Hi all, Boy, that felt good, releasing all that "stuff" about my MYERS clan of Sevier County, TN. Before you guys/gals read below I want to say that only those of us reasearing our familytree's would understand why we find these stories amusing and in now way insulting to our families. I only wish my great aunts would tell me their stories now, because when they're gone - they trail gets that much colder. I loved them all, and knowing them, good and bad, helps me to understand where I came from, not to mention helping me papertrail them a heck of alot better. But, if you're not into family research, they just don't understand, and probably never will. DIGGIN' UP BONES.... I'm humming this right now. Ok. You know you're line is interesting (best respectful work I can come up with in public:) when you find you're family noted in many stories at your local library. I live in Maryland and we have the Enoch Pratt LIbrary here w/ a very big holdings. A few books sit on their shelf under History/Tennessee and low and behold there are more then a few articles written on my great grandfather Andrew Jackson MYERS and his cousins. Here's a few more stories/mysteries from Sevier County, TN <--- most interesting history I've explored yet! A) My family swears we have an ancestor from Sevier County who was a "Bear Wrestler" (blushing) and his picture along w/the bear was all over Sevier County at one time, as a local tourist postcard. I'm shrugging 'cause I've yet to find one. B) Little Andy MYERS, the "Sheriff", probably self-appointed knowing my clan, was involved in a few "barn burnings". It had something to do with the GREGORY'S and TIPTON'S. And the families that started the "barn burnings" came by one of my MYERS home on X-mas day, played nice and at the end of the holi-day, guns were branded and someone got shot - dying just outside of front yard. (Clearing voice). C) My late grandfather (the one I never knew - honest) got his 1st cousin pregnant and it appears that's abt the time they booted his butt out of Sevier - dare say I blamed them. D) Not only did Little Andy MYERS arrest his cousin, but his own father Pleas for "moonshining". Now come on... but it's familylore. E) Old Little Andy MYERS had to live in the (I can't help but laugh, sorry) shed a good piece off behind the main home in Pigeon Forge on the farm, because he and Hettie couldn't stand one another as they grew into the golden years. They're not even buried at the same graveyard. I'm not making this stuff up, respectually speaking now. F) My MYERS swear that we are related, somehow, to the WALKINGSTICK'S and WOLFKILLER'S. I've tied in 1 WOLFKILLER, no WALKINGSTICKS though there are alot of them that did flee the "Trail of Tears" in TN territory making their way to hide in the Smokies... so anything is possible. G) When my grandfather, Ollie Jake MYERS was run out of Sevier (kinda laughing) he was abt 14 years of age, taking a job w/the railroad. He headed south to the Georgia border after meeting his new bride, Sara Margaret GARRETT, mother's maiden name BRADSHAW. I found SSI papers stating that he worked for a company called W.M. Ritter Lumber Co. 115 East Rich St., Columbus, OHIO whom I guessing was their main address because he worked in Hiawassee all of his life. Town county is just below Gathlinburg. I) One of my 2nd cousins, probably 2 generations back, bought land that belonged to another prominent Sevier County family but imagine the other famlies dismay, and anger, when they returned to see their ancestors graves only to find that this kin of mine, figuring that weren't related to him, plowed right over their graves - headstones have yet to be found. Whomever that was, I'm sorry - as a MYERS, you know ;) WALKER Lines: What I know of them. Great grandmother Hettie Caroline HUSKEY. Now, this is crazy. Her mother was Elizabeth Betty HUSKEY and as far as we know, she never married. Which wasn't uncommon even in the north, during the 1800's. She had a sister named Martha, this much I know. Both of them were the children of Hulda T. HATCHER and Lewis HUSKEY. This is well documented. Ok... Martha is recorded as the one married to John Frank WALKER. John Frank WALKER b. Jun 11, 1860 d. Jun 19, 1915 Wears Valley. (Alot of my lines were in Pigeon Forge or near there, as well). John Frank, son of Wm. Marion WALKER and Nancy Louisa CAYLOR Blount Co., TN???? Wm., son of John Culbertson WALKER & Mary Ann Polly MYERS ???? John Frank and Martha had a son named Harve Sr. WALKER and he had a son named Harve Jr. whom I hear works in a hardware store in downtown Sevierville. I actually spoke w/him last year but lost touch. He says his father was the 1/2 sibling to my great grandmother Hettie HUSKEY and they were very close. So.... I've asked my father's sisters... are you sure Elizabeth Betty HUSKEY, not Martha HUSKEY, was Hettie's mother, and they are fairly adament that she was, that they remember meeting her as children and they called her "Betty". I dunno... Does anyone out here know what "Betty" is a possible "NICKNAME" for? TRUE STORY (my part anyway). I enter northern Georgia at the age of 19. All alone, fresh off of a train from Baltimore, against my maternal grandparents wishes (I was head strong) to meet my MYERS for the 1st time since a child. I traveled all over this great country of ours as a child but w/my grandparents, never alone! Big step. My paternal grandmother, whom I had never met, was in a Georgia hospital having eye surgery - experiemental, w/hopes she'd see. And the moment I entered the hospital room she could see and she swore I was some great aunt from way back that had super natural (I'm not making this up) powers - in other words, they all swore I looked like one of the "witches" in our line. Honest, I couldn't make this up. Supposedly, some of those Smoky Mtn kin folks, though they didn't practice this, they were exteremly superstistious. I've read about it here and there. At the same time I entered the hospital room the nurses were freaking. Someone had given my grandmother a flower, have long since forgotten the name of it, but it only blooms every 100 years or so, if that. Well, of course, my luck, it bloomed as I was entering the room. When I returned home from this trip, my family was calling to Maryland, to my grandparents telling them that her eye sight left here, again, just after I left GA and the bloom withered... hmmm... Chrystie MYERS A Northern Gal, but Southern blood runs in my veins...