I'm in the middle of a wonderful dream right now. I'm sitting in a big rocker on the front porch of the "Old Genealogist Home". It's a crisp winter morning so I'm wrapped in my MamMaw's quilt. I've got a cup of my PawPaw's stout coffee. Coming across the river on his ferry is my gg-granddaddy, John P Meredith, along with his ferry hand and son Albert Dillard Meredith. John and Albert are singing wonderful Irish songs. I know this because my granddaddy, William Barnell Meredith, could sing "Danny Boy' and make you weep. People who grew up with my daddy, Robert Phillip Meredith, have told me they heard it themselves. By the time I was old enough to hear or remember, my granddaddy had lost his voice to throat cancer. But in my dream they're all talking and singing. Now you see, John Meredith, was born in Trigg County somewhere between 1817 & 1830. He must not have communicated himself to the census takers very well since they have him listed as 36 on the 1860 Trigg Census, 40 on the 1870 Trigg census and 63 on the 1880 Trigg Census. John and his lovely wife, Martha Jane Johnson who was born in Ky around 1835, had all there children in Trigg county. There was about 6 of them younguns. First there was S.V. - a boy born around 1850. Midda A came next. She was born around 1852. John T. arrived to the Trigg area in 1856. He was followed by James M in 1858. Now my ggranddaddy was born April 4th 1862 and a handsome devil he was or so I'm told. Faella was the last of the known children. She was born around 1868. But on the 1880 census they have her spot on the form filled in as R.N.P. Now my ggranddaddy, Albert Dillard, decided he'd move around a little bit. In 1900 him and his beautiful bride, Isabella Margaret Dunaway, and their family stayed a bit in Stewart County TN since it wasn't too far from the home folks. They had a whole passel of youguns to keep up with. There was Dora, Harry, Nancy, Cenie, William Barnell, Sally, Margaret, Grace, Frederick, and Francis Edward. Well, back to my dream. Like I said, I'm snuggled all up on the porch watching the ferry with all my kinfolk coming to visit. Inside by the big fire in the library room, my fellow researchers are relaxing reading their favorite "History of ..." books. By their side in their notebooks full of family group sheets. Jan is cooking up a recipe from that little book of her grandmothers. Life is so goooooood!! Till next time, Barb in Georgia