Mike, I have a map of the eastern part of Laurel County. As we all know, Blackwater Creek (also the name of a church and formerly of a post office and school)--at the extreme southeastern tip of the county, next to Knox County and Clay County--was (is?) the center of Sasser life (i.e., of Henry Sasser's descendants). That is where Henry Sasser and Nannie his wife settled in 1826. I am less familiar with the place called Sasser, but the map shows it as lying just north of Blackwater. It seems to be across the hill from Blackwater on the waters of Willie Creek (which roughly parallels Blackwater Creek as a tributary of the Laurel River) or maybe Bennets Branch. Sasser is adjacent to Clay County. If you will give me your address, I will be glad to send you a copy of this map. This applies to any member of Sasser-L. What was stated about Abe's mother being postmistress fits what I know about the names of other post offices around there. That is, they tended to be named for the first postmaster/postmistress. And although the post office probably does not exist any more (the address presumably being London instead, which should not be taken to mean that this is IN or PART OF London), such a name of the locality often has remained. By the way, there is a web site on Kentucky place names that includes a lot of such localities. Rootsweb also has a map of Laurel County that shows where the creeks are located, etc. Glenn From: MikelSas@aol.com Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:09:25 EDT Subject: Re: [SASSER-L] FW: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from the MOUNTAIN ECHO To: SASSER-L@rootsweb.com Reply-to: SASSER-L@rootsweb.com The following is taken from the book "The History of Wallowa County Oregon" Does anyone have any information on where Sasser Ky. might have been? Was it just a Post Office? This is about my greatgrandfather, Abraham Sasser. His mother was Pharby Jones Sasser Thanks, Mike Sasser "The decision to leave Sasser, Laurel County. Kentucky, was more than a little frightening. True they would be making the long journey with other families of relatives and friends. True, they would join more relatives and friends already established in Wallowa County and the strangeness and anxiety would be eased. But, true, also, the family of Abe Sasser was leaving a familiar environment of acceptable security among relatives, neighbors and friends of long standing. Sasser, Kentucky, a small village 10 1 2 miles from London, Kentucky had long been home to the Sassers, Hammacks, and numerous related families for generations. Here, too, Abe's mother was postmistress." ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Humfleets and Sasser may be seen at: http://www.isource.net/~ralph/ William Henry Sasser and Mary Catherine Jones may be found at http://members.tripod.com/~arthowe/ ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************