Family Legend

My Great Great Grandpa, my paternal grandmothers grandfather, George Cunningham was from Berryville, Va. My great aunt Virginia claimed they owned a lumber mill in Berryville. Eddie Cunningham, George’s son joined the army and was stationed in Texas.  Virginia said he was disinherited for giving up the family business and going to Texas. She sometimes exaggerates, so I investigated if they owned this mill or not. On the Morman geneology website I found out that George was just a laborer in the mills. Later on, Eddies brother Douglass was listed as a clerk at the mill. In the family album there is a business card that says he runs the mill but he was probably the manager. Perhaps he did wind up owning the mill but that I can’t confirm. Eddie’s father, however never owned a lumber mill.