In 1780 the boundary line between Kentucky and Tennesee was run by Dr.Thomas Walker and Daniel Smith of Virginia, and a party of surveyors who made the first good map of the Cumberland River and its tributaries. This seems to have stimulated migration by flat boat down this river. About this same time there was a land boom in Tennessee, especially in the vicinity of Nashville. Settlers from North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina came down the river in flat boats in great numbers. In 1799 one boat of twelve North Carolina men, captained by Abraham Boyd, landed at Canton, Christian (Trigg) County. In the party were my gggg grandfather Basil Holland and, probably, his brother Frederick. They were from Bertie County, NC. Basil Holland's son, Whitmell Holland, married Tensy Alexander 29 Dec 1817 in Christian County. The 1820 census shows them in Trigg, with 2 sons under 10. One of them was a new-born, G.Whitmell. On 1 Jan 1840, G.Whitmell, a farmer, married Nancy Burkley in Trigg. Ten years later the census shows them with 3 children, including Mary E. age 10, Claiborne, 6, and Margaret V., 4. G.Whitmell was mustered into the Kentucky Militia in 1861 at Canton. Serving in the 2nd Ky Mounted Infantry CSA , he had a colorful military career. He was taken prisoner when Gen. Grant captured Ft.Donelson TN in 1862; developed pneumonia while prisoner in Camp Douglass IL; was shipped to Vicksburg MS and exchanged for Union prisoners. He then fought at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge before his unit was defeated at Dalton GA on 31 Aug 1864. The next day Atlanta fell to Sherman. Mary E. Holland married Green W. Weatherford on 21 Oct 1863. The couple had four children. One of them, Edward Gray, born 22 Oct 1873 was my grandfather. He married Lena Langston and they had four girls, including Lorena Mae b 9 Oct 1897. Green W.died ca 1885. In her later years Mary E. lived with her son Edward Gray and his family in Paducah KY. Lorena Mae Weatherford married my father Edwin H.Mammen b 5 Aug 1896 d 10 Dec 1988 on 10 Aug 1918. They had a daughter, Barbara Mammen Fisher, and me. Lorena is now in her 102nd year. I would like to hear from anyone related to any of the persons named above. I am also trying to learn of burial site of Green W.Weatherford. Edwin H. Mammen, Jr.