Go West Young Man!

We left Phenix City, AL to start our journey back today. We started down the road to go back to Fort Mitchell to see if there was a phone number we could call to find out anymore information. We called the number and it connects to the Chattahoochee River Historical Society in Eufaula, AL. The lady there gave us a couple more phone numbers to try and get some more information. So we called one of the guys, who incidentally is a Professor at Columbia State University in GA and teaches on Creek culture He's even written a book or two. We got a hold of him but he couldn't talk right then.

So we went on our way to Eufaula, AL to the historical society to see if they had anything there. They did! Not a lot and nothing definitive, but it was enough for us to get a good idea. We are convinced that our family would've gone from Tallassee to Montgomery down to Mobile over to New Orleans and then up the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River and over to Oklahoma. We are now in Mobile, AL for the night and will head out on this same route for the next two days.

We did get back in touch with the professor who gave us information about the 1832 census to help find our family as far back as we can. We were very happy with how today went. This guy also gave us the name and number of the head of the history department at Auburn University which apparently holds a lot of the documents we would want to use. All we really wanted was a map, but today has gone above and beyond our expectations.