Marilyn, I'm glad the info helped you!!! That's what sharing data is all about. I found AKINs in Maurey Co., TN....I'd never looked there before either...looks like some of our VA AKINS migrated there. Anything you find...keep posting it to our AKINS-List...take care, CAT marilyn ball wrote: > Thank you Carol: > > I believe you have given me a breakthrough in my Brick wall on my Eakins > family. I had not searched Rutherford Co, NC and this seems to be a > hope. In the 1840 Monroe County, TN census, I found Thomas Eakins with > a family of wife, 2 sons and 3 daughters. Then in 1850 when the census > have blessed us with names, he appears with a wife Jane. Unfortunately > the daughter in my line is Nancy Eakins who marries Johnston Howard in > July 1847. We also have Hix, Sloan and Walker in Monroe County which > marry siblings in my Howard line. Again I say thank you for being so > generous with your time. > > Johnston and Nancy Eakins Howard > George Sater and Mattie Donohoo > Howard > Jacob and Bertha Howard Moser > Guy Vernon and Ella Jeane > Mathes Moser > me > > Marilyn Moser Ball > > > Eakin, Nancy married Mclean, Robert on 07 May 1791 in Guilford County > > Eakin, Margaret married Sloan, James on 16 Aug 1791 in Guilford County > > Eakin, George married Melton, Sally on 14 Jan 1810 in Rutherford County > > Daves, Jane married Eakins, Thomas on 03 May 1798 in Rutherford County > > Eakins, Samuel married Hix, Polly on 19 Feb 1803 in Rutherford County > > Eakins, John married Walker, Sally on 16 Aug 1808 in Rutherford County > > Eakins, John married Walker, Sally on 16 Aug 1808 in Rutherford County > > Eakins, Elizabeth married Hicks, William G. on 20 Aug 1816 in Rutherford > > County > > Eakins, Elizabeth married Walker, David on 12 Mar 1817 in Rutherford > > County> -- Carol Ann "CAT" TINDELL, Jacksonville, FL Email: <catindell@geocities.com> CC for GA GenWeb: Fannin Co. - Lumpkin Co. - Hall Co. - Union Co. AND CAT's Southern Genealogy, all located @: <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Village/8499/>