This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gardner-Chamberlain-Cates-Lott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mV.2ADI/604.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much, Johnny. This Gardner family from Scott twsp is very similiar to the James H. Gardner family listed on the Piney Fork twsp in 1860. I tried to find a connection with the Scott family but could not. My James H. Gardner m. Susan Cates and several of the off spring have names like the Scott family - who btw have a Gardner cemetery in the area. James H. and Susan Gardner of Piney Fork may have died between 1860-80; my grandfather Nathan Franklin Gardner b 1867 I believe lived with the Chamberlain family then moved down to Polk Co. with the Anderson family. In my early research it appeared that these two Gardner families who lived close to each other might be related but I just couldn't find a connection. Thank you so much for helping...I appreciate it. Janice Gardner K.