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<blockquote data-quote="Clodhopper" data-source="post: 1402704" data-attributes="member: 24993"><p>Both sides of the family pretty much got off the boat in Maryland and Virginia and migrated in a more or less westward direction, as my genealogist great uncle put it, hill-hopped west. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois. I recently viewed an Ancestry.com story which claims that most people in this nation moved East to West, as opposed to North to South and vice versa. We certainly followed that movement.</p><p></p><p>More recently, my great grandpa was a Southern Railroad man. Born in Pike County, IN, his work took him to St. Louis, back to Lyles Station Indiana, a town settled by freed slaves. Grandpa and his brothers rode a mule cart into Princeton to school, as the school at Lyles was black only. He was then transferred to Illinois, where Grandpa and one brother married and stayed, the rest followed work to cities or settled back in Gibson County, IN.</p><p></p><p>Great Grandpa didn't have much to do with his Pike Co. family. When asked why, he said "they're a bunch of outlaws", this coming from a man who ran a still in his younger days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clodhopper, post: 1402704, member: 24993"] Both sides of the family pretty much got off the boat in Maryland and Virginia and migrated in a more or less westward direction, as my genealogist great uncle put it, hill-hopped west. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois. I recently viewed an Ancestry.com story which claims that most people in this nation moved East to West, as opposed to North to South and vice versa. We certainly followed that movement. More recently, my great grandpa was a Southern Railroad man. Born in Pike County, IN, his work took him to St. Louis, back to Lyles Station Indiana, a town settled by freed slaves. Grandpa and his brothers rode a mule cart into Princeton to school, as the school at Lyles was black only. He was then transferred to Illinois, where Grandpa and one brother married and stayed, the rest followed work to cities or settled back in Gibson County, IN. Great Grandpa didn't have much to do with his Pike Co. family. When asked why, he said "they're a bunch of outlaws", this coming from a man who ran a still in his younger days. [/QUOTE]
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