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Sources
1. Title:   The Woods-McAfee Memorial
Page:   p. 47, 295
Author:   Rev. Neander M. Woods, D. D., LL, D.
Publication:   Name: Courier-Journal, Job Printing Co., 1905;
2. Title:   Descendants of John McAfee Sr
Page:   Fifth Generation, Sixth Generation
Author:   Jenny Tenlen
Publication:   Location: URL http://www.halcyon.com/jennyrt/Register/RR_TOC.HTML;
3. Title:   The Irvines and Their Kin
Page:   p. 172
Author:   Compiled by L. Boyd
Publication:   Name: Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1908; Location: www.familytreemaker.com;
4. Title:   Historic Families of Kentucky
Page:   p. 80
Author:   Thomas Marshall Green
Publication:   Name: Cincinnati, 1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959; Location: Higginson Book Company, 148 Washington St., P.O. Box 778, Salem, Massachusetts 01970;
5. Title:   The McAfees: Kentucky Pioneers
Page:   Sixth Generation
Author:   Jenny Tenlen
Publication:   Location: http://jtenlen.drizzlehosting.com/Register/;

Notes
a. Note:   Of Mercer County, Kentucky. I believe that Priscilla's full name was Margaret Prescilla McAfee, as mentioned in the division of land document of Robert McAfee, dated September 4, 1849, on file in the Mercer County Court Annex. She, with her only child, perished in the burning of the steamboat, "Ben Sherrod," on the Mississippi river. Source: Historic Families of Kentucky, Thomas Marshall Green, 1889, page 80. On May 8, 1837, while racing the steamer PRAIRIE, the BEN SHERROD caught fire about 14 miles above Ft. Adams, MS. The deck and engine room crew were snockered on whiskey and the boilers became overheated and set fire to about 60 cords of resin-dripping wood. The forward section quickly became an inferno. The fire burned through the wheel ropes as the SHERROD continued upstream with no method of steering her to the bank. Hordes of people took to the water to escape the flames - people fought for floating objects - women and children were thrown aside by scoundrels trying to save their own skin. Ironically, the PRAIRIE didn't bother to stop and assist - she continued on to Natchez only to report that the SHERROD was on fire. The steamer ALTON, while racing to aid the stricken steamer, blundered through the water and succeeded in running down many of the survivors in the water. The fire continued to spread, next setting off (like a cannon) the barrel of whiskey that inebriated crew had been enjoying. Next, the boilers went off in a devastating roar. The final death-blow came when 40 barrels of gun powder exploded in a report that was heard for miles. The SHERROD accident was one of the finest examples of humanity at it worse - panic, greed and self-preservation. 72 people were reported to have died.

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