Up a Tree

Another one of Sharon's forebears, William Davis, has a small connection to history -- The Trail of Tears. I can't find much about the man, and in fact, the connection comes from a single line in a history of the Cash family written by one of their descendants. The writer noted that Davis drove a supply wagon on the trail.  But the point of most of these posts is to find where our ancestors intersect with history so I, and by extension anyone who reads these little posts, can review historical events we may not know so much about.  Unlike many of the previous posts, I remember learning about the Trail of Tears in my long ago history classes, but my recollections are dim and only tell me that it was about the forced removal of a number of Native American tribes to the West back in the 1800s. I've always connected this with the concept of Manifest Destiny.  The term "Manifest Destiny" was coined by a newspaper editor in 1845, so it has no direct connection with the ...