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AL to TX Migrations

AL to TX Migrations

Deborah Smith (View posts)
Posted: 11 Jun 2004 12:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
One of my family lines traveled from AL to TX by going overland by wagon to MS and LA and then downriver to New Orleans (where some of their things were stolen). Some of them then traveled by boat to Galveston, and some to Indianola, where they apparently purchased wagons and mules (again) and headed inland to western Austin County, TX, where they first settled in 1854. I guess I never quite understood why they didn't travel by sea the entire way, but I've discovered they had relatives in MS and maybe the Gulf route was too dangerous. Also, I think they might have wanted to travel entirely overland, but the swampy regions of LA might have been too difficult and dangerous, and going north around the swamps might have been too long a route. There must have been a TX to LA land route, though, because my husband's ggg grandfather led a herd of cattle from Burnet County, TX to New Orleans, LA in the early 1850's, and died there in the region of yellow fever.

Re: AL to TX Migrations

Deborah Smith (View posts)
Posted: 11 Jun 2004 12:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
correction: I meant this to be a reply to Richard Ballard's post of Sept, 2003.

Re: AL to TX Migrations

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 7:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
What surnames are connected to story? Sounds very similar to stories I have in my family
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