This is very interesting to me because my ancestor was a John Jacob Hevener who married Mary Mallow. I have him born 7 Aug 1744. Could they be one and the same? dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 ---------- >From: "Patricia W. Sheild" <sheildp@cfw.com> >To: VAHIGHLA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VAHIGHLA] Re: Crabbottom (Highland County) Query >Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2000, 8:25 AM > >It's the South Branch of the Potomac. The headwaters of the Potomac are >farther down the Valley. Tradition has it that Dividing Waters Farm (owned >by the Jacob Hevener family) in Hightown has a barn with a roof that sheds >water from one side that runs into the Jackson and then the James River and >out to sea, and from the other side it drains eventually into the Potomac. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: William A. Harrison <mrbil1@juno.com> >To: <VAHIGHLA-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:27 PM >Subject: [VAHIGHLA] Re: Crabbottom (Highland County) Query > > >> Greetings, >> >> I'm a bit far away to really know too much about Highland Co geography, >> but I recently bought a copy of the original 1847 Highland CO map, and >> while it does not show a town of Crabbottom, it does show an area of >> Crabbottom. >> >> It is located in the NW portion of the county and lies between the Little >> Mountain and the Back Creek Mountain. There is a waterway running from >> south to north through this valley, and it is called the South Branch. I >> would suppose that there might be more to the name but that's all that >> shows on this map. >> >> Hopefully someone can be more specific with their response to you. >> >> There could have been a town in the area by that name in 1869. ???? >> >> My Sims forefathers lived near Doe Hill, about 12 miles east of the >> Crabbottom (Valley?) from 1801 to 1886. >> >> mrbill William A. "Bill" Harrison <MRBIL1@JUNO.COM> Sponsor of the >> STONER and SCHNORF Family discussion lists on Rootsweb. >> >> >> ==== VAHIGHLA Mailing List ==== >> Highland County, Virginia >> Searchable archives for Rootsweb mail lists can be found at >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> > > >==== VAHIGHLA Mailing List ==== > Highland County, Virginia >Visit Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet >www.cyndislist.com >