Hi Deanna & other fellow BYERS researchers, First, let me apologize for sending my family info without the location yesterday - the Moses A. BYERS (1824 TN to 1898 TN) I have found was in Wilson Co TN (about 40 miles east of Nashville) in a community then known as Henderson Crossroad and now called Norene, TN. The closest city of any size is Lebanon, TN 11 miles to the north of this area. I suspect my Moses (born 1824) was named after the Moses Bumgarder BYERS listed below (born in NC in the late 1700's,came from NC thru Greenville SC (1812) to Jackson Co TN which is between Memphis and Nashville (by 1815)and then on to Putnam Co TN (about 70 miles east of Nashville - largest city is Cookeville - a connection to his wife Elizabeth Cooke???).... The elder Moses B. BYERS was fathering children during the period when Moses A. BYERS was born (see Deanna's list below), but Moses A. is not among them. Does anyone know if Moses B (late 1700's) had a brother in the area or somewhere in TN in the early part of the 1800's? Also, does anyone have a "Sarah" married to a BYERS man in the early 1800's anywhere in TN? The family I am researching seems to have named all the children for older relatives. Moses A. Byers was born Aug 8, 1824 per his tombstone and in TN per 1870 census. His wife was Lucretia PRICHARD (Dec 16, 1832 to ????). The PRICHARD family is very well documented - not a "Sarah" anywhere in the bunch. Moses A BYERS & Lucretia PRICHARD had a daughter, Sarah A. BYERS, in 1850 who was married to C. L. ROBERTSON when she had twin daughters and died a week later at the tender age of 17 in 1867. All of these events with the exception of the birth of Moses A BYERS (1824) are known to have occurred in Wilson Co TN. The twