I've read so many messages about feather beds, shuck beds and straw beds, I've already taken four naps today. If this keeps up, I'll never find my ancestors!! I am trying to find where the Harrells of Mitchell co. N.C. came from in Va... One time it got so cold up here in the mountains of Va..Some of my cousins who were sleeping upstairs under a shingle roof...all got into one bed and took the featherbed off the other bed and put it on top of them to stay warm!! That was the year when the words froze when people spoke and nobody knew what anybody had said 'till the spring thaw came..and... G. Lee Hearl Abingdon, Va.