Margaret, Do you perhaps have any Willard family members entwined within your research of Odom, Owen, and Duggins? If so, please e-mail me directly at: [email protected] Thanks, Danny Nichols ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Furry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Fence > Ireland is covered with stone fences. In the west of Ireland many road > ways are single lane between the stone fences. Always looking a head for > traffic so as to take advantage of narrow turn outs. It must have been > back breaking work to clear those plots for pastures or crops. Ireland is > high on my list as one of the most beautiful places in this world. > > Margaret Furry > Odom,Owen,Ward,Lanier,Duggan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Danny Nichols" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:01 AM > Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Fence > > >> Kevin, >> The Scots and Irish were renown for their ability to work with stone. A >> good many of the chimneys for the older homes were built by such >> settlers. Stone masonry was a valued craft in their day. Many of the >> stone masons would travel from town to town engaged in chimney building. >> They may have done the same with fences as well. A good many of the >> fences were built also as a coordinated effort to remove the stones from >> the fields they plowed. The rocks would be carried out of the fields and >> tossed into stacks at the ends of the rows. Later they would come along >> and build fences from the rock to protect the fields and establish the >> boundary lines for their property. There always seemed to be multi >> purposes behind the endeavors of our ancestors. They were a very wise >> and industrious people. >> Danny Nichols >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kevin Morgan" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:50 AM >> Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Fence >> >> >>>I remember a woman who was writing in on her Murphys, >>> siad her James Murphy, who came from Ireland, was a >>> fence builder in Cannon County prior to the War. >>> Kevin >> >> >> ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== >> To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Cannon Co. list, send mail to.. >> [email protected] ,with subscribe or unsubscribe >> in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. >> >> ============================== >> Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >> Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >> >> > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > A complete Archive of past issues of this list may be seen at.. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNCANNON > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >