Caroll County and Rockingham/Greene County Connection?

Hey Stephen,

I'm excited about going back out to Frances Shiflett's property for another hike.  Have you tried contacting anyone that was a part of the documented hike to the Hill/Shiflett/Powell cemetery back in 2000 (per the H/S/P web site:  http://www.mycemeterysite.com/hsp/hsp2index.htm)?  I'd bet those people could provide some tremendous insight into the property and its history.

I was just looking through the list of burials in the Evergreen Church Cemetery here: http://www.mycemeterysite.com/evergreen/evrgrnindex.htm, and I found an interesting name on one of the stones.  Take a look:  http://www.mycemeterysite.com/evergreen/images/shiflet/floyd_mildred.JPG.

What do you think the chances are that Floyd Allen Shiflett could have been named after Floyd Allen of Carroll County (executed in 1913)?  Based on the birth date of Floyd Allen Shiflett's wife, I'd put him being born right around 1900...Floyd Allen of Carroll would have been close to 50 years old at that time.  I know it's a stretch, but could there have been some kind of connection between the Carroll County Allen's and the folks in the mountains of Rockingham and Greene Counties back in those days?  Is it possible that they were running alcohol up and down the mountains of western Virginia?  It is known that illegal distillers were very common around the turn of the century in Carroll County, VA.  And it is suspected that the Allen family...particularly Sidna Allen...earned a pretty good living producing and distributing illegal alcohol.

Could this 'trade route' be the link to why/how Frances Shiflett ended up going from Carroll County "back to" Rockingham County, as George Allen's account states?

Just a thought. Let me know yours.

--Russ