Okay you Birdwell researchers here's a mystery to be solved: According to a Roane County TN marriage record: Waddy Thompson to Patsy Birdwell, Feb 5, 1823. Signed by Waddy Thompson and Thomas Cox. Who does Patsy belong to? Is this Waddy Thompson a minister plenipotentiary in Texas to Mexico in the days of Sam Houston. His sister became the wife of Dr.. Richard Harrison of Greenville, or Spartenburg, SC and who was the son of Major Richard Harrison of the revolutionary war. This was listed on page 460 of Ray's "Tennessee Cousins". I have a number of listings of marriage records of Birdwells in Knox Co, Washington Co, Blount Co. and Davidson Co, Tennessee if someone is looking for an official citation of them. Effie