I just returned home from my Tennessee trip. No, I have not answered the eternal questions that continually plagues the Bottoms family of Rutherford County Tennessee; however, I have several bits of information that will shed a great deal of light (I believe) on our family. As time permits, I will transcribe some of it and post it. I spent a small fortune on copies of deeds, etc. but I thought this was perhaps my only chance to gather this information. I am sad to announce that time did not allow me to get copies of all deeds of related families, while I did get some; however, I did make notations of major details of the deeds. (The Rutherford County Clerk's office had to copy all my deed information and she was extremely slow (extremely nice and conscientious, however) Harvey