My most solid brick wall, once again: Sarah BARTON was b in NC, don't know what county, 29 Aug 1760; married, in Sullivan Co TN/NC, 30 Nov 1779, Joseph COLE, son of Joseph COLE and Ruth CROSS, who moved to the Holston River area around 1780; died around 1855 in Wilson Co TN. Her birth and marriage dates are from her application for a pension for Joseph's Revolutionary War service. The only other BARTON I can find in Sullivan Co at that time was a Thomas, who bought land in 1790; possibly the same Thomas was on the county tax list of 1796. I've researched the Isaac/Joshua line and the Thomas/David (Oldham) lines extensively without finding a connection, despite the fact that the LOONEY family settled on the Holston (David LOONEY's land was adjacent to Thomas BARTON's); and a John BARTON witnessed the will of Robert LOONEY in Botetourt Co VA in 1749; and LOONEYs and BARTONs connected elsewhere, notably in South Carolina. John Ottinger