Errors in Text of The Bear Grass, A History:

• pg. 10 -a footnote to the reference to Ambrose Powell on this page can be added on pg. 1 2 to the effect that Ambrose Powell was the great grandfather and name sake of the famed Confederate General A. P. (Ambrose Powell) Hill-Hassler, William Woods -A. P. Hill. Lee's Foraotten General E467.1 .H56 H3 1957 pg. 6.  

• pg. 16- picture caption "buried".  

• pg. 20 -not an error, but additional information -Blackmun, Ora Western North Carolina to 1880 Dg. 50-52 -in 1673 General Abraham commanded Fort Henry at Petersburg, Va. and sent James Needham to explore beyond the mountains and he took an indentured servant named Gabriel Arthur along. He was left with the Overhill Cherokee as a hostage and was adopted as a son by a chief and was taken hunting into Kentucky, thus becoming the first European to travel the Wilderness Trail into Kentucky - a year later he returned to Fort Henry -it was 20 years before another white came again to Kentucky. 

• pg. 22 -"route 606" should be 707 -first paragraph.

• pg. 28 -there should be a foot note attributing the route having gone over Wilson Hill and on to Rt. 667 to Peter Chance, Sr., Bashie Kincaide, and to the Thomas Walker Year Book of 1979-80 pg. 13, which says "The Silver Leaf Nursery began in the early 1800's when Eli Davis grafted apple trees for himself and his neighbors. The business was developed by his sons James and Columbus. The story goes hat Daniel Boone stopped to rest at a nearby spring and called the place "Silver Maple". Mr. Davis however, preferred "Silver Leaf' and named it accordingly." The source listed is 'Lenowisco, Historic Homes of Lee County.' The topo map f~r Rose Hill quad shows a "Silver Leaf Church" on route 667 -this confirms that Boone travelled on 667. 

• pg. 29 -Martin's Station should end in a lower case n rather that N.

• pg 29 -Fort Chiswel is in Wythe County, not Smith.

• pg. 34 -bottom picture-on pg. 8 of Thomas Walker Year Book of 79-80 a picture of this house is captioned "a Jog house located on the Nursery Road and was purchased in 1878 by Samuel Brooks from 'Balyor and Daugherty'. The date 1837 is carved in the chimney."  

• pg. 38 note 10 "Sketches".  

• pg. 53 -according to Grace Steele Woodward's The Cherokees on pg. 89 Dragging Canoe was the son of Attakullaculla (Little Carpenter) and not of Oconostota. 

• pg.59 -footnote 8 pg.# is 8. 

• pg. 71 -Clyde Hobbs is the great grand son on Absolum Hobbs, not Job, and  Absolum Hobbs was on the Benge Raid but is mistakenly listed as Abraham. Also correct the name on page 67.

• pg. 76 -In 1772 Botetourt County was divided into Fincastle and Botetourt (pg. 130 History of Washington Co by Summers). In 1774 Montgomery was split off .  

• pg. 99 3rd line "Southwest".  

• pg. 104 -last paragraph -according to Judge Williams this was really two separate actions ie 1863 the court house burned; and 1864 the battle of Jonesville in which a cavalryman froze to death in the saddle.  

• pg. 105 C The date is 1863, not 1868.

• pg. 108 -Additional information of the Canoe Rock House from Virgil Patterson gotten 7-1 ~96 -Built 1774 by unknown; bought about 1790 by James L Boggs who sold it about 1805 and either directly or indirectly the Richmond's got it, and they intermarried with the Flanarys', who were the last owners.

• pg. 116 2nd pg., line 8 "established" .

• pg. 133 -Judge Williams disputes Hawthorne's implication that the judges who were appointed by Slemp were Republicans -he says the judges were all democrates -actually neither Hawthorne nor I said what party the judges were, only that they were the appointees of Slemp and that they leaned toward the Boomers against the older property owners.  

• pg. 137 -sentence confusing as it could be interpreted as Ayers managing the senatorial campaign for the democratic candidate, when what is meant is that he was the senatorial candidate.  

• pg. 143 -Judge Williams says the election was for congress and not the Senate.

• pg. 143 -3rd paragraph -5th line -"tracked".

• pg. 143 -"Ayer's Chapel" of E. 4th Ave. and Church SI., BSG is on land donated by Ayers, and is named after him, according to Ralph Giles.  

• pg. 151 -photo caption -the individual in uniform is not Fox, but is Dr. William Cabell Moore and the occasion is the funeral of Fox - source Barbara Polly.