Tidbits

-  George Washington LARK left Russell County, Virginia with his oldest son Lenard approximately 1928.   They went to Parkton, Maryland where they found work on the Coniwingo Bridge on US 40.  George sent for his wife and family who left for Maryland a short time later.

 - Emory Kyle LARK was nicknamed "Dollar Bill". Kyle traveled from Kentucky to Baltimore, Maryland where his Aunt Virginia "Ginny" and Uncle George LARK lived.  Kyle always ask his Aunt Ginny for a Dollar Bill. Sometime she would give it to him and sometime she wouldn't. When the dollar bill was all spent (usually on moonshine) he would come back and ask Aunt Ginny for another dollar bill.  Kyle's young cousin, Scott LARK,  as a very young boy (who may not have been talking real well) asking Kyle  "Dollar Bill have you seen my sweater?" At that point Kyle started laughing and everyone openly called him "Dollar Bill".

- George Washington LARK left Russell County, Virginia with his family for a short time and moved to Claiborne County Tennessee looking for work in the mid-1920s.  In Tennessee they lived in tents with mud floors. 

-  Jacob THOMPSON  had 16 children from 1843 to 1873.    Jacob was said to be 100 years old when he died.