Posted on: Sumner Co. Tn Queries Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Sumner/12004 Surname: RIPPY, ROALIN, STONE, KEY, LOVE, SULLIVAN, BROWN, HAULIE, MOODY, GANT, WIX ------------------------- My GGGGparents settled in Sumner Co. One of the stories said that Sugar GROVE TN was filled with Sugar Maples and that was a great asset to the community. My Uncle Loyd WIX went to Earlington KY to be Coal Miner and I don't know when the mines opened there, but I do know that there was a shaft sunk in Odin, Marion Co, IL in the years between 1881-1900 cause some of my GGDad William Morgan Rippy's brothers went there to become coal miners. I have read accounts that said the reason for migration was that the government could not pay the military soldiers so they granted them land whenver they wanted to open up a new territory and that is why the migration also I would think people followed the river ways because of game and water and all and they could travel on the water quite easily, also. The Ohio and Mississippi and all those were ways of traveling to explore new land, etc. Sometimes I have often thought that maybe the soldiers during wars saw places that they liked while in battle and decided to migrate there after the wars, etc. but it was probably the more practical reason that they were granted lands! I have an Isabell Beatrice HANNER (1905-1981) Sugar Grove, Sumner Co TN that married a Clarence Arthur Evans SMITH. She was the daughter of Sallie Davis RIPPY (1875-1928) Sumner TN; who married Joseph Allen HANNER (1858-1944) She was the d/o Matthew W RIPPY (1849-1924) TN and Martha Ann CARTER (1849-1931) and Gd/o Elvis Jefferson RIPPY (1811-1885), my Wagon Train Jesse's son. I have a Roy RIPPY who married a Bessie SMITH in our tree, also. LOVE and blessings, Patti Ann RIPPY HAIR