Ed Talbott <[email protected]> Tuesday, February 29, 2000 wrote > > Big Rock is where I grew up and now live about 2 miles from there. It's in > Buchanan County, Virginia just across from the Pike County, KY border. My > next-door neighbor was Paul Elswick and the entire area is loaded with > Elswicks. Hope this helps. Thanks, Ed. I understand the annual Elswick reunion is held on one of the ancestral homelands, and I hope to get there someday. My gggg-grandmother, Mary Elswick, was born 1741, two hundred years to the year before I, in 1941. Could you ask around and see if you can learn anything about the fiddle tune "Elsick's Farewell"? Seasoned Elswick researchers have traced the family to its seat in England, and I know they would like to know about the music. Thanks, Jemima > -----Original Message----- > From: Jemima Gee Morse [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 6:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAMONTGO] ELSICK'S FAREWELL > > Ed Marsh" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wonder if the famous Appalachian fiddle tune Elsick's > Farewell is > > about a member of this family? > > Let me know if you find out. Many of the Elswicks were in Pike > Co., Ky., and other areas of Appalachia. The family had an annual > reunion for years at a place called -- I think -- Big Rock in > West Virginia -- somewhere around Thompson Valley. >