I am replying to the message that was sent below from Salyers. Please contact me at [email protected] Thanks! anita ----- Original Message ----- From: Salyers <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Silas Easterling > Gene are you related to the Rameys in Wise Co,? Most are gone from there now > tho.I have a web page of a Baker Family that ties in with the Rameys from > Wise Co. Let me know > Hi, I'm connected to some Baker's of Wise Co. VA. Didema Baker, born about 1839, daughter of James Baker and Nancy Triplett. Didema married Archibald 'Arch' Hunsucker. I would be interested in knowing if this ties in with your Baker's. I haven't been able to get back any further than James Baker. I look forward to hearing back from you. take care, anita

Virginia Star Dec. 6, 2000 page 5 Daniel Boone Trail Marker Restored Carters Fort Chapter honored Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kern of Duffield for recovering and restoring a historical mark that marks the famous Daniel Boone Trail which was originally placed in Duffield by the Virginia Daughters prior to 1932. The marker was partially buried with about one foot protruding out of the ground. The Kern family became concerned a historical marker was in such bad state of repairs and wanted to restore it. Seeking the help and support of family members, friends, highway department and DAR members, they began restoration of the marker and erection of the monument at their own expense. Those honored at the rededication ceremony were Fred and Fay Kern, Jerry Tate (who furnished the stone and labor), Jeff Kern, Derick and Melinda Kern, David and Colleen Hurd, Taryn Hurd, Dan and Rose Ketly, Carl Ketly, Benny Spivey, Dole Bishop and Samuel Young. The restored monument sits about 1000 feet south of it's original location. The monument is located at the highway intersection of Route 856 and US 23 at Duffield. Provided by Carters Fort Chapter DAR. In reguards to a statement made over the site, how beautiful Scott County is, I agree 150%. I feel in love with Scott Co. my first trip back. Thank you Jean Brand

Ok, found it in my paper: Virginia Star Published each Wednesday $25.00 per year in Scott Co. and adjoining counties $30.00 per year in other areas. telephone office: 540-386-6300 fax 540-386-2353 103 E. Jackson St Suite 1 or P.O. Box 218 Gate City, VA 24251 Happy Holidays Jean Brand Fresno CA

My grandmother gets that newspaper. I'll have to check it out on Monday when I'm at her house for Christmas. Have you ever been to Scott County? The first time I was there I joked that Daniel Boone must have gotten lost a lot while in VA because it seems like every road is the "Daniel Boone Memorial Trail" :-) There's a lot of history in that beautiful corner of the world. I have many pictures of the mountains and of houses from the last time I was there seven years ago. Hopefully I'll be able to go back next October for the family reunion! BTW, hello to all, I'm new to this list and to Genealogy. Sabrina Chicago, IL -----Original Message----- From: Jean Lewellen Brand [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VASCOTT-] Daniel Boone Happy Holidays list, I subscribe to the Virginia Star newspaper from Gate City, Scott Co., VA. thanks to my cousin Jean Pierson. The last one I recd had a article on finding an old marker for Daniel Boone trail from 1930s there in Duffield. How a group restored it, etc. It makes me wonder just how much history is buried there in Scott Co., VA. The paper prints all the obits, I find it most interesting how they print the family connections. Now they know how to write a obit. One might think about subscribing to the paper or your local paper you are searching. Happy Holidays Jean Fresno CA ==== VASCOTT Mailing List ==== ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Jean, where are your MULLINS' from? Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Lewellen Brand <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: [VASCOTT-] Happy Hoildays > Good morning List, > > I have been very busy typing in more family history I have found and recd on my line from Scott CO., VA to Rockcastle Co., KY. About another 2000 names with facts. That's why I haven't been on line much. After merging my files I found many more to boot connecting: surnames are Mullins, Abney, Snowder, Barnett (William L. Barnett family and James Barnett,Sr family), Philbeck, Baker, Morris just to name a few. > > Also Jean Pierson has our new book ready for orders. It's our Pierson family there in Scott CO., VA. You may contact her at: > Jean Pierson > 104 Delrose > Weber City, VA > 540-386-7858 > > Happy Holidays to all, your a great list and proud to be apart of it. > > Jean Brand > Fresno CA > > > > > ==== VASCOTT Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Get Free Access to over 900 million names from Dec 7 until Dec 21!http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/freeaccess.htm?sourcecode=736 > >

This true story has nothing to do with Scott Co., VA, but it's on my dad's line (Lewellen/Reed) and I want to share it with you. I found this a few years back in an old newspaper down in NM. This man was my great uncle fborn TN, helping settle the "wild west". Thanks for letting me share. Going back to Fresno this morning and get things ready for Christmas eve and all the family. Then Christmas Day I hope to walk an old cemetery near us where my father is buried. What a way to spend Christmas! Just last week I found another family member Dorothy Malicoat Cooper's grave in the next county over from us. She was the g-gd of Sarah Jane Barnett (born in Scott CO., VA) and Fanteroy M. Malicoat. Happy Holidays, Jean Brand Fresno, CA [email protected] & [email protected] Page 5 1938 Progress Edition The Daily Current Carlsbad, New Mexico Bad Shell and Fact That He Picked Up Wrong Gun Saved Rancher From Killers. Columbus Lewellen had no premonition of danger as he swung down a Texas canyon trail late one February evening in 1894, humming a carefree cowboy tune to the rolling rhythm of his blooded horse's easy lope. Lewellen had every reason to be happy. Times were good, pasture was abundant. His herd had prospered and he was on the way to being one of the West's cattle barons. He thought of his family back at the ranch house. They would be spared the hardships he had experienced as a lad in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky, he told himself. The sun was hanging low in the west as he turned down the trail leading to his partner's home. He had been sent word that the water supply had dried in a pasture where he kept a herd of fine horses. He would have to hurry to change them to another pasture and get home before night, so he spurred his horse. Long shadows were creeping across the valley, golden shades of light slanting upward through the boughs of the sleepy cottonwoods. Silhouetted against the plummeting red dics of the sun was form of his partner's wife. She appeared 15 feet tall, "that's funny," thought Lewellen. She's a mile away yet I can see her plain as day and she looks like a giant. Mirages were not unusual in western Texas, but they were not seen at sunset. The picture was rather ghostly, and it made Lewellen feel uneasy. Mechanically, he caught up his rifle from the saddle holster. His horse snorted, directing his attention to the trail in front of him. There stood the menacing form of his partner, his long booted legs planted on either side of the trail, the nuzzle of a six gun leveled at Lewellen's heart. "Stop where you are, Lewellen," barked the partner. "I might as well tell you now, that story of the water drying up was a gag. I just wanted to get you here to kill you. We've been stealing your stock for months and you were too stupid to know it. Now I am going to kill you and take the rest of them." He patted the barrel of his revolver and grinned. "You ready to die, Lewellen?" Further down the valley, a shot split the still air of the evening. A rifle ball whined close to Lewellen's horse, ripped through the leaves behind him. The frightened animal reared high into the air throwing Lewellen sideways, but his gun was leveled on the figure in the trail and when it spoke, the partner slumped to the ground, his dead fingers pressed hard on a trigger that had clicked on a worthless shell. "My God, don't kill me," wailed a frantic voice as a man jumped from behind a bush and kneeled at the feet of Lewellen's horse begging for his life. He was safe, for Lewellen had sent his last bullet through the heart of the partner who had tried to kill him for what cattle he had not already stolen and marketed. Two happy coincidences had saved Lewellen's life. One of the cattle thief friends of his partner had filed the trigger on his rifle so it would not stay cocked. His adversaries thought, with a jimmied rifle, Lewellen did not have a chance to shoot. His partner's wife had told the thieves that they had better not attack Lewellen, if they valued their lives, for he was a dead shot. "If you miss, you're dead," she told them, "for Lewellen doesn't miss". So when the cattle thief saw what happened in the first attempt on Lewellen's life, he went insane with fear. He did not know Lewellen's empty rifle just then was a harmless as a pop gun. That was Lewellen's first and last gunfight, but it cost him his last cent. A gang of nine cattle thieved had driven more than $100,000.00 worth of his cattle off to market. With the aid of the faithless partner, whom Lewellen had staked, and who owed him $3,000.00 the job had been easy. What he had left, he spent in proving to the court that he shot in self defense. With his family and what he salvaged from the wreckage, he moved to Black River in 1894, just across from Blue Springs, where he established a cattle ranch, stocked with the remnants of several old herds. Lewellen soon had a start again in the cattle business, but he never again regained the position he lost when his ungrateful partner joined with thieves to rob him of his herds he had spent many fruitful years in building up. Today, at 81, he is still active as caretaker of the Carlsbad Library and Museum. Mrs Lewellen and their youngest son, Lee, born in Carlsbad, are the only members of a large family who still live here. The had five children. When he is caught up with his work at the library, Lewellen likes to tamp his well-seasoned pipe full of tobacco and dream of the romantic days of the Old West. Through the lazy curling spirals of pipe smoke , he looks with tired eyes back through half a century at the days when Billy the Kid, the James boys and many another daring gunmen spilled blood across the pages of frontier history. If you can catch him in the right mood and isn't too busy, Lewellen will tell you many a hair-raising story of the days when men lived by the law of the six gun, and men survived because they were more rugged then the elements and quicker on the draw than other men. "Men were honest in the very early days," said Lewellen. "There was a time when a traveler could stop at a ranch house or a cowboy camp on the way home from market, throw his money belt on the ground as he slept, knowing it was safe there as if the money were in the bank. Men didn't steal in those days. It was man against the wilderness and men trusted each other." "But when this cattle stealing started, the west got bloody. There was peace on the ranges until many men came west to seek their fortunes - when boom towns mushroomed up and adventures started blazing and chapters of lawlessness were written into the history of the west."

Happy Holidays list, I subscribe to the Virginia Star newspaper from Gate City, Scott Co., VA. thanks to my cousin Jean Pierson. The last one I recd had a article on finding an old marker for Daniel Boone trail from 1930s there in Duffield. How a group restored it, etc. It makes me wonder just how much history is buried there in Scott Co., VA. The paper prints all the obits, I find it most interesting how they print the family connections. Now they know how to write a obit. One might think about subscribing to the paper or your local paper you are searching. Happy Holidays Jean Fresno CA

Good morning List, I have been very busy typing in more family history I have found and recd on my line from Scott CO., VA to Rockcastle Co., KY. About another 2000 names with facts. That's why I haven't been on line much. After merging my files I found many more to boot connecting: surnames are Mullins, Abney, Snowder, Barnett (William L. Barnett family and James Barnett,Sr family), Philbeck, Baker, Morris just to name a few. Also Jean Pierson has our new book ready for orders. It's our Pierson family there in Scott CO., VA. You may contact her at: Jean Pierson 104 Delrose Weber City, VA 540-386-7858 Happy Holidays to all, your a great list and proud to be apart of it. Jean Brand Fresno CA

Dear Twanda, Thank you so very much for your timely prayer. I just lost my dear mother Dec. 14th. at age 82, she would have been 83 in February. May you and your loved ones have a blessed holiday season and a very good new year. Sarah Ann

Good Morning and I hope the sun is shining where you are today. I am sending this as you are on my mind today and I want to issue a prayer that God, Your Creator, Your Buddha, Your Allah whomever you worship as the Supreme Being will hear and hold you in His loving arms. I pray that your accomplishments of the past year will give you great satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment in the coming year. I pray that your confidences that you bestowed upon a dear friend will never be uttered to another living soul. I pray that those confidences will be kept and your faith in them will stand strong. I pray that you will not suffer under the hand of Idle gossip and slander. I pray that your wealth will grow and increase steadily. I pray that your health will be good and remain so. I pray that your failures of the past year will leave your thoughts and never be brought to mind. I pray that your losses in the past year will remain but not cause you any more pain, but that you will remember the fond memories of those that have passed. I pray that the ones that betrayed you in the past will be forgiven and you can remember the good times most. I pray most of all that these Holidays will instill in you the true meaning of the Season and that the love and caring along with unity be utmost in your thoughts. I pray that you will grow closer to your reason for living, and that any loneliness you have suffered will be replaced with only happiness and contentment. Be safe this season and know that I am holding you close. Sending Big Huge Hugs Love you!Love you!Love you! Twanda

I am looking for any info. on Henry Collins and Laura Spears. They were married in Scott Co. in 1901. Her parent are listed as A. J. & M. E. She is 16 and he is 21 when they were married. I am new to the list and hope someone might have some info. Any and all leads appreciated. Thanks, Bev [email protected]

Hello All, Please let me apologize for the additional email tonight. I, as a list admin, try to abstain from sending "extra" email. In this case I think it is justified. Through the generosity of the Wise County Historical Society and the editor ((Ms. Rhonda Robertson) of their publication, the "Appalachian Quarterly", I have been given permission to post the first five parts of the "Gateway to the West" series as well as the sixth part I posted tonight. I felt that the information was of such importance to potential researchers that I have worked non-stop since getting the permission at 11 pm tonight, to create an index page, convert the articles to HTML format and get them posted tonight. They are ready for public viewing! I appreciate your comments or suggestions. Once again, I apologize to anyone upset by the extra email. <A HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw">Hills and Hollers index page</A> (for AOL users) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw Sincerely, Wayne Duncan Hills and Hollers Webmaster List Admin for: SWVA-NETN-SEKY-CHAT-L BIBLE-RECORDS-L MIGRATION-PATTERNS-L STATE-HISTORICAL-MARKERS-L

Hello all: I have just concluded transcribing the first two sections of a wonderful article about Lee County and its mineral assets. The article is entitled "Gateway to the West" and was published in the December 2000 edition of the Appalachian Quarterly Magazine published by the Wise County Historical Society. I hope to finish the transcription of a few more articles this weekend. I would highly recommend that anyone researching family lines in this area subscribe to the magazine. This is my very first copy and I now know more about my home county then I ever imagined possible. It is my hope that I can continue to transcribe highlight articles from each edition and add them to the collection on the website. If anyone reading this email has information about any of the Southwestern VA counties and the surrounding areas of TN, KY, and NC and wants their information posted on the web, please contact me. I'll add it at no cost to you! If you have the information already in a digital format, that makes transition to the web even easier. I'm having a blast being the web cooridnator for the Genealogical Society. I am learning more and more each day. I hope you will take the time to visit the site and let me know how you like it and any suggestions for making it better. The starting index page is located at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw Sincerely, Wayne Duncan List Admin for SWVA-NETN-SEKY-CHAT-L (and others) State Coordinator Liaison THE USGENWEB CENSUS PROJECT (A non-profit, for-public benefit corporation)

Hello List! Does anyone have access to the 1880 Scott Co Census? I would appreciate a look-up for the name Rhode or Rhodes. Looking for a child born around that time named Rosa. Thanks so much! Joyce <freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pitshome> _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html

In a message dated 12/9/00 12:34:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Bob, I'm so glad to read someone elses research besides my own. Keep it coming Jean Brand

See Nancy Wright Bays site on Talt Hall: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2839/talt.html and other characters of the area http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2839/ pat At 04:12 PM 12/09/2000 -0500, Carl/Doris Bridges wrote: >Hello, >Would like to throw this info in about TALT HALL. >My grandmother got married in 1890 at a very young age. She went to this >hanging >of TALT HALL. She died in 1945 but not before she had related all this >story to >her daughter, my mother. I have heard this story over and over and had always >felt it was true. My grandmother was Susan Jane Culbertson b. Wise County >VA in >the Gladeville district and I was also. >Thanks for letting me tell this. >Doris

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Hello, Would like to throw this info in about TALT HALL. My grandmother got married in 1890 at a very young age. She went to this hanging of TALT HALL. She died in 1945 but not before she had related all this story to her daughter, my mother. I have heard this story over and over and had always felt it was true. My grandmother was Susan Jane Culbertson b. Wise County VA in the Gladeville district and I was also. Thanks for letting me tell this. Doris [email protected] wrote:

Hello All Hiltons, Bob Hilton here. Here is some information I just found on my first cousin twice removed - Frank C. Hilton, born: October 12, 1908 in Pittsburgh, PA, son of Isaac S. Hilton and grandson of John F.(Napper) Hilton born April 4, 1850, died: 1915 of Norton, Virginia. The book "Hiltons of Southwest Virginia reported that Frank C. Hilton was the Commander in Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and possibly ran for Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania. I have confirmed that he was in fact the Commander in Chief of the Veterans of Foriegn Wars during 1951 - 1952. I have not yet confirmed the report of running for Lt. Governor. Information that I have uncovered so far at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is as follows: Frank C. Hilton was appointed to the cabinet level post of Secretary of Properties and Supplies by the democratic Governor Milton J. Shapp, term: 1971 - 1979. In 1975 - 1976 Frank C. Hilton was investigated for charges of bribery and kick backs involved in an insurance scandal. Mr. Hilton was indicted and found guilty of the federal charges of briebery, and extorsion and sentence to 1 to 5 years in Federal Prison. Sometime in 1976 a Federal Judge reduced Frank C. Hilton's sentence to 1 year without parol. Mr Hilton was order to serve his sentence at this time. I have asked that the State Archives make Xerox copies of all the background information in the Department of Justice file that I viewed. I will at that time be able to provide you all with more exact dates. It is not readily obtainable by the information I have viewed whether this incident was politically instigated or whether Frank C. Hilton with forethought broke the law. The newpaper articles that I have read in this file seem to lean both ways. Whichever may be the case this is now history. At the time of this incident Frank C. Hilton was as reported in the newspaper articles 66 years of age. I believe this case was being investigate for a year prior to 1975. I do not at this time have any information on Frank C. Hilton after this period. The book "Hiltons of Scott County Virgina also reports that my great-great uncle Enos (Enoch) Hilton was shot an killed by Talt Hall. I have confirm this and in fact found the following song that had been written about Talt Hall and the Hilton incident by a 10 year old boy named Uriah N. Web in 1892. "Old Talt Hall" Come all you fathers and mothers, Brothers and sister all. I'll relate to you a story, The story of old Talt Hall. He's breaking up our country And trying to kill us all. He shot and killed Frank Slayers, Was the commencement of it all. He left his ol' Kentucky Virginia for to roam, Leaving his friends and loved ones Back in his Beaver Creek home. He roamed the streets of Wise and Norton Through the summer and the fall. He met with Enos Hilton, And poor Enos had to fall. The posse hunted for him Through valley, hill, and dale. They found him down in Memphis, And he had to go to jail. They arrested him in Tennessee. They brought him to Gladeville jail, Without any friends or relations, No one to go his bail. They built the platform, boys, Nearby the jailhouse side. He walked out on it and wrung his hands and cried, "If I hadn't killed Enos Hilton, I wouldn't have to die." Well guess I had better close for now. I will send more info as I get it. Bob

I am looking for information on my grand father Ambrose Taylor. He lived in Scott County Virginia around the 1870's-1919 era. The stories we have been told was he was the town Marshal or sheriff for Scott County. I was wondering if anyone has came across any documentation of this? Or his name at all on records. He could have went by Ambrose Christopher Taylor or Christopher Ambrose Taylor, we have conflicting documents on the first two names, even though his civil war pension and marriage licience has Ambrose Christopher Taylor. Any help would be appreciated. Karen Taylor