person > > receiving > > 2 copies of your message. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > >

Jerry, The Orrin that you subbed to the list, bounced off right away. Are you sure that you had the right email address? Gail Meÿer Kilgore Casa Grande, AZ

Hi Roy from Twin Falls, ID. I think I have copied your new address wrong as it bounced back to me. I think you had mentioned in one of your posts that you were either reading, or trying to purchase a book concerning Joseph Kilgore. If that is true, I would sure appreciate the name of the book and to where I could purchase it for reference. I hope you and your wife are coming along great in ID, and also your family. I sure bet the grandchildren love having Grandma and Grandpa close to them! Cousin; Donna

Hello To All my Kilgore Family, I am one of the quiet cousins due to keeping my two young ones in line, but I keep up with all the posts. God Bless to all who are not well or having a difficult time. I have not heard from anyone -- so I am not sure if all are busy like myself or else I am having problems. I have been at a dead end for awhile trying to find out my grandfather, James Lloyd Kilgore's, first wife whom he married in Florida. He married a "Willa" in January of 1915 in Miami Fl. and died 6 months later June 1915. Is there anyone out on this board that could help? Cathy Kilgore Gordon iamcatz@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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My mail server went down last week and I have not been getting my email. The server has been fixed but a lot of messages seemed to have gone astray. Then I had a pop lock on my email as when it started filtering in my mail box was overloaded so to remove the pop lock they had to delete a lot of my messages. If you were emailing me or asking questions, more than likely I did not receive them message. If you want you can resent your message to me. Sorry about all this, 'twas not my fault... Gail Meÿer Kilgore Casa Grande, AZ

Oops. As I read further down the page, there's more info on this Kilgore on that page. Check out the data for years 1881 and 1883. Warm regards, Randy

I know, I know. It's rare these days for me to contribute to the genealogy side of our list, but while researching for my book, I stumbled across the mention of a Kilgore who might fit into somebody's jigsaw puzzle: Carolyn Burnham Kilgore, first woman law student admitted to the Penn. One line of info, can be found at: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/women/chron3.html Hope it helps someone out there. Warm regards, Randy

Thanks, Jerry, for an interesting read on the forts. Sorry to hear you've been in the hospital and glad to know that you're on the mend. We miss your history and genealogy mails on this list, so let us hear from you more often when you feel like it. Ora Jane

