I, too, have often wondered why our ancestors LEFT Hardin Co. Tn..??? My paternal great-grand-parents, William P. CRABB and wife Elizabeth HORNe were there 1870 and several children. They left and headed for Prentiss Co. MS for some reason. Think a brother of Wm;s was already there in Tishomingo Co. Ms and evidently encouraged members of family to head for MS.....then a bunch of my family left MS later and came to Tx. Good farm land in Hardin Co. Tn.????? Sorry, Nancy, I cannot help you with your WADE. Good luck. Mary At 08:31 AM 2/7/99 -0500, Nancy Anderson wrote: >Does anyone have a reason why families would pick up and leave Hardin Co. >Tenn. in the early 1850s. I have my great great grand father David Hampton >Wade and family, there were about 20 of them men, woman and children, his >brother-in-law William Moseley and famliy, They were all in Hardin >Co.1850s and travled to Wright Co. Mo.1854. Also a family named Courtney, >showed up in Wright Co. Mo.1860 and they were in Hardin Co. 1850. David >Hampton Wades daughter Nymphia Caroline, (my great grand mother )first >husband was a Courtney, but we do not have his first name. > >"Nancy Hall Anderson" > nancyranderson@worldnet.att.net >