The comments about ferries crossing the Ohio has stirred my interest. My great-grandfather, Elijah CLARK, b. 1853 in Grayson Co., KY, and son of John CLARK and Elizabeth McGREW, moved to Warrick Co., IN, where he married my gr-grandmother, Martha Jean WILLIS. Family tradition says he came from Hawesville, KY. I have often wondered how he crossed the Ohio. Was there a ferry near Hawesville? Maybe to Rockport, IN? I am familiar with Cypress Beach, above Newburgh and immediately below Vanada Station. My mother and father went there in the '20s to a dance hall and when I was in college at Evansville, in the late '40s, my buddy and I, and our future wives, would go up there to picnic and barbecue in the early evening. It was the site of a high bluff, beneath which Cypress Creek entered the Ohio River - very scenic. We used rocks which had fallen from the bluff to make a barbecue pit above the beach. And, I seem to remember a concrete roadway leading into the water, probably the site of the old ferry landing. This has all changed now - the creek was diverted and now enters the Ohio about a mile up river. This was done to make way for the construction of a new, large dam, replacing old dam # 47 at Newburgh, On top of the high bluff, once the site of a beautiful home, there is now a lovely park and overlook for people to look down on the dam and to survey the river for quite a distance up and down stream. I will appreciate hearing more about the ferries. Cookie, a Hoosier in Florida << GreystokeB@aol.com >>

GreystokeB@aol.com wrote: > The comments about ferries crossing the Ohio has stirred my interest. My > great-grandfather, Elijah CLARK, b. 1853 in Grayson Co., KY, and son of John > CLARK and Elizabeth McGREW, moved to Warrick Co., IN, where he married my > gr-grandmother, Martha Jean WILLIS. Family tradition says he came from > Hawesville, KY. I have often wondered how he crossed the Ohio. Was there a > ferry near Hawesville? YES, THERE WAS A FERRY THAT RAN FROM HAWESVILLE TO > CANNELTON, [MANY COUPLES WENT ACROSS ON THE FERRY TO GET MARRIED AT THE COURT > HOUSE STEPS IN CANNELTON, INCLUDING MY PARENTS] WHERE THE BOB CUMMINGS BRIDGE IS > NOW Maybe to Rockport, IN? THERE ALSO WAS A FERRY THAT RAN FROM MACEO ,KY. TO > ROCKPORT, IN , [ AGAIN THR ROCKPORT COURT HOUSE WAS A MARRING PLACE FOR KY. > COUPLES] I WAS BORN/LIVE BETWEEN WHERE THOSE FERRYS WERE I am familiar with > Cypress > Beach, above Newburgh and immediately below Vanada Station. My mother and > father went there in the '20s to a dance hall and when I was in college at > Evansville, in the late '40s, my buddy and I, and our future wives, would go > up there to picnic and barbecue in the early evening. It was the site of a > high bluff, beneath which Cypress Creek entered the Ohio River - very scenic. > We used rocks which had fallen from the bluff to make a barbecue pit above > the beach. And, I seem to remember a concrete roadway leading into the > water, probably the site of the old ferry landing. This has all changed now > - the creek was diverted and now enters the Ohio about a mile up river. This > was done to make way for the construction of a new, large dam, replacing old > dam # 47 at Newburgh, On top of the high bluff, once the site of a > beautiful home, there is now a lovely park and overlook for people to look > down on the dam and to survey the river for quite a distance up and down > stream. I will appreciate hearing more about the ferries. > Cookie, a Hoosier in Florida > << GreystokeB@aol.com >> > > ==== KYDAVIES Mailing List ==== > Please CAPITALIZE all SURNAMES in your messages. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237