Yep, Rebecca, I do have some in the Peacock stuff and also have been in touch with the wife of a McAshan who is a descendant of the McShans. The spelling was changed. Will give you that e-mail address on private correspondence. Henry Hardy Peacock was the brother of my husband's great grandmother, Harriet Elizabeth. The Nancy Rebecca Peacock who married Jesse Nicholson was another sister. Two of the CHILDREN of Henry Hardy are shown below: (Yes there were two Henry Hardy Peacocks) By 1900, Jesse Thomas Peacock and his brother Henry Hardy had gone into business together as retail merchants in Winchester. After their father's untimely death, so the story goes, they paid their stepmother Lula Johnson Peacock to get out of town because none of her stepchildren wanted her around. At any rate, she vanishes after 1900. On his World War I draft card, Hardy is shown as suffering form a stiff right leg; perhaps that or some related physical condition kept him from getting married. Jesse and Henry prospered as both merchants and landowners; by 1957, there were at least 640 acres in the names of "Peacock Bros." or "Hardy Peacock & Bro." Jesse himself raised cattle and grew cotton on the land, in addition to running a country store. He was a horseman who "rode tall in the saddle," his son and namesake recalls. He and Katie (Breedlove) Peacock (Jan.9, 1974-Dec. 10, 1900, daughter of Alpheus D. Breedlove and Ann MYHAND) had only one child, who died with her mother. By Adelia Smith (July 12, 1880-July 9, 1935, daughter of Edward Tucker Smith and Mattie McShan of Lincoln County), Jesse was the father of Nannie Lee (Dec. 18, 1905-Nov. 18, 1972, m. John William Staudinger), an unnamed son (Dec. 12-20, 1906), Martha Elizabeth (Dec. 1, 1907 - never married), Mary Ruth (Nov. 26, 1909, died young), an unnamed daughter (Feb. 26-Mar. 12, 1912), Jesse Thomas (Oct. 5, 1913, m. Mary Pearce, June 13, 1936), Henry Edward (Oct 22, 1915, m. Viola Mae Borchert, Dec. 22, 1940) and Herman Paul (Nov. 7, 1917, m Martha Lucille Srygley, Mar. 23, 1941). To answer your question a while back....Paul is still living. Carolyn jhaisty@tcac.com -----Original Message----- From: rdea <rdea@seark.net> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 12:39 PM Subject: [ARDREW-L] McShan >Carolyn or anyone....have any info on this family? >Lived at Collins a while before moving to Lincoln Co. >Believe connected to peacocks someway. >Rebecca >