Hi to all my cousins, Recently one of our cousins asked about the dates of Fort Robinson and Fort Patrick Henry on the Long Island of the Holston. I am just now beginning to feel a little better from an illness that had me in the hospital a couple of days. Although I have been reading the discussions, I had not felt "up to snuff" enough to reply until now. Here is a lengthy post on something written by a local historian Muriel Spoden on Fort Robinson, Fort Patrick Henry and the Long Island of the Holston. It gives the descriptions of the fort as well as some names of the early settlers here in what is now Sullivan County, TN. Excerpt: During the French and Indian War the Cherokees were closely allied with the British, and Fort Loudoun, the first British fort erected on Tennessee soil, was constructed by South Carolina provincial troops to protect the Cherokees from the French influence and to insure the Carolina Indian trade. By 1760, however, the amicable relations of the British and the Cherokees strained to the breaking point due to a series of Cherokee murders by white men. Powerful Cherokee chiefs, Connecorte, Oconostota, Attacullaculla and Ostenaco kept the peace and demanded punishment for these outrages. When their attempts proved fruitless, the Cherokees sought reprisals which reached extreme brutality. They massacred the Fort Loudoun garrison during the winter of 1760 and destroyed the fort. South Carolina appealed to Virginia for aid in bringing the Cherokees to the peace table and Long Island was chosen as the launching point for the campaign. Colonel William Byrd III was the first commander of the large expedition but resigned complaining that six hundred men was insufficient for such a perilous operation. Colonel Adam Stephen, a most competent man, was then assigned the command. He immediately appointed Major Andrew Lewis to supervise the construction of a wagon road from present-day Chilhowie, Virginia to the Long Island of the Holston. On July 16, 1761, Mayor Lewis and three companies began cutting the road through the primeval forest. This is the oldest road in Tennessee and as a western frontier road was preceded only by the road which General Braddock built to western Pennsylvania in 1754 and 1755. The Island Road was completed in September and Stephen's militia soon marched down it to a spot opposite the eastern end of the Long Island. Here they erected Fort Robinson, the second British fort built on Tennessee soil. The fort was "situated on a beautiful level, and was built up on a large plan, with proper bastions, and walls thick enough to stop the force of a small cannon shot. The gates were spiked with large nails, so that the wood was all covered. Cannons were mounted on its bastions and within the enclosure were houses used for storing food and arms. The six hundred Virginians in the fort were soon joined by four hundred North Carolina troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Waddell. This imposing force stood poised to march against the Cherokees but the Indians wisely decided to treat for peace. Four hundred Cherokees arrived at the Long Island where they made camp in November, 1761. Chief Standing Turkey sent a speech to the British in which the chief expressed his sorrow for the war and vowed, "the Hatchett that has been so long at War is now buried under the ground, never to be seen by the English again." Thus hostilities with the Cherokees ceased, and the Long Island of the Holston was witness to peace for almost fifteen years. After this Fort Robinson Treaty was concluded, Colonel Waddells regiment returned to North Carolina and all but one company of Virginia's regiment were mustered out of service. Captain John McNeill's company stayed for a short time to garrison the fort. The beauty and fertility of the Holston Valley in this region induced some of the soldiers to remain and build a small settlement. These early settlers were John Sawyer, John Anderson, Robert Christian, William Anderson, John McNair, Nathan Page and Gilbert Christian. During the winter of 1761-2 they built cabins and made numerous improvements on Reedy Creek about a mile above its junction with the Holston River opposite the Long Island. Early in 1762 they planted corn, and had they remained they would have been the first permanent settlers on Tennessee soil. By late summer of 1762, they discovered, much to their disappointment, that their settlement was within Edmund Pendleton's land grant and they were obliged to abandon their claims and return to the Valley of Virginia. Gilbert Christian, however, was determined to one day return. He returned to explore the lower Holston region in the autumn of 1762 and again in 1769. >From ancient times the Long Island was a stopping place on the Great Indian Warrior Path, the major pathway to the Southwest, which later became the Great Stage Road. With the restoration of peace on the frontier and the convenience of the Island Road, the Long Island became a favorite spot for trading with the Cherokees, especially since the Indians had been reduced to a state of extreme distress by the late war and were consequently in a poor bargaining position which enabled the traders to gain handsome profits. The Long Island was also a frequent stopping place for traders on their way to the Cherokees Overhill Towns along the Little Tennessee and Hiwasse rivers. The Long Island served as a "jumping off point" for adventurers and settlers heading west and northwest. During the French-Indian War lord Dunmore ordered the construction of forts all along the frontier. Consequently, in 1773 and 1774, a network of forts was erected or refurbished in the lower Holston region. There were nine known forts in the western- most settlements within the present-day boundaries of Sullivan County which included the Long Island. Evan Shelby's Fort was a large stockade built at the site of present-day Bristol. Jacob Womack's Fort and the Little Fort were on the Watauga Road at Shoate's Ford, now Bluff City, King's Mill Fort, commanded by Gilbert Christian, was on the North Fork of Reedy Creek beside Reedy Creek Road and it served as a depot for supplies. Three forts on the Island Road were Anthony Bledsoe's, near Sapling Grove, now Bristol, Moses Looney's Fort and Eaton's Fort, about six miles east of the Long Island. The forts closest to the long Island were southwest of Eaton's Fort on the Plantations of Thomas Ramsey and Bryce Russell. Sr . The half-breed Mingo Indian, Chief logan brought terror to the Reedy Creek settlement when his band of warriors sought white blood indiscriminately. On September 24, 1774 he massacred the John Roberts family while lieutenant Christian, commander of nearby King's Mill Fort, was away. As the news of the massacre spread, the families all along the lower Holston fled to the forts, and urgent appeals were sent for aid. Captains Daniel Boone, Daniel Smith, James Thompson and William Cocke together with what men they could collect were sent to defend the forts and scout the forest for marauding Indians. On October 4, Colonel Campbell ordered some of these rangers to operate from the Long Island of the Holston. By August 1st, virtually all the people in Fincastle County remained gathered in small forts while their men marched in Captain Evan Shelby's company to fight in the Battle of Point Pleasant. By August 1, 1776 Colonel William Christian was making preparations for the Cherokee Campaign against the Overhill Towns. There was "no doubt of raising the number required" for Christian's expedition because the frontiersmen, confident with victory at Long Island Flats, "were greatly exasperated against the Savages and anxious for Revenge." Captains Evan Shelby and Thomas Madison, and Lieutenant James McGavock were appointed to supply the arm with provisions. Word arrived on August 9 that "two exceedingly fine Companies of Riflemen at Watauga" were "willing to enter the service of Virginia, either to range the Frontiers, or to go on the Expedition." Colonel Preston wrote the Virginia Council for permission to place these North Carolinians on the payroll of the Virginia militia. Before the expedition could be undertaken, a large fort, formidable enough to protect the frontier, had to be erected. Colonel Christian assigned Lieutenant Colonel William Russell the command of the Fincastle Rangers, who were to erect the fort at the Long Island. Russell gathered supplies, loaded wagons with battle and construction gear, and led his men over the Island Road to build Fort Patrick Henry. On arriving at the Long Island, Colonel Russell selected an area in a field by several springs opposite the eastern end of the Long Island to erect the fort. The spot was, on or near the same location that Fort Robinson had been built in 1761. On this site the new imposing fort was constructed. Its bastions rose high over the Holston River about 200 yards below the upper east end of the Long Island, standing where the bank of the wide river was very high and where the river channel was quite deep. The stockade enclosing three acres of ground, about a hundred yards square, had three sides of the fort enclosed, the fourth side being the river bank, which was considered "almost impregnable." The Walls had bastions at every corner, and in the center of the enclosure stood log cabins for military stores, and a home for the commander. Several small springs broke out of the river bank by the fort, although the river itself was their main source of water. Fort Patrick Henry, named in honor of Virginia's first governor, was the largest fort west of the mountains. By September 5 Captain Joseph Martin of Pittsylvania County, Virginia had marched his men to Eaton's Fort where they camped until the erection of Fort Patrick Henry was completed. On September 22, the fort was ready for Colonel Russell's rangers, including a company from Black's Fort (Abingdon, Virginia) to guard it while Colonel Christian ordered the officers under his command to march their men "with all possible dispatch" to the "Big Island on Holston River in Fincastle Company, the Place of General Rendezvous," in preparation for the coming Cherokee campaign in the area of what is now Knoxville, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. I hope this helps clear up the dates and gives some information on the layout of the area around what is now Kingsport, TN. Until later, good hunting, Jerry Penley in Kingsport, TN. www.Penjaccphoto.com