This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lostancestors2 Surnames: Knick Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.pittsylvania/3311.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mary Lou, Thank you, I thought about it. I had a relative down there try to contact them but so far we have all (the paper employees as well, so far)had no luck especially since not having any specific date. My relative tried searching microfilm and it was just too much for her going through it all to locate at this point, especially since we know very little as to exact dates. She tried the best she could to help me but we don't have a lot to go on right now. We just know that a "Knick" woman was seriously injured and a man died in the accident and that there may have been another man or two in the vehicle and we don't know if they survived. We don't know if it was a single vehicle but we think it may have been. We think they may have been coming eastbound from the Martinsville area. The woman in the vehicle is no longer alive and no one right now seems to remember specifics. We found an old medical reference to the woman's past injuries from the accident. It was sometime between 1950 & 1955 as our broadest guess. My relative thinks it should have been cooler weather around 1950-52. We can't find anything yet in the time frame everyone first thought it would have been. Some relatives thought it might have been around Christmas time 1951-52. My Daddy remembers hearing about it and when I made a very quick emergency trip down recently he tried to show me where he had been show that it was when he was a kid. He seemed to think it was closer to Callahan's Hill from Brosville west of Danville limits. I guess I will just have to wait until I can get out of both school and work long enough to investigate it myself. I love finding needles in haystacks and I think this is what it is going to take. The paper and library have limited personnel resources so we will need to get as much as we can on our own first. I was hoping that if someone tragically lost a family member in that time frame they would not forget it. This accident is very important to establish a time line to help pin down a search area for a reported lost family member who may have been adopted, possibly illegally and may not know it. We again have nothing other than it was supposed to have been a male child from the Danville-Pittsylvania-Henry area in the very last of the 1940's to around mid 1950's. He may have had blonde hair from an unidentified picture that someone remembers from over twenty years ago, of course that picture is lost to us now, as are those who might have had the knowledge we seek. Stories have that the child was very sick and may have been given up to receive medical care some how. It is sad, we have practically nothing to go on at this point, except that three separate and independent indivduals have mentioned this male child's existance over the last 50 years at various times, but when questioned further no one knows anything further. One mention was as recently as this Fourth of July. This unknown male child was reportedly born to a Hazel Knick and has a sister who is sincerely and painfully searching for him or signs of his existence. She has searched before and found other sisters, now they want to find out if this rumored brother ever existed. The paper tried to help her locate her other parent many years ago, that article is what started my search for her, but right now I don't think we have enough for them to help yet. Even if she never knows her father, she wants to find any misisng siblings before they get too old to find each other. Thank you again for your suggestions, wish us luck and more helpful caring people such as yourself. Mary E. Wright Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.