Hello Everyone, On the Greene Co Tennessee list, there was just a question regarding information on wagon trains to Missouri in the 1870s. I posted the email below, which speaks for itself and am curious about any of your thoughts on whether in 1883 travel from East Tennessee to SW Missouri would have been by wagon train or railroad (if affordable). Since there are many Greene Co TN, and others from that corner of Tennessee, who ended up in SW Missouri, I am also interested if any of you have any firm information (like a teenage girl who wrote a diary, etc.) on the trip west, and the route in particular. A separate thought (Ross listen up) would be whether or not travel from Amelia Co VA (near Richmond) to Lawrence/Barry Co in 1837/8 would/might have gone through Giles County TN, which is on the southern border, near Lincoln Co, where Jack's McGehees were, as well as probably my Birds (Lawrence Co TN), before migration to Missouri. I ask this because I've come into contact with a Baugh cousin, descendant of our Archibald Bolling Baugh's first cousin, once removed, Thomas Martin Baugh, who (not only named a son Archibald Bolling Baugh), but also nad a daughter Rebecca who married a Dempsey WILLIAMSON. Then one of our Lawrence Co "Boland Baw's" daughters Sarah marries a Leonard Williamson, who after her death marries Sarah's brother, Andrew Jackson Baugh's widow. (Hope I got that right). FYI, Ross, she's sending me her Dempsey Williamson ancestry. I guess I'm wondering if our AB Baugh stopped in to see cousins and picked up some Williamsons along the way. Well, this is too many questions as always , Sorry....Here is my post. My best, Janet (Baugh) Hunter Subj: Re: [TNGREENE] 1870/80s Wagon Train or Railroad?? Date: 5/29/2002 2:11:57 PM Eastern Standard Time From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hello Everyone, This question interests me as well. I have several collateral lines that travelled from Greene Co to the Missouri Ozarks from 1850s to 1880s.... In 1883, my great great grandmother Elizabeth Fortner Marshall (wife of Thomas Marshall, s/o Abram & Martha Doan Marshill) took the Sexton, Jones, DeFord and Marshall families of her three daughters and one son and joined three of her Fortner brothers, Cotter in-laws and a gang of other TN Greene Countians, in Lawrence County Missouri area. My mother believes that they probably took a train a good part of the way, perhaps all the way to Springfield Missouri. I am curious about any of your thoughts on whether she is accurate. When would travel by railroad have become a real option from Greene County to points west? Thanks in advance. Janet Hunter