I found this on the Roane County TN GenWeb page. Thought it might be of interest to some on the list. I have found many families, including my ancestors, went to this area, from SW VA. This is where it is found: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnroane/chancery.htm There was litigation in the Chancery Court held at Kingston on the estate of William KING of Abington, Washington County, VA who died 13 Oct 1818 because he was a partner in a merchantile firm with W.D. NELSON and William J. SMITH in Kingston. This firm owned lots 8, 9, 10, 81 and 82 in Kingston. William KING'S will is recorded in the Chancery record. It is dated 3 Mar 1806. He names his wife, Mary; his father, Thomas KING; William KING, son of his brother, James KING "on condition that William will mary a daughter of William TRIGG"; neice, Rachel, wife of William TRIGG lately Rachel FINDLAY; sister Elizabeth, wife of John MITCHELL. He mentions his business of saltworks and merchandizing. He mentions Conally FINDLAY, nieces Elizabeth FINDLAY and Elizabeth MITCHELL "being called for my grandmother with whom I was brought up," other nephews and nieces that are the children of his brother, James KING; sisters Nancy and Elizabeth; half brother, Samuel and half sister Hannah and the Abingdon Academy. Executors were William TRIGG of Abington and James KING of Nashville, Tennessee. In this suit started 28 July 1827, the heirs of William KING are named as William KING, Thomas J. KING and Rachel Mary Elizabeth McCALL formerly KING, wife of Alexander McCALL, who are the children of his brother JAMES KING, who died about a year after William died; Sarah, wife of Thomas CLAIBORNE, William TRIGG, David TRIGG, Conally TRIGG and Lilburn TRIGG represented by their guardian Peter J. BRANCH, residents of Davidson County, Tenn. William TRIGG died 4 Aug. 1813. John McCAMPBELL of Knox County, Tenn. was attorney for a suit in Tennessee and died leaving his wife Nancy and children, Thomas, Andrew and Mary Louisa, minors. Dec Term 1828. pp 451-472 God Bless!!!!! Peggy C (Fuller) Keen Website: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5049 *********************************************************** AMERICAN BY BIRTH, DAUGHTER OF THE MOUNTAINS BY THE GRACE of GOD...Diana Kinzer Heath ***********************************************************

Possibly because so many families passed through Lee County, the "Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties" contains information on many families. It is in two volumes, Vol. I by Anne Wynn Laningham and Vol II by Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales. Both were published in 1977 by Media, Inc. of Greensboro, NC. I found both volumes in the Virginia Room of a Northern Virginia Library. Jennie

Neighbors, I have been helping several people locate small/lost places. I have all the county road maps and some old maps. I would be happy to help. No guarantees. Keep the above subject. -eddie

What you all say is true, but one thing the beautiful Old Dominion has that we poor Southern Calfornians have to live without is (and I remember them well) -- CHIGGERS. ("Redbugs" to you Georgians). Henrico (Henrekka) Tom Robertson Escondido, CA

Hi List, I am one of your newcomers and have enjoyed all the 'hollers' recently I was given some new information on my BEAMAN line. Wm M beaman b; 14 July 1864 in Ashe Co,NC Married Aug 1882 to Milly BLEVINS and they moved on to Big Stone Gap,Wise Co,,VA He died 15 Nov 1904 buried in Glencoe Cemetery in BSG,VA. He left behind a young widow with three small children. The recent family info I rec'd tells me that she had a half brother by the name of HAMM who moved them to Rural Retreat or Groseclose VA Milly died ca. 1916 so the story goes. Where is Groseclose located? Is it close to Rural Retreat which is in Wyethe Co? Warm Regards, Marjorie Reed researching BEAMAN WYATT HORTON

<<Of all the states I've been to, I'd have to say Virginia is the most glorious (but I thought the same thing when I drove through the Pennsylvania Deutch country!) There's beauty to be found in all of these United States>> I have been in all but two of the states east of the Mississippi and about half of those west. I have been in seven foreign countries; and the more I see the more I think SW VA is the remains of the Garden washed away by the Flood. Yes, PA is beautiful. The West is awe inspiring. << coming from Lee Co., VA. I'm sure many of you all have too. Can someone tell me.....was this a heavily populated area? Was there constant wagon traffic (migration) out of Lee Co or did huge wagon trains leave every 3 months or someting like that? Was this trail taken called the Cumberland Gap? >> The Gap was THE passage to the West lands for 20 years or more. The trails or roads had different names but they all feed thru the Gap. The Wilderness Road, the Fincastle Road, The Blue Grass trail. Warrior Path. They merged and passed thru Lee Co. -eddie

