It was located on Hickory Ridge near Kirbyville.

He bought a 160 acre Taney County homestead paying a $14 government fee. He had sixteen dollars when he arrived in Forsyth, Missouri. When he had saved a little money, he started West again. Consequently, he stopped in Tennessee and worked in a sawmill for two years. The Confederate money he carried was worthless and he had little that was negotiable. He left North Carolina for two major reasons: he was unpopular with his relatives because he quit the Quaker Church, and he was unpopular with his wifes family because he refused to fight in the Civil War. His original name had been Piggett, but when the family left North Carolina in a wagon drawn by a pair of mules he changed his name to Pickett. My great-great-grandfather, David Hadley Pickett, came to Taney County from Alamance County, North Carolina, via Tennessee, in July, 1868. Southern uplanders gradually left Appalachia and others migrated down the Ohio River corridor. The boom in railroad construction and visions of new lands rich in resources attracted many to the Trans-Mississippi West. Following the great internecine conflict of 1861-1865, Americans were on the move.

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