tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989769941716521546.post2247952363954373588..comments2012-01-21T12:52:47.541-06:00Doug Hibbardhttps://profiles.google.com/101009642729338226188noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989769941716521546.post-8571905850085715972012-01-21T12:52:47.541-06:002012-01-21T12:52:47.541-06:00Doug: I thoroughly enjoyed the little essay about your Great Grandfather to the 4th power. One of mine was a preacher in Ala and made Holcomb's History of Ala. Bapts. in 1840. He was Holland Middleton, and He might have also been one of the two executors of the Will of Daniel Marshall in 1781 (?)(O yes, a cousin joined the DAR on the base of Elder Middleton's service in the American Revolution. Another relative was a Craig, and one of my friends was a direct descendant of Eljah Craig who helped secure religious liberty in Va. and who also developed the process for making Bourbon in Ky. I understand the Distillers erected a statue to that Baptist Preacher. Life is funny. On the other hand my paternal Great Grandfather was a cowboy and gunman, went up and down the Chism Trail 4-5 times, worked for Jesse James on a ranch in New Mexico and said Billy the Kid rode into his camp one night and said "Pat Garrett shot the twon drunk two weeks before in order to get him off the hook. Great Grandpa, "Jenks" Willingham use to ride up to Tascosa, Tx. to seek Cape W., the famous law officer, a relative. Louis L'amour showed his lack of appreciation for my buying and reading his western novels for more than 30 years by dying the very week end that I found out all that stuff about my Great Grandfather. No one ever said life was fair. Another ancestor was a 2nd Lt. in the Va. Militia and was in the battle of Guilford Ct. House (now in Greensboro). I visited that battlefield the first year or two I was in NC (72-73) and wondered if I had any relatives in it (might have had whole families, Kemps, Bankstons, Craigs, Willinghams, Phipps, Middletons, to mention a few)Dr. James Willinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09813835260250606422noreply@blogger.com