Well, I don't think I go along with the "mine are older" bit. They were only known sooner. They were all there but undiscovered to the most part. <grin> Antoinette waughtel@oz.net DCP wrote: > Have had a giggle or two over this thread... Having been raised over the Gap in > Bell County, KY... born out West where the "Big Mountains" are... > > As Daddy would say, "Your mountains may be bigger but mine are older!" > > Dianne > > researching > SEXTON, SKEEN, BEVERLY, WHEATLEY, SMITH, MILLER, OSBORNE, > all of Russell, Scott, Wise Counties in VA and Sullivan and Hancock Counties in > TN > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #2 A large database of SURNAMES and the researcher's email address can be found at > http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/quarrybank/194/swabc.htm > You may have your SURNAMES included by posting them and your address to the > LIST and NOT to the sysop/owner. -- Researching: Alkire, Breckenridge, Burton, Cann, Claypool(e), Denton, Daugherty, Dunbar, Evans, Gorrell, Hagan, Jimenez, Keel, Keith, Kern/es, Ladner, Lawler, Leffler, Littell, Merrifield, Norris, Pettyjohn, Ponsler, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Sinex, Sinnickson, Stiddem/Stidham, Tossawa/Tussey, Vantreese, Wachtel/Waughtel, Walker, White, Wilcox, Winfield

Have had a giggle or two over this thread... Having been raised over the Gap in Bell County, KY... born out West where the "Big Mountains" are... As Daddy would say, "Your mountains may be bigger but mine are older!" Dianne researching SEXTON, SKEEN, BEVERLY, WHEATLEY, SMITH, MILLER, OSBORNE, all of Russell, Scott, Wise Counties in VA and Sullivan and Hancock Counties in TN

Well Shucks gone folks. We dun got us some easterners out in Virginiy, some westerners out in Californy and some good folks up in Big Sky Country otherwise known as Montana. But I dun think for us simple hick folks here in the midwest, I thinks I will keep my beautiful Ozarks. I have been fortunate to have seen all three and believe me, they all have their own beauty - as God wished it to be!!! George gebasden@worldnet.att.net http://www.basden.com -----Original Message----- From: Edgar A. Howard <ehoward@conknet.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Hollars & Valley of Scott Co, VA Neighbors Everywhere, I recall an old Montana farmer in Big Country boastfully asking Gregory Peck if he had seen anything as big as the Montana countryside. Peck's reply was "Yes, a few oceans." <lol> As I told the people of S. CA, a very large pile of rocks w/ or w/o a few ugly pine on it do not a mountain make. If Montana or anywhere else has mountains 1/10th the beauty of the Blue Ridge I would be very happy to see them. I'm not interested in a large pile of rock regardless of how high they are. Are the women of Montana judged by their size or beauty?? <lol> Those blessed people of SW VA do not have to drive anywhere to see "heaven"; they live there. -eddie P.S. I have a little data of the Gillespie of Gillespie Hollow in Tazewell Co. You people from Virginia and the rest of that east coast area talking about mountains, Hollers, valleys, ect. Now come out to Montana and we will show you some mountains (real mountains so high they reach into the sky ) valleys so deep that you wonder if they go to the middle of the earth. There are no Hollers in Montana, but all of my ancestors came from Virginia around Tazewell so I guess I can't be to rough on "Highlanders" that call a Holler a Valley. Come out here and go over Going-To-The-Sun Highway or The Cook City Highway and you'll swear that you are going to end up in Heaven. If any of you Highlanders know anything about the Wilson & Gillespie Tribes please let me know. Maybe we are related. God Bless, Bill William Wilson gillespy@montana.com -----Original Message----- From: Edgar A. Howard <ehoward@conknet.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 09:57 PM Subject: Re: Hollars & Valley of Scott Co, VA joan & all, <<Please define "hollow" for me. Is it like a valley only smaller, more like a trough between hills? And I always thought spelling for the mispronunciation was "holler." Like in a whoop and a holler.>> I hope you don't mind me posting to the List. Talk about a subject that will start a fight.<g> This could do it. I confess that I love the "mispronunciations" of the language of SW VA. We have discussed it some and I am learning more about it by being in NH. There is something special about words that end in -ow . I don't pronounce them in the King's English. Not -low like the low temperature here in NH tonight. Only about ZERO . But I don't say -lar like those of the the back counties or hillbillies. I'm a Highlander. For pillow or hollow I say -luh . I think that is the right phonetics. O.K., the definition. This is mine, please anyone can disagree, politely.<g> It is not a valley in the sense that it is between two distinct mountains. The mountains in SW VA are mostly ranges. That is a ridge with a spine that is more or less uniform in height. There is an occasional dip in the ridge called a GAP. Thus the Blue RIDGE mts. Coming off perpendicular from the ridge are "SPURS" , which are ridges that run from the mt. ridge to the base of the mt. or the valley. Between these frequent spurs are "valleys" that slowly rise to the top of the mountain. Being the lowest level of its surroundings, there is usually a creek or stream running down the hollow to a river that usually runs down the valleys. Any time there is a stream running between mts. or spurs there can be a hollow. The "valley" formed by the gaps in the mountains is a hollow. There being a stream, the hollow was a good place to put a home if all the pasture land of the valley is gone. As I have posted, there are some theories that certain people, or peoples, who perferred to live in the hollow. You can't put a still out in the middle of the valley. There is more privacy in a hollow. I bet there are other reasons. I hope someone can go better. Make any sense, Joan?? -eddie ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their SURNAMES anytime they please. ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their SURNAMES anytime they please. ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #8 Anyone interested and researching SW VA and Appalachian history might be interested in the Fincastle History Forum list. Contact Edgar at ehoward@conknet.com or swvaroot@swva.net for a copy of the rules.

