HAPPYDI@aol.com wrote: > Family lore is that my BOYKIN family was instrumental in getting the RR into > Madison/Crockett/Gibson Co. But, the story stops there. Which Boykins and > how instrumental goes unanswered. Can anyone enlighten me? > Phil Di Matteo Phil, I can't help you on your specifics, however, according to Charles Edmundson in his family history book called "Colonists and Pioneers," page 25, he tells of a Robert Tinkle who owned the 1000 acre track of land where Rutherford now sets. He traded some land, I've heard 500 acres, to the Railroad to guarantee that the RR would pass through his land and not near Pond Hill as originally planned. Mr Edmundson saids, "It was a good thing for my relatives, but a sad day for the population of Rutherford. The railroad was routed just at the edge of the river bottom, ideal for mosquitoes and malaria, whereas Pond Hill was on an upland where the mosquitoes would have been far less pestilential. As a boy I myself paid the price with recurrent bouts of malaria and the ingurgitation of endless capsules of quinine." I'm sure several folks and/or events help persquade the routing or some other aspect of the railroads through Gibson Co. I just thought folks might be interested in this. Take care everyone, Eddy G. Clark