Hello, I have been reading this migration conversation with much interest and now that Wilson County has been mentioned I thought I would add my husband's ancestors move to the mix, as it has always puzzled me. My husband's 3rd great-grandfather was Andrew Jackson Barker born 1834 in Wilson County, TN. He married Elvira Jemima Sanders/Saunders on January 4, 1854 in Wilson County, TN. Elvira was the daughter of Rhoderick and Drucilla/Priscilla Sanders/Saunders. This family lived in Wilson County until sometime between August 1860 and December 3, 1861. The 1860 census was taken in August and on December 3, 1861 Andrew Jackson Barker was enlisting in the army in Palmyra, Montgomery County, TN. I have found no evidence of any other family members being in the Montgomery County area at this time. So, why did Andrew all of a sudden move his family west over 100 miles? Was he trying to avoid the war and by the time he reached the Cumberland River decided there was no use and stopped and enlisted? Questions, Questions. Andrew fought at the battle of Fort Donelson and was wounded and sent home. A year later he was captured in Montgomery County and taken prisoner of war. He was put on the steamboat Mary Crane and taken to Vicksburg. Andrew survived and lived another 40 years in the Stewart County, TN. area. This Barker family has lived in the Stewart County/Houston County/Montgomery County area ever since. The property that my husband and I live on has been in the family for 5 generations. But why the initial more? In Christ, Melissa Barker Professional Genealogist Specializing in Specific Document Copying and In-Depth Research for Tennessee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherrie Paty Barber" <sherrieinfla@earthlink.net> To: <tncannon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:11 AM Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Migration out of Cannon County > My forefather's also lived in Cannon County (Wilson, Rutherford too). Why > did they leave? Dad is 90 and here's what he says......Tennessee was in > turmoil after the Civil War. It was brother against brother, men who > never > came home from war, farms left fallow if even tillable, gov't in disarray > and chaos all around. My own family was a part of a huge wagon train that > left Cannon County in about 1870 and finally settled in the Freestone > County, TX area. The family migration continued well in the 20th century. > Land was wide open "out west" and the southern sympathies were aplenty. > Families were large and to divide land in TN became challenging. Land was > more available and there was lots of it out west. > > I might also add that a degree of lawlessness continued in TN well into > the > 20th century. My grandparents both said that the Sheriff pretty much > stayed > in town and didn't venture out into the country much. Country folk took > care of their own. Also, Cannon County, to my knowledge, never raised a > Union Company to fight in the CW. Confederate sympathies were very strong > within the county. > > Sherrie Paty Barber > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Rhemann3566@aol.com> > To: <tncannon@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:05 AM > Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] TNCANNON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 109 > > >> With regards to migration of families from Cannon County - I read a book >> years ago on the subject of migration. One thing stuck with me - people >> who are >> comfortable with their circumstance don't tend to move. So I gather our >> ancestors were getting 'uncomfortable' with their environment. My Markum >> and >> Sullins families tended to have large families. The family of Charles >> Markum >> numbered twelve children, eleven surviving. Just after the 1900 census >> they all >> boarded a wagon to the nearest railroad and traveled by train to Falls >> County, >> Texas - just south of Waco. There they farmed and some continued the >> pattern >> brought from Tennessee - the sons stayed with the head of the family and >> helped on the farm. In this case, the youngest sons joined the war >> efforts and >> when they returned, they no longer wanted to farm. I've visited Cannon >> County, >> where my grandfather J.B.Markum was born. I wondered, too, why he and >> his >> parents left such a beautiful place. >> >> Kathleen Rheman >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's free at >> http://www.aol.com. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.5/812 - Release Date: 5/19/2007 > 1:52 PM >