I am researching the McMurry, Byars and Edwards families in Blount County. I have a lot of information on McMurry and Edwards but not much on Byars. I would like to contact anyone working on these lines. I have some information that a West family is also connected in some way to my McMurry's but I have not been able to find a connection. I would like to contact anyone researching West. There are some West's buried near my McMurry's in Fairview West Babtist Church Cemetery near Hanceville. My biggest research problem is identifying Thomas McMurry's (he was born ca 1785 somewhere in TN and died after 1860 in Blount Co.) wife's name and where in Tennessee he migrated from to Blount County. He came to Blount about 1820. Any help. contacts on these families will be appreciated. Beth McMurry Clarke rclarke@erinet.com