This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STEVENS DEAR CLARK MILES BRINSON MULLICAN BURNHAM GRANTHAM FLOYD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XJB.2ACE/557.2.2.2 Message Board Post: Well I must have messed up and posted my reply to this thread backchannel to somebody oops. I meant it for the whole forum so here tis copied/pasted. +++++++++ Put me on your list too. I'm from Jackson but did a lot of growing up around Star and remember a little bit of Star and area during the 1950-60's. My garndparents were the Dears living about 3 miles south of Star on waht is now callled Rock Wood Rd. Back then probably called Star/Braxton or Star/Harrisville Rd. To me it was Granddaddy's Road. They lived about a mile south of the Rock House. The old house, built about 1900, still stands but........... My mother, class of 34, and her siblings finished high school at the old Star School which still stands and is unoccupied now as far as I know. Micael, you may have already, you might round up more contributors to your pictoral book if you post your message on the sevearl surname lists and forums of the old names of the Star area. Dear, Ross, Garrett, Mangum, Loflin, etc, etc etc just to name a few. Many class group pictures of the old school should be out there and just needs flushing out. And btw, as we all know, Star was called Cherry before becoming know as Star. Connie may be able to elaborate on the name change. ++++++++++++ back to real time: Mike, since I posted the above, it looks like your Star idea is gonna take off. I wish I had photos to contribute but none except about a gillion of folks posing in the front yard of the old house and that was three miles from Star. You mention Piney Woods and Braxton so if including surrounding olden communities to Star, throw in Dry Creek/Thomasville. I have two Stevens aunts buried there married Garrtet and Myers. Mountain Creek aka King and Rexford. Talking of Piney Woods, my mother, born 1913, talked about my grandfather, Will Dear, loading all the family up in a mule and wagon and going to Piney Woods for singings or singing programs put on by the students. My mother said granddady and Dr Jones, the master, were good friends. Of course everybody within a mile of the school was probably good friends with Dr. Jones. And not to get to off topic but Dianne mentioned Mt Creek,,Mt Creek Baptist was and still is very photogenic for your pictoral, and Rexford, Holy Grove, Dry Creek, Piney Woods and on and on and on. Depending how much Star lore and stories you want, I know two senior Dears still very sharp that may have lots to add. Speaking of the G&SI, my aunt, in her 80's who still has the old house mentioned above recalls as a child of riding the passenger train from Star to Jackson to have her tonsils taken out. And my granddady working as a night watchman in Star for the RR for a dollar a day,,,of course probably late fall after the crops were in. I've heard about the old movie theatre that was across the road from old Mangums store,,up near the rr tracks. I'll have to get more info about that lore. I'd love to see some old pics of the old Magum store and Mahaffys store in Braxton. Does anybody remeber the rock house?? Sorry about the rambling. Jerry Stevens Jackson