Jane,
When I was about 25 my girlfriend was reading an old library book about the Cathars and the crusade called by the Pope to wipe
them out.....She started reading the part aloud when the Cathars were hold up in the mountaintop fortress & I had this very strong sense
of Deja Vu......& I knew I had been a Cathar in a previous life....
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Why Davy Crocket went to Texas & died at the Alamo..
My maternal GGGGGGrandfather was a judge in Tennessee in the 1820s & 30s.....He hada large piece of land as did Davey Crocket...They both wanted the railroad to build tracks across their land because it meant a lot of money would come their way.......But Judge Sharp {my ancester} ..{by hook or by crook} won the day & Davey Crocket lost out & went to Texas and died at the Alamo....
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Judge Sharp had 6 sons & he divided up some of his land so that each son would have a farm of his own......But the 3 younger
sons were not happy with their share of the land.......These 3 brothers were married to 3 Harrison sisters who were second cousins of William Henrey Harrison,a president of the USA.......So in the middle of the night the 3 Sharp brothers & their Harrison wives & another unmarried Harrison sister stole all their father's & brother's mules + their own mules and left for Mississippi......{about 60 mules total}.....
When they got to Meridian ,Miss. they sold the mules and each bought a farm .....& lived long and prospered......
Some 25 years later one of their older brothers came down from Tennessee and they had a meeting in the back of a store in Meridian ..
The idea was to bury the hatchet & re-tie the family together.....But the 3 Sharp brothers ended up saying F*CK YOU to their older brother
& they never spoke to the Tennesses branch of the Sharp family again.....