It took me 60 years to realize they had family contacts ahead of them. Also, land promotion agencies, like today's Chamber of Commerce advertised in Eastern papers. There were Wylys and Seviers and Hatchetts in my family I had not heard of untio recently.&in Texas before 1840. I have a copy of 2 1918 letters from Minneola, Texas to Seneca, S. C. giving Sevier, Wyly, & Cleveland history. I would bet others were sent and lost after each birth and death. Also, one Sevier son wrote and told his wife and kids to get in a wagon and meet him at Millford, Hill County, Texas. He rode to California and back and met them there and the family is still rooted in the Itasca- Hill County area. He told them the Hill County black land and streams were as good as he had seen from Tennessee to California and a lot prettier than most. Take care / charles Wyly On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:27:47 +0200 "Douglas/Ungaro" <[email protected]> writes: >Was there much migration from Tennessee, or from East Tennessee in >particular, to Kansas after the turn of the century? > >Does anyone else know of families who migrated west to Kansas from >TN? > >Where people recruited for jobs? Did they have any idea where they >were >going, or did they just pack up and go? > >Thank you, Marian > > > > > >==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== >If someone sends a warning about an email virus or asks you to send >ANY >message to everybody you know, check out these site to see if it's for >real: >IBM AntiVirus Home Page >http://www.av.ibm.com >McAfee: Virus Hoaxes >http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.asp >or one of these sites which are very good about virus and >chainletter hoaxes or myths: >http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html >http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html >http://kumite.com/myths/myths/ >