How far back can you trace your family?

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Originally Posted by Armistead

Here's a few pics I took this weekend. After driving for a few hours up and down numerous dirt roads we found the 1800's grave site. About 8 years ago they sort of cleaned it out, removed 40 trees. The actual site goes deeper in the wood. Most the larger ones are marked with family names, but about 50-75 simple rock headstones, most belonging to slaves.


A few slave headstones


They're actually 3 family cemeteries on the total propery, one from the 1700's at the original cabin, the larger near the plantation{above pictures} and one from the early 1900's.

Good stuff. Did your forbear shoot at that wicked but inventive Scot, Maj. Ferguson, killed at King's Mtn.? I own a Ferguson rifle and Zane Gray wrote a book of the same title. Prefer my two-band Enfield and Colt Navy though. Perhaps I could march my 14 Tenn. brigade on that road... unpaved is easier on the feet than McAdamized especially on one of our too-real 20 milers with packs in the heat. We'd only hep o'selfs to a few ears o' corn!