Blood Ties

Perryville, Kentucky! The Chaplin River flows right through the town. One fork of the Chaplin is called Doctor's and there on a farm our own Charles and Sarah grew old.

The Chaplin River is a tributary of the Beech Fork of the Salt River, Kentucky.

The name comes from Captain Abraham Chapline, an early explorer of the area.^[1]

The river's headwaters begin on the knob edges of the Cumberland Plateau near Parksville, Kentucky and the Parksville Knob, flow in parallel with the Salt River proper through the hilly Eden Shale belt and ending at the Beech Fork of the Salt River near the town of Chaplin, KY. The river flows through the counties of Washington, Mercer, and Boyle.

The river flows through the middle of Perryville, the site of an 1862 American Civil War battle. The stream was a strategic natural resource used by both the Union and Confederate armies, though the river is but a large stream at this point in its journey.

I pay $10.00 each month to keep the email address I have had for 20 years. brenfroe@ .....

I get mail once a month or so referring to our Powell pages and yesterday I received an email from a 69 year old retired fire fighter from Taylorsville, KY. They never left he said. He sent his phone number and we talked and I enjoyed so much finding another cousin. His grandmother was Mary Powell, daughter of Lewis. She married Thomas Martin and came to Mo. and died there. He knows all the spots and names well. Not as we do as names in our history but places he has visited and has kinfolk still living. One of his grandmother's was a Young. Related to the one who married Matilda Hilton's sister. One of his Young's of this family settled in Mo. One of the daugher's married a Truman...and had a son--Harry S.

Our cousin's name is Bobby Smith. He is just now learning to use a computer. I could have told him there was hope for him to get it down...because Patsy is now a pro!