Well, we Washingtonians (at least the western side of the Cascades) claim we live in God's Country. Isn't that Heaven on Earth!! And we do have Mount Rainier!. Antoinette waughtel@oz.net "Edgar A. Howard" wrote: > Neighbors Everywhere, > > I recall an old Montana farmer in Big Country boastfully asking > Gregory Peck if he had seen anything as big as the Montana > countryside. Peck's reply was "Yes, a few oceans." <lol> > > As I told the people of S. CA, a very large pile of rocks w/ or > w/o a few ugly pine on it do not a mountain make. If Montana or > anywhere else has mountains 1/10th the beauty of the Blue Ridge I > would be very happy to see them. I'm not interested in a large pile > of rock regardless of how high they are. Are the women of > Montana judged by their size or beauty?? <lol> > > Those blessed people of SW VA do not have to drive anywhere > to see "heaven"; they live there. > > -eddie > > P.S. I have a little data of the Gillespie of Gillespie Hollow in > Tazewell Co. > > You people from Virginia and the rest of that east coast area talking about > mountains, Hollers, valleys, ect. Now come out to Montana and we will show > you some mountains (real mountains so high they reach into the sky ) > valleys so deep that you wonder if they go to the middle of the earth. There > are no Hollers in Montana, but all of my ancestors came from Virginia around > Tazewell so I guess I can't be to rough on "Highlanders" that call a Holler > a Valley. > > Come out here and go over Going-To-The-Sun Highway or The Cook City Highway > and you'll swear that you are going to end up in Heaven. > > If any of you Highlanders know anything about the Wilson & Gillespie Tribes > please let me know. Maybe we are related. > > God Bless, > Bill > William Wilson > gillespy@montana.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edgar A. Howard <ehoward@conknet.com> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 09:57 PM > Subject: Re: Hollars & Valley of Scott Co, VA > > joan & all, > > <<Please define "hollow" for me. Is it like a valley only smaller, more > like a > trough between hills? > And I always thought spelling for the mispronunciation was "holler." > Like in a whoop and a holler.>> > > I hope you don't mind me posting to the List. > > Talk about a subject that will start a fight.<g> This could do it. I > confess that I love the "mispronunciations" of the language of SW VA. > We have discussed it some and I am learning more about it by being in > NH. There is something special about words that end in -ow . I don't > pronounce them in the King's English. Not -low like the low temperature > here in NH tonight. Only about ZERO . But I don't say -lar like those > of the the back counties or hillbillies. I'm a Highlander. For pillow or > hollow > I say -luh . I think that is the right phonetics. > > O.K., the definition. This is mine, please anyone can disagree, > politely.<g> > > It is not a valley in the sense that it is between two distinct mountains. > The mountains in SW VA are mostly ranges. That is a ridge with a spine > that is more or less uniform in height. There is an occasional dip in the > ridge > called a GAP. Thus the Blue RIDGE mts. > > Coming off perpendicular from the ridge are "SPURS" , which are > ridges that run from the mt. ridge to the base of the mt. or the valley. > Between these frequent spurs are "valleys" that slowly rise to the top of > the > mountain. Being the lowest level of its surroundings, there is usually a > creek or > stream running down the hollow to a river that usually runs down the > valleys. Any > time there is a stream running between mts. or spurs there can be a hollow. > The "valley" formed by the gaps in the mountains is a hollow. > There being a stream, the hollow was a good place to put a home if all the > pasture land of the valley is gone. As I have posted, there are some > theories > that certain people, or peoples, who perferred to live in the hollow. You > can't > put a still out in the middle of the valley. There is more privacy in a > hollow. > I bet there are other reasons. > > I hope someone can go better. Make any sense, Joan?? > > -eddie > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called > by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their > SURNAMES anytime they please. > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called > by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their > SURNAMES anytime they please. > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #8 Anyone interested and researching SW VA and Appalachian history might > be interested in the Fincastle History Forum list. Contact Edgar at > ehoward@conknet.com or swvaroot@swva.net for a copy of the rules. -- Researching: Alkire, Breckenridge, Burton, Cann, Claypool(e), Denton, Daugherty, Dunbar, Evans, Gorrell, Hagan, Jimenez, Keel, Keith, Kern/es, Ladner, Lawler, Leffler, Littell, Merrifield, Norris, Pettyjohn, Ponsler, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Sinex, Sinnickson, Stiddem/Stidham, Tossawa/Tussey, Vantreese, Wachtel/Waughtel, Walker, White, Wilcox, Winfield

