Source: Ben Stansell, SALISBURY POST, 11/12/20

Ben Knox was surprised when a pair of strangers turned up at his family’s farm several years ago after traveling far and wide to visit the rolling hills and open fields where they’d traced back their family’s roots. “A couple got out (of their cars) and said 'We’re from so and so and we know that our such and such granddaddy came from this place right here,’” Ben Knox recalled. “I told them, 'Well boy that’s interesting.’ We talked for a good little while and I told them I’d be happy to show them around.”

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