Angela I also really enjoy reading of long ago and keep hoping I see someone I know that I've been looking for. Like my father's sister who died in 1939. (MARY)ELLEN WARD BOWLIN?????she married after ENOCH BOWLIN but I don't know who. She was the daughter of HENRY WARD and MAMIE MILSAPS WARD Milly WARD Piros My mind is lightning one brilliant flash and pooooffffffffffffffffffffff it's gone. Rootsweb Administrator for Anderson, Campbell and Fentress Tennessee Counties

Soon after the firts settlement of the year 1770 had been made on the Tygarts Valley, Buckhannon and West Fork Rivers by their tributaries, and before many inroads and invasions had been made by the merciless savages on these pioneers for the purpose of killing and scalping men, women, and children, or carrying them into captivity, arrangements were made by which spies and scouts were sent out to watch the movements and approach of the Indians, and to report same to the settlers. Indeed companies of these scouts or spies were organized and commanded by proper officials and were obliged to serve alternately by squads. Such military organizations were obtained in the summer of 1770, when a detachment of six men were sent out from Randolph CO to spy on the maddened Indians. Four of this small company were William WHITE(was this the James White of White's Fort Father?), Thomas DRENNEN, Paul Shaver, and John Cutright, the other two are unknown John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com