This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JACKSON, REYNOLDS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jhB.2ACI/250 Message Board Post: We found an old letter written to my great-grandfather, W. Andy Jackson, by his cousin Minnie Jackson from Toone, TN in which she mentions that 700 horses died in Hardeman County that spring. The date on the letter is May 16, 1897. Does anyone know anything about this -- what may have happened to so many horses?