This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Searcy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wV.2ADI/222.1 Message Board Post: According to information received from a living relative...It is believed that Reuben Searcy (June 11, 1729, Virginia, Hanover Co.) was born in Hanover Co., Virginia, later moving to Granville Co., North Carolina where he played an important part in the state's early history. He became High Sheriff in 1764, and was always known afterwards as Reuben the Sheriff." Reuben's son, Bennet was a lawyer who was granted a license in Madison Co., Kentucky in 1789. Bennet went to Tennessee in 1789 with Andrew Jackon and Judge McNaire and was Attorney-General of Tennessee in 1813. Reuben's sons, Richard and James went to Arkansas in 1817 when Arkansas was part of the Missouri Territory. Richard (a bachelor) became very prominent and was honored in 1835 and 1837 by the State naming a Co. (SEARCY) and the Co. seat of White Co. (SEARCY) in his honor.