Many Rowan Co. families accompanied the Boones and Bryans in their great migration from NC to Kentucky during the fall of 1779. Many of those same people suffered extreme hardship and loss in Kentucky -- particularly those at Bryan's Station -- during the next year, and ended up returning to North Carolina. [after the RW, some of those same folks returned to KY, others remained in NC/etc. Bryan's Station KY was basically abandoned by its founder-builders by the fall of 1780, but other, mostly VA settlers soon moved in and it was they who endured the siege of 1782.] Anyway: Many or most of the Yadkin Bryans went to Kentucky in 1779, but they returned to NC in the fall of 1780, after the death of William Bryan [m. to Mary Boone]. William's older brother Col. Morgan[-2] Bryan kept a small account or note book during that hard Ky winter of 1779-1780. Over the years, I've been trying to identify as many as possible of the Bryan's Station KY founder-builders, _many_ of whom were their friends & neighbors from NC, and particularly those who may be buried in the original, now "lost" Bryan's Station KY cemetery. 1779-80 really was a terrible year, with many people, young and old, lost to disease and Indians, etc. Although many were buried "where they fell", others certainly were buried in the cemetery. Within Morgan Bryan's notebook is a list of four names and small sums of money; I am particularly wondering who was "The Widow DOBBINS." [the only f. name listed] This would have been about February or March 1780. The Widow Dobbins almost certainly would have been living at Bryan's Station at that time. I wonder if she left for KY as a widow or was widowed during the next several months, as so many women were. Does anyone know if any or which NC or SW VA Dobbins family may have gone to KY 1779/80? or, better yet: who was the Widow Dobbins? Is her husband buried at Bryan's Station? Thanks, Kathryn