My great-grandfather, Isaac Peter Sharp, and his sons (Lee, Delas, and Dave) and son-in-law (John Massengale, husband of Alice Sharp Massengale) would cut timber from their farm and sell it in Chattanooga. My granny (Esther Mae Sharp Harness Johnson) said that they would use the timber to build rafts and they would all float down the river (I'm assuming this would be the Clinch but I've never really thought about this and then on to the Tennessee) to Chattanooga where they would sell the timber and then return home. She never talked about how they got home. Maybe they took horses with them on the raft?? One particular time, it started to rain heavily while they were gone. The rivers started to run high and the men didn't return when they had projected that they would. All of the family got very worried as they waited days more than they had planned. The night before the men returned, my granny's sister, Alice, and her were sitting on her porch, hoping that her husband would walk in at any moment. Granny said that Aunt Alice's house stood near the corner of the cemetery farthest from Macedonia Baptist Church and close to where the road going by the cemetery is. She was staying with Aunt Alice that night because she was afraid to stay by herself. It must have been early in their marriage because they didn't have any children yet. Granny said that as they sat there, a silvery mist formed over the grave yard and formed the shape of a woman in a long dress. She said that they both watched in silence as the figure walked along the edge of the grave yard and then disappeared. Needless to say they both went inside for the night because they were scared to death. The next morning, the men returned from their trip safely. Granny said that Aunt Alice claimed that the figure in the graveyard must have been telling them that everything was alright. Jennifer Harness Ayers Chattanooga, TN **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)