HI Barb, I can't help you... but I do love the story you tell.......got a good gift, ya do! Thanks. Cher ----- Original Message ----- From: john howard <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 7:21 AM Subject: [KYTRIGG] MEREDITH, JOHN P & son ALBERT > 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 >