In July you asked about Hezekiah Byrd who married Mariah Monk. I have not found either of the above, however, I have learned that the Byrds and Monks were closely associated, and that there were other marriages. David E. Byrd, b. 1805, NC, (son of William Byrd & Lovey Cherry) m. Nancy Monk in 1835. An excerpt from the Hardin Co. Tennessee Historical Society quarterly Vol.IV, Oct-Dec. 1986 as follows: Some Notes on Interrelated pioneer Batchelor, Cherry, Monk, and Byrd families of Hardin County Tennessee- - " Among the early settlers of the southwestern portion of Hardin County, Tennessee, were the interrelated Batchelor, Cherry, Monk, and Byrd families. These families intermarried in complicated ways in Hardin County and for generations previous to their settlement in Tennessee. It is interesting to note as well that several of these families were already closely linked from their settlement in southeastern Virginia in the 17th Century. It is not unlikely that some of these families had ties which went back to England." It goes on to say: "Among the very early settlers of Hardin County was Strawhorn or Strayhorn Monk. He appears in the county court records as early as Jan 8, 1822, as one of the several jurors appointed to lay off a road from Horse Creek to the Wayne County line. Some confusion surrounds his identity in the records of thecounty. In his #Early History of Hardin County,", P>M> Harbert states: "in the vicinity now called Pickwick, the white men found a rather prosperous tribe of Indians whose chief was called Strawhorn Monk. He is said to have had large possessions of horses and other property; this lot of Indians was unusually friendly to the invading white man." (47) It does not in fact seem likely that Strawhorn Monk was an Indian, nor was he in the county prior to the arrival of the "white men". (and women) who settled the county. Strawhorn Monk appears on the 1810 census in Martin Co., North Carolina. Perhaps the unusual given name Strawhorn suggested Indian blood to Mr. Harbert; however, this is a family name found in southeastern Virginia, and is probably a phonetic spelling of the Scottish name Strachan. In any case, according to the census date, Strawhorn Monk was born circa 1787 in North Carolina, and he appears to have died in Hardin County sometime between 1850 and 1860. By the latter date, all of his known children had moved to the Pine Bluff area of Jefferson County, Arkansas, or to Hot Spring(late Grant) Co9unty, Arkansas, His children by Talitha Cherry have been give (sic) above. At present the parentage of Strawhorn Monk is not known." If any of this is new information to you, I hope it helps. Bettie