At 09:08 AM 6/20/99 -0500, you wrote: >Helen, >If you do recall the name of the book that described the travels of persons >migrating from the Holstein River area to Nashville, I would be very >interested. My Laughlin Family may have taken that route. I know from the >Dairy of Samuel Hervey Laughlin that he rode by horseback as a young man, but >I believe that those taking the families and goods would have taken another >route - probably the rivers. > >Delores King i have read that a group of the men did go overland on horseback, they sent the wives and children on the river route thinking it would be the safer way to go. Boy, were they wrong...... Mary