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“There is no one that wanders but what wants to wander further”

This post is about ancestors and relatives of the descendants of Dessie Kimsey Anderson. I’ve been working on understanding their migrations. Over and over our ancestors moved from one place to another. The Anderson/Kimsey families’ American story begins in Virginia. From there they moved to Georgia or North Carolina or Kentucky or Tennessee. Then they went to Missouri. The early ones went to Howard County, on the Missouri River, about in the middle of the state. Then after the Platte Purchase (1836), to that part of Missouri, or Clay County would have been available for settling before that. Not our ancestors, but many of their relatives moved on to Oregon or California. Our ancestors and their relatives tended to be on the early wave of such migrations, often traveling and living in the dangerous frontier.

Wilderness Road
Along the Wilderness Road

We do not have stories about our ancestors making any of these trips, but here is a story about a cousin of an ancestor of ours who migrated to similar places as our ancestors did.

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Samuel Crowley and the First Battle of the Revolutionary War

Samuel Crowley (~1741-1774), my fifth great grandfather, was killed in the first battle of the American Revolution at Point Pleasant, now West Virginia, on October 10, 1774. I chose Samuel Crowley for the first post because I read over and over that he was the first casualty of the Revolutonary War. However, after spending a long time trying to find evidence for this, I concluded that this was almost certainly not true (see below).

He was, however, killed on that day and his name is on the monument at the battle site. The battle in question is called Dunmore’s War or the Battle of Point Pleasant.).1.

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