My great-grandfather, Tommie Lawson, had a sawmill "up the creek" from Stickleyville. I don't know when he started it--plus a logging business, but my father worked there in the 1920's. He showed me the area where the soil is still dead from being covered with sawmill dust for years. I imagine great-grandfather Thomas Lawson operated the sawmill and logging business for many years before my father helped. Great-grandfather died in 1931. His brother and his grandson both married a "Ward". SueBee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: [VALEE] Lee County Lumber Mills c1890 > Does anyone know of any lumber mills operating in Lee County in about 1890 > & > where in the county they were located? It is my understanding that my > ancestor, Nicati Martha Brown Ward (wife of Lexington Daniel "Lech" Ward) > died c1890 > while working as a cook at a lumber mill possibly in Lee County. In his > later > life Lech lived in Dryden but grew up in the Rocky Station area on > Lovelady > Ridge near the Mountain View Baptist Church above present Stickleyville. > My > family has no information as to where she was buried or what happened to > her. > It is a great mystery. Any help in resolving it would be most > appreciated. > Thanks, > Brenda Reed > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >