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Back and forth they traveled, settling here and there, looking for work or looking for rich soil to grow their crops, I trace my elders through history, by census records, tax lists, military documents, and I visit old lost cemeteries to photograph their tombstones to learn more about them.
They are included in many old books about a states' history or early pioneers and other family books like Wagon Tracks by Fenn, Stephens Ancestry by Clyde, Sketches by Reverend Bozeman, Milo's Custer's stories of Miller in Rockingham, Green River KY Families, Cochran Clan, Indiana History included Coonfield and Clark, Barbour County History includes Fenn and the Indians,
History of Muhlenburg included Little and Handley, on and on there is documentation, which can be followed by census record study which gives names and ages of family members, and church records of the old days and archives of courthouses reveal important data.
Much is written and speculated about our Martin Weatherford and his wife Mary half blood leaving Virginia to own a huge plantation in Georgia, but he had fought for the British, and was very outspoken and soon banned from the State and moved to the Bahamas, but their son Charles, also left his family in VA to marry Sehoy in Alabama and have a son who led the Redsticks in the Creek War. Charles may have left 4 children behind in VA including Catherine Weatherford who married John Wright in 1811.
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