Dear Ms. Howard et al., I forgot an important reference: John Witherspoon DuBose, Jefferson County and Birmingham Alabama Historical and Biographical 1887: Page 54: "After the year 1815, which was about the time of the first settlement of white persons in Jones Valley . . . The first settlers . . . Near the same time a colony from Rutherford County, Tenn., settled at the place now known as Woodlawn, a suburb of the new city. This party was composed of Williamson Hawkins, Thomas Barton, William Cowden, James Cunningham, probably Jonathan York [Barton married Susan York] and others . . . . " Bill Erwin