Rob, Your note about caves is very interesting to me. Especially since yesterday, when I was told by a cousin that our ancestors supposedly scratched their names into a cave in Giles county and I told him I would see if I could find any TN cave explorers on internet. He said that the story is passed down in our LEE family that all the oldtimers in the family had scratched their names into a cave wall on the old LEE home place in Giles county. The first LEE in our line, John, came to Giles county about 1812 and supposedly had an estate named 'Vine Bower'. My cousin has done some deed research and thinks he knows where the land is and says that the people around there say that there are two caves there. Can you help me find any new or old cave explorers in the Giles county area? Thanks, Henry P Mayo (HPMayo@Juno.com, HPMayo@Prodigy.net for attachments) College Station, TX > >Good afternoon list on this happy raining July 3rd. Myself and >another, >Lynn Roebuck at pretzlgirl@cafes.net are researching Civil War >Saltpeter >caves and miners in the middle Tennessee area. We certainly would >appreciate information to add to our small data relative to any >saltpeter caves and or known miners. Our data base which is just a >bunch of references scattered all over in two houses is growing slowly >but surely. > >Throughout genealogy references, should you run across any, we >certainly >would appreciate them especially from the Bedford, Marshall, Giles, >Hickman and Maury County areas. > >Often when visiting these caves we locate names and dates smoked onto >the walls and ceilings. Many times, this is the only references we >have >to go on. One would be amazed at what we find in caves. Check out my >WEB Page below and be astounded. > >Thanking you in advance for your contributions and cooperation in >advance. > >Rob Robbins >Southport Chronic Cavers >Columbia, TN _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]