This is the second time I have tried to send this message. Two of the people on the list said they did not get it on the first try, however Don said he did. So again I'll send the 2nd day of our trip along with information about a web page with photographs of the Dixon/Sasser Cemetery. >Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:23:07 -0700 >To: Sasser-List >From: Earl Sasser <EWSass@writeme.com> >Subject: Visiting the Dixon/Sasser Cemetery. > >To: The Sasser-List, > >Last June my wife, son and I went to the Sasser family reunion in Millington, TN. The reunion has held on the 26th and 27th of the month. We started our odyssey on the 16th so we would have time to visit both Laurel County, KY and also Smithfield, La Grange, Goldsboro, New Bern in NC. My son wanted to go to Fort Macon all the way out to the Atlantic Ocean. > >In our travels to Laurel County we stopped by Pittsburg, the Pittsburg mentioned in the Adin letter to his son Henry Sasser of Highlandville, MO. A letter dated August 20, 1864. Pittsburg is a town about 3 miles Northwest of London, KY. Most of the locals there didn't know of the military post historically located there during the Civil War and today Pittsburg is a bedroom community of London. > >John Pittman and Holland Pittman had their homes there and that is were it got it's name. When coal was found by John Pittman in 1872 ten big coal company moved in along with the railroad and soon they had a Opera House, Taverns, Hotels, doctors, lawyers, judges, court and jail. I was told I should talk with this one man working at the meat company on the main highway. He gave me a one page history of the town and some information he was told about the military post that Adin just called "The Post of Pittsburg." > >Another man I was talking with at a construction site told me his son found an old confederate half dollar with a year of 1861 on it. He said he thought the "Post" was on top of the hill, presently being leveled to facilitate the construction of a mobile home park on the site. This mobile home park is being built by Geo. Humfleet Mobil Home Sale on highway 75. It was a Humfleet that married one of old Henry's daughters way back in 1837. > >Today in that location one would not find any sign of a military post there, nonetheless today one can see a sign just at the start of Pittsburg saying "Police Station Post 11." Is it possible that "The Post of Pittsburg" that Adin was talking about was the local law at that time? > >On the 17th and 18th we visited London, KY and were meet there by Mike and Glenn Perry who so graciously arranged for us to be shown the Dixon/Sasser Cemetery. The property is now owned by a lady in London and Glenn made arraignments with her for us to go and visit the cemetery. Mike and Glenn also introduced us to Cousins living in the Blackwater area. The Dixon/Sasser Cemetery is a walk up hill to a very heavily wooded area. See photos attached: <http://members.tripod.com/~Sass_Master_General/day03/day03.html> > >The first photograph is the Blackwater Church; the next three photographs are of the Sasser/Glass Cemetery also just off Blackwater Road. The next two photographs are of the Dixon/Sasser Cemetery where Henry Sasser and Dixon Sasser are buried with headstones. Adin I am told is also buried there but without grave markers and due to the over grown condition of the cemetery we were not able to locate their graves. The next photograph is the dense foliage covering most of the graves. The group photograph left to right: General Hale (a.k.a.) Hawk Hale, his wife Fay Hale (nee) Fay Hale, Mike Perry, Lisle Hale (Fay's sister), Earl & Phyllis Sasser and our son John Sasser, At the right of the line is Glenn Perry. > >The last two photos were taken in Corbin, KY and the first KFC. The web site was put together by my son John, <astro@home.com>. > >From Kentucky we went South and some days later we found ourselves in Goldsboro, North Carolina by way of the Cumberland Gap. Over around and under we toured it well. Walking on the original Wilderness Road one gets a real handle on the physical condition of our ancestors because that is the road that Henry must have traveled on in 1825/1826 in moving his family from North Caroline to Kentucky. From there we went on to the Smoky Mountains and spent two days there. We then went to where old Henry started from in North Carolina, the area known during the English rule as Craven Precinct. There we went to the Atlantic Ocean. > >Both in Goldsboro and La Grange we visited the libraries it was the library in La Grande I found the book about the history of Lenoir County. But it was Goldsboro's library that most impressed me. The library was of modern design as most new libraries are but inside, off to one side, is the genealogical room and it took on the look of an old ivy covered Harvard library of the older order. The genealogical room is locked off from the rest of the library and one would need to be let in. If once you leave the door locks behind you and you will need to be let in again to return to the room. Inside the genealogical room there are two book cases that are locked and I am just wondering just how one would get in them? I do think anyone down that way should give them a look-see. > > Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com