The Woods-Mcafee Memorial, Containing An Account of John Woods And James Mcafee of Ireland, And Their Descendants in America
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Fleming, and Andrew Woods, all no doubt neigh- bors and friends — a "neighbor" in that day may have meant a man who lived twenty miles away. The life of the McAfees on Catawba Creek was, of necessity, a frontier life; for Indian depredations did not finally cease along the New River and its tributaries till the close of the eighteenth century, lasting as long as they did in Kentucky. As late as 1768 John McAfee, second son of James, Sr., waj killed by Indians somewhere on Reed Creek not far fro...m where it empties into the New River in Wythe County. A careful study of the map in this volume entitled "The Parting of the Ways," will reveal the historic interest which the neighliorhood of the McAfees possesses. At no other spot in the whole South was there ever such a remarkable con- vergence of important highways prior to the days of railroads. The focus of all these roads was the supply store at Draper's Meadows, twenty-five miles south-west of James McAfee's home on the (Jatawba. Here most of tiie early explorers and hunters liound for the Kentucky wilderness ren- dezvoused.
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