Neighbors Everywhere, I recall an old Montana farmer in Big Country boastfully asking Gregory Peck if he had seen anything as big as the Montana countryside. Peck's reply was "Yes, a few oceans." <lol> As I told the people of S. CA, a very large pile of rocks w/ or w/o a few ugly pine on it do not a mountain make. If Montana or anywhere else has mountains 1/10th the beauty of the Blue Ridge I would be very happy to see them. I'm not interested in a large pile of rock regardless of how high they are. Are the women of Montana judged by their size or beauty?? <lol> Those blessed people of SW VA do not have to drive anywhere to see "heaven"; they live there. -eddie P.S. I have a little data of the Gillespie of Gillespie Hollow in Tazewell Co. You people from Virginia and the rest of that east coast area talking about mountains, Hollers, valleys, ect. Now come out to Montana and we will show you some mountains (real mountains so high they reach into the sky ) valleys so deep that you wonder if they go to the middle of the earth. There are no Hollers in Montana, but all of my ancestors came from Virginia around Tazewell so I guess I can't be to rough on "Highlanders" that call a Holler a Valley. Come out here and go over Going-To-The-Sun Highway or The Cook City Highway and you'll swear that you are going to end up in Heaven. If any of you Highlanders know anything about the Wilson & Gillespie Tribes please let me know. Maybe we are related. God Bless, Bill William Wilson gillespy@montana.com -----Original Message----- From: Edgar A. Howard <ehoward@conknet.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 09:57 PM Subject: Re: Hollars & Valley of Scott Co, VA joan & all, <<Please define "hollow" for me. Is it like a valley only smaller, more like a trough between hills? And I always thought spelling for the mispronunciation was "holler." Like in a whoop and a holler.>> I hope you don't mind me posting to the List. Talk about a subject that will start a fight.<g> This could do it. I confess that I love the "mispronunciations" of the language of SW VA. We have discussed it some and I am learning more about it by being in NH. There is something special about words that end in -ow . I don't pronounce them in the King's English. Not -low like the low temperature here in NH tonight. Only about ZERO . But I don't say -lar like those of the the back counties or hillbillies. I'm a Highlander. For pillow or hollow I say -luh . I think that is the right phonetics. O.K., the definition. This is mine, please anyone can disagree, politely.<g> It is not a valley in the sense that it is between two distinct mountains. The mountains in SW VA are mostly ranges. That is a ridge with a spine that is more or less uniform in height. There is an occasional dip in the ridge called a GAP. Thus the Blue RIDGE mts. Coming off perpendicular from the ridge are "SPURS" , which are ridges that run from the mt. ridge to the base of the mt. or the valley. Between these frequent spurs are "valleys" that slowly rise to the top of the mountain. Being the lowest level of its surroundings, there is usually a creek or stream running down the hollow to a river that usually runs down the valleys. Any time there is a stream running between mts. or spurs there can be a hollow. The "valley" formed by the gaps in the mountains is a hollow. There being a stream, the hollow was a good place to put a home if all the pasture land of the valley is gone. As I have posted, there are some theories that certain people, or peoples, who perferred to live in the hollow. You can't put a still out in the middle of the valley. There is more privacy in a hollow. I bet there are other reasons. I hope someone can go better. Make any sense, Joan?? -eddie ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their SURNAMES anytime they please. ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their SURNAMES anytime they please.

