... my grandfather was named William Dale. Grandmother was a Barden before she married William Dale. I do not recollect her given name. After they were blessed with five children, grandmother died. The five children, three girls and two boys, were small. ... Grandfather Dale was born and lived the early part of his life in North Carolina. After the death of grandmother he moved and lived near Augusta in Georgia. ... After the children were pretty well grown they emigrated to East Tennessee, near to where father [John Wright], and I should have said Uncle Robert Wright, came — for they came together — In a few years Grandfather Dale married again, and emigrated to Fentress County. ...
