This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EMB.2ACE/568.3 Message Board Post: I was born and grew up in the middle of this swamp, just a few miles from the town called wardell. It was called nigger wool swamp because of the thick moss that covered everything. When i grew up there it was refered to as flag land and just a few cypress and cotton wood trees remained. It was all farm land.