Hi folks, when I am researching and find notice of a migrant from the old country, I post it here. I urge others to do the same. The archives are full of these 'random findings'. Todays is from http://www.shawhan.com/elizconway.html THE TRIUMPHANT TRAILS, TOILS, AND TRIBUTIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY PIONEER MOTHER, ELIZABETH CONWAY – A BIOGRAPHY TO SHOW THE HUMAN PORTRAIT OF THIS HEROINE OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER. (Paper given by Virginia Walton Brooks (Mrs. Berry B. Brooks, Jr.) at the April meeting of the Memphis Genealogical Society. (Transcribed by Sherida Dougherty from a typed transcription of the article from “Ansearchin News”, Vol. X, January 1963) "Elizabeth Bridgewater Conway was native Virginian of English parentage. About 1750-52, she became the wife of John Conway, Sr., a Latin scholar and teacher, who had emigrated from his Dublin, Ireland home to Virginia. His teaching profession caused them to establish several homes in Virginia and Kentucky. Their family Bible owned by Mrs. Berry B. Brooks, a descendent records the names and births of nine of their children. Family tradition tells us that they lived in Spotsylvania County, Va. " They had moved, by the Revolution, to Ruddle’s Station on the upper waters of Licking River, in the present county of Bourbon, in Kentucky where they were subjected to an attack by Indians: "Early in the spring of 1780, the danger of marauding Indians became so great that these migratory families were obligated to leave their own roughhewn log homes to move into the fort for protection. While the women-folk and children remained within the fort, the men went out daily to work, clearing the land and planting the crops. Alternating this work with acting in the capacity of guards, having their guns read to protect the workers against an Indian attack. "Ruddle’s Station and the Conway family, had escaped the terror of a devastating Indian raid until a peaceful Sunday morning, on that fateful day, June 19, 1780, when Elizabeth and John Conway’s youngest son was scalped by marauding Indians sent by the British....". John Conway, Sr. died May 3, 1801 in Campbell County, Kentucky. Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net