To Mike, Glenn, et al., The day before we met Glenn and Mike Perry and the others cousins in June of this year we made the trip to Sasser, KY. Although it was on the map given us by Glenn some months earlier we had some difficulty locating Sasser. We stopped and ask a farmer on a tractor who had stopped to open a gate to his field just where this Sasser was. He didn't have a clue but looked over Glenn's map. He said we would drive through it just ahead. He said it will look much like the area we were in, just fields and farmhouses. We drove up the road about one half mile and saw the road "T" off to the cemetery just up a hill and we realized the farmer was right. We were driving through Sasser, KY and it is just farmland and farmhouses. Earl Sasser At 08:50 AM 9/2/1998 -0500, you wrote: > >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) >**************************************** > > > >==== SASSER Mailing List ==== >William Pickney Sasser: b. Dec 8th, 1811 d. Jan 11th 1858 may be seen at > http://www.hom.net/~rsasser/ > Jesse Howell Sasser may be seen at: >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/r/y/Bobby-F-Bryan/ODT1-0014.html > > > > > > > > > > > >