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From: "Charles A. Wyly" <>
Subject: Re: Scotch-Irish migration into Tennessee
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:45:09 -0600


Hi,
1. They may have floated down the Ohio Riover from West Virginia or
states north and east of West Virginia, except for the periods of strife
when the Spanish closed the river route.
2. Cumberland Gap was the widest and easiest pass, but out of the way
for those,to the northeast.
3. At the Ramsey Historic House near the Lebanon Presbyterian Church
ruins and cemetery at the River forks in the Holston River , The guides
there said the Scottish Masons who Dr. Ramsey's dad brought from
Scotland to build his Swan Pond 2 story home, abt 1800 or before -- The
stonemasons and Jeremiah Jack and others came on an Indian trail so
narrow the led pack mules single file.
4. Those in North Alabama thought they were in Tennessee until the
State line was re surveyed, causing the Tennesse River to cut across
Alabama in Choctaw Country.

In Erath County, Texas today there are Wood and Woods families- also in
Waco.

I see by your E mail name you have Basque roots. So do I , through 6 term
Governor of Tennessee and Rev. War Col. John Sevier. The name was
changed to Sevier in England after the Governor's great Grandad, Phillip
D'Xavier , brother to St. Francis Xavier of Navarre left Paris for
England after being warned that his Uncle Henry IV , to- be King of
France, planned the St, Bartholemew's day Massacre of all possible
Hugenot kin as a threat to his future throne. throne. Nancy Sevier
Madden and Cora Bailes Sevier went to the Pamplona Library and found the
Basque Records- recordetd in the outlawed Basque language and one old
Spanish Priest read the records to them.

Acording to family notes, Col. Sevier's dad Valentine (Vol-in-tin) Sevier
lived 1699 to 1803.

Take care,
Charles A. Wyly

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:55:28 -0800 (PST) "Mark B." <>
writes:
> Dear List Members,
> This is my first posting to the list, and I was
> wondering if anyone could help me. I've been
> trying--in vain--to trace the roots of my ggrandfather
> William Wood, killed while still young in a mining
> accident in north Alabama in the late 1890's. In
> exploring all possible paths (literally) of research,
> it occured to me that the family preserves a memory
> that William Wood was of Scotch-Irish descent. His
> family eventually ended up in Tennessee, from where he
> moved to north Alabama, probably in the 1880's. Would
> anyone on the list be aware of migration routes taken
> by Scotch-Irish settlers into Tennessee? Is anyone
> aware of Scotch-Irish settlements along such a route
> in Tennessee? If I can narrow my search to a specific
> area in Tennessee, I may yet find the forebears of
> William Wood. Many thanks,
> --Mark in Mobile, AL
>
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