My Monroe co KY ancestors left the area for Missouri in the 1870 and went thru Summer Shade and on to Missouri and then Kansas. My great granddad Bailey left Monroe Co at about the same time and homesteaded a 160 ac farm in Elk Creek (Texas Co) Missouri and paid one dollar and twenty five cents per acre. The document I received from the Bureau of Land Management helped to prove this price and all the questions that went with procedure of homesteading the land. Wish we could find more land at that price. Talley Bailey _critt61626@aol.com_ (mailto:critt61626@aol.com)