There is a several mile long,narrow bottom along the Ohio River from w Rural, to w Boude's Ferry, that had one of the earliest concentrations of population. Very s e Franklin township; very sw Lewis Townsp . The land was owened by the Va Military District's 1st surveyor,John O'Bannon, and rented by him to others. It is ,roughly,where Ohio Rt 133 [Bullskin Trace of buffalo and Indians],and US rt 52 join at Rural, Ohio,which is yards west of where Bullskin Creek enters the Ohio. Being so distant from the county seats, and from the township's largest towns, it was little written about. O'Bannon had the Ky rights to a ferry there at the Bullskin Trace,and leased it ,I think,to John and Joe Logsdon,and Edward Salt,who lived on the Ky bank. Wm [?] Fee had the NW Territory rights to a ferry. At the eastern end of the long bottom was Boude's Ferry to 'the" town,Augusta,Bracken Co,Ky. The Bolender's and a Shinkle 1st lived at Boude's Ferry. This bottom was where people 'camped" while trying to find,and buy, permanet farms in the interior. Rev Gaddis wrote that in 1798, my Capt-Lt-Rev-JP George Brown would row up the Ohio from Carntown,Ky to preach at his Logsdon cousins. And that my own Adam Simmons was the neighborhood ,Methodist class leader. It's mentioned that Methodist local minister,Obediah Winans, lived there awhile. As I remember,the DAR ladies recorded no cemetaries in this bottom,or only the few stones in the yard of the Broadwell house at RT 133-52. It's easy to quickly find evidence of more deaths- Evert's 1880"History of Clermont' ,page 343, talking about the collapse by floodwaters,of the Union building of the Communist 1844 Fourierite Society at Utopia mentions '34 persons sheltered in their new building, Dec 13,1847, when thier building collapsed,killing 'many'. 17 lives were lost. Capt Alexander Smith devoloped 'Smith's Landing" and store,and p.o. and had 30 acres of grapes. I'm sure any deaths aong the 1st settlers left no tombstones. I'm thinking,though,that the DAR ladies missed at least one cemetary at Utopia. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.