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If we look hard enough, we might well find we're related somehow. It's like a treasure hunt. Somedays ya find dust, others, you strike Gold!
There's also some interesting patterns that emerge. I have talked to some 'allied' family members who are researching and we've put together a bit of a timeline sort of thing. It was interesting to me that there were so many members of the 15th Alabama buried in the cemetery where my 3GGGrands are buried. None of them were in the 15th. We think, and it's a pretty good thought, that most of these people were either related or lived close to others and after the war when they found they had no land or couldn't afford to keep it they traveled together. Some ended up staying or going to Baldwin County, Alabama. That's just next door. They came here because the lumber boom was getting fired up and there were so many mills around here that anyone could find a job. The business of boards pretty much took most of the wonderful yellow pine and they weren't into replanting in those days. Sometime in the late 1800's the boom happened in Mississippi and a few moved on to follow the work. Most stayed. It's so hard to fathom what the women went through. I do know that my GGGrands traveled with an allied line, the McNairs, when they came here by carts and wagons. My GGGrandmother carried cuttings from a rose she had gotten from her mother. That 'rose' we call 'Grandma's Rose' is running all over my fence and trellis in the yard. Everyone in the family has had their share of cuttings. Just an old pink tearose but it means a lot to us.
I go to work during the school year and look at the land the school sits on and try to see it as it was when my Grand's had cattle drives. That was the area the cattle grazed in. It was Free Range and they had a big roundup every year and drove the herd into Pensacola to the packing house. Just like the wild west.
None of these things would have been part of my family history had the South not stopped fighting. Interesting thought there.

Pam

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