You people from Virginia and the rest of that east coast area talking about mountains, Hollers, valleys, ect. Now come out to Montana and we will show you some mountains (real mountains so high they reach into the sky ) valleys so deep that you wonder if they go to the middle of the earth. There are no Hollers in Montana, but all of my ancestors came from Virginia around Tazewell so I guess I can't be to rough on "Highlanders" that call a Holler a Valley. Come out here and go over Going-To-The-Sun Highway or The Cook City Highway and you'll swear that you are going to end up in Heaven. If any of you Highlanders know anything about the Wilson & Gillespie Tribes please let me know. Maybe we are related. God Bless, Bill William Wilson gillespy@montana.com -----Original Message----- From: Edgar A. Howard <ehoward@conknet.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 09:57 PM Subject: Re: Hollars & Valley of Scott Co, VA joan & all, <<Please define "hollow" for me. Is it like a valley only smaller, more like a trough between hills? And I always thought spelling for the mispronunciation was "holler." Like in a whoop and a holler.>> I hope you don't mind me posting to the List. Talk about a subject that will start a fight.<g> This could do it. I confess that I love the "mispronunciations" of the language of SW VA. We have discussed it some and I am learning more about it by being in NH. There is something special about words that end in -ow . I don't pronounce them in the King's English. Not -low like the low temperature here in NH tonight. Only about ZERO . But I don't say -lar like those of the the back counties or hillbillies. I'm a Highlander. For pillow or hollow I say -luh . I think that is the right phonetics. O.K., the definition. This is mine, please anyone can disagree, politely.<g> It is not a valley in the sense that it is between two distinct mountains. The mountains in SW VA are mostly ranges. That is a ridge with a spine that is more or less uniform in height. There is an occasional dip in the ridge called a GAP. Thus the Blue RIDGE mts. Coming off perpendicular from the ridge are "SPURS" , which are ridges that run from the mt. ridge to the base of the mt. or the valley. Between these frequent spurs are "valleys" that slowly rise to the top of the mountain. Being the lowest level of its surroundings, there is usually a creek or stream running down the hollow to a river that usually runs down the valleys. Any time there is a stream running between mts. or spurs there can be a hollow. The "valley" formed by the gaps in the mountains is a hollow. There being a stream, the hollow was a good place to put a home if all the pasture land of the valley is gone. As I have posted, there are some theories that certain people, or peoples, who perferred to live in the hollow. You can't put a still out in the middle of the valley. There is more privacy in a hollow. I bet there are other reasons. I hope someone can go better. Make any sense, Joan?? -eddie ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their SURNAMES anytime they please.

I am not sure if these are the names you need. They were carved in a tree about three miles from Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. The date was 1775 June Thursday the 13th. The names were from about 9 feet from the ground to the lowest about 4 feet. The names are from the top to the bottom as follows: J. Newell, E. Bulger, I. Hite, V. Harman, J. Jackson, W. Buchanan, A Bowman, J.Drake, N, Nall, H. Skaggs, J. Bowman, Tho. Slaughter and J. Todd. This information came from the book "Harman Genealogy, Southern Branch" by John N. Harman, Sr. I hope this is the information that you need. Thomas Harmon ---------- > From: D. M. Burke <deburgh@scescape.net> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Danial Boone > Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 12:15 PM > > Howdy all; > > Does any one on the list have or know where to obtain a roster of the men > that accompanied Daniel Boone when he cut out the "Wilderness Road"? > > > > David. M. Burke > deburgh@scescape.net > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #9 As of 1/9/1999 we have 450 members. Traffic can get heavy so check your > mailbox often. We should regulate traffic so it don't get out of hand. > There is an average of ten members coming and going each week. > -sysop

As a former Virginia resident, I can attest to the awesome beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains (which really are blue, btw). Of all the states I've been to, I'd have to say Virginia is the most glorious (but I thought the same thing when I drove through the Pennsylvania Deutch country!) There's beauty to be found in all of these United States, and aren't we blessed that this country's attributes are so wonderfully varied from coast to coast? Throughout my research I have come across so many of my family members (different surnames) coming from Lee Co., VA. I'm sure many of you all have too. Can someone tell me.....was this a heavily populated area? Was there constant wagon traffic (migration) out of Lee Co or did huge wagon trains leave every 3 months or someting like that? Was this trail taken called the Cumberland Gap? Kerry (now amid the amber waves of grain in Indiana)

Hey! I have driven both of them. The Blue Ridge Parkway on lovely foggy morning, with spring blooms poking through the mists in burst of color. And then the sun coming out to bless the scene in full glory. And I drove the Going to the Sun Road with the first big flakes of autumn damping my windshield and a weak sun playing hide and seek among the crags and peaks. No comparison between the two. Both are awesome. This is such a wonderful country we live in. God gave us a calendar scene around every bend in the road, over the next peak, into the next holler. No wonder folks just kept streaming in from overseas over the century. Not only was there land in which to spread out, but it was glorious breathtaking land!! love joan

Searching for links to Saltville, Va, Olinger & Hayden families . Theresa Olinger-Martin New Jersey

>From the Rootsweb Digest: GEEK SPEAK. Thanks to Leigh Compton, Dale Schneider, and Tim Pierce, who collaborated on the following explanation. SPIDER. Playing on the analogy of a web, as in World Wide Web, a spider is a software program that regularly searches (or "crawls") through the Internet, indexing all the text in all the pages on the Web. Spiders allow search services to keep up with the new content being added to the Web, without having to depend on the creators of that content to index it themselves. Because a spider's job is to travel automatically through the links on a Web site, it can do this at lightning-quick speeds, processing hundreds or thousands of pages per second. That kind of rate can easily swamp a fully loaded Web server and take it right off the Net. On occasion, RootsWeb has been visited by a poorly designed spider from another genealogy site on the Web, one which hits our machines so hard that we've been forced to block traffic from them for several weeks at a time.

joan & all, <<Please define "hollow" for me. Is it like a valley only smaller, more like a trough between hills? And I always thought spelling for the mispronunciation was "holler." Like in a whoop and a holler.>> I hope you don't mind me posting to the List. Talk about a subject that will start a fight.<g> This could do it. I confess that I love the "mispronunciations" of the language of SW VA. We have discussed it some and I am learning more about it by being in NH. There is something special about words that end in -ow . I don't pronounce them in the King's English. Not -low like the low temperature here in NH tonight. Only about ZERO . But I don't say -lar like those of the the back counties or hillbillies. I'm a Highlander. For pillow or hollow I say -luh . I think that is the right phonetics. O.K., the definition. This is mine, please anyone can disagree, politely.<g> It is not a valley in the sense that it is between two distinct mountains. The mountains in SW VA are mostly ranges. That is a ridge with a spine that is more or less uniform in height. There is an occasional dip in the ridge called a GAP. Thus the Blue RIDGE mts. Coming off perpendicular from the ridge are "SPURS" , which are ridges that run from the mt. ridge to the base of the mt. or the valley. Between these frequent spurs are "valleys" that slowly rise to the top of the mountain. Being the lowest level of its surroundings, there is usually a creek or stream running down the hollow to a river that usually runs down the valleys. Any time there is a stream running between mts. or spurs there can be a hollow. The "valley" formed by the gaps in the mountains is a hollow. There being a stream, the hollow was a good place to put a home if all the pasture land of the valley is gone. As I have posted, there are some theories that certain people, or peoples, who perferred to live in the hollow. You can't put a still out in the middle of the valley. There is more privacy in a hollow. I bet there are other reasons. I hope someone can go better. Make any sense, Joan?? -eddie

Joan, A holler is the hollowing out between the hills--a trough. Usually there's not much room for too much between them. Most I ever lived on was mainly a creek and a little flat area and then the hillsides. By the way, where I am from, they well earned the name holler. We could literally stand at one end and yell so that it echoed down the creek...thus, holler. Diana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ USGenWeb County Coordinator for: VA Roanoke Co., Roanoke City, and Salem City at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~varoanok/index.html Roanoke Co., VA Mailing List at: VAROANOK-L@rootsweb.com USGenWEB County Coordinator for: Wood Co., WV at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwood/indexa.htm *****NEW!!! WVWOOD-L@ROOTSWEB.COM ~~~~NEW MAILING LIST OWNER FOR: KINZER-L@ROOTSWEB.COM PROUD ROOTSWEB SPONSOR.... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ AMERICAN BY BIRTH, @ @DAUGHTER OF THE MOUNTAINS@ @ BY THE GRACE of GOD...dkh @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -----Original Message----- From: JRose10700@aol.com <JRose10700@aol.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 11:30 PM Subject: Re: Hollars & Valley of Scott Co, VA >Please define "hollow" for me. Is it like a valley only smaller, more like a >trough between hills? >And I always thought spelling for the mispronunciation was "holler." >Like in a whoop and a holler. >love >joan > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#2 A large database of SURNAMES and the researcher's email address can be found at >http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/quarrybank/194/swabc.htm >You may have your SURNAMES included by posting them and your address to the >LIST and NOT to the sysop/owner. >

Having been requested; here are the hallars of Tazewell Co. That's coal mine country. "TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA -- VALLEY" NAME COUNTY DISTRICT OF COUNTY Abbs Valley Tazewell Bramwell Baldwin Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Baptist Valley Tazewell Pounding Mill Beaver Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Brewster Hollow Tazewell Tazewell North Broad Hollow Tazewell Tiptop Brown Hollow Tazewell Richlands Brown Hollow Tazewell Richlands Carpet Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Chicken Coop Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Clinch Valley Tazewell Tiptop Crag Hollow Tazewell Tiptop Dark Hollow Tazewell Tiptop Doughton Hollow Tazewell Richlands East Town Hollow Tazewell Richlands Farling Hollow Tazewell Tiptop Fed Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Freestone Valley Tazewell Broadford Gillespie Hollow Tazewell Richlands Goodwin Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Kentucky Hollow Tazewell Richlands Little Valley Tazewell Chatham Hill Long Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Lynn Hollow Tazewell Tiptop McGuire Valley Tazewell Pounding Mill Millstone Hollow Tazewell Richlands Muddy Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Murry Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Neal Hollow Tazewell Bramwell North Hollow Tazewell Hutchinson Rock Piney Spring Hollow Tazewell Richlands Poor Valley Tazewell Hutchinson Rock Possum Hollow Tazewell Tazewell South Pratter Hollow Tazewell Bramwell Puckett Hollow Tazewell Tiptop Rattlesnake Hollow Tazewell Hutchinson Rock Sam King Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Snag Hollow Tazewell Tiptop Sugar Tree Hollow Tazewell Tazewell South Sulphur Spg Hollow Tazewell Thompson Valley Tazewell Tazewell South Town Hollow Tazewell Richlands Ward Cove Tazewell Pounding Mill Whites Hollow Tazewell Richlands Wildcat Hollow Tazewell Jewell Ridge Witten Valley Tazewell Tazewell South Wrights Valley Tazewell Cove Creek