Dan wrote. . . > I am sorry to disagree with friends. But the headwaters of the Elk are in > Pocahontas County near Slaty Fork. It travels through a portion of Randolph > and runs into Webster County at Whittaker Falls, almost the precise point of > the county line. I made that point, as well, except didn't "reply to all" and sent it to an individual. G-aunt Mary Rose Leary informed me once that the Elk began in Pocahontas Co. and how that river runs below and above the surface. My mother grew up fearful of "underground rivers," as her g-aunt Stella Rose Bonner lived near the "blue hole" of the Elk in the Mingo district of Randolph County. Aunt "Stellie" worried terribly about kids playing around that area (Anna Hogan Dodrill remembers well one of Aunt Stella's tizzies while children played there.) And the Old Field near the beginnings of the Elk is where Stella's mother's family, the Hannahs, came from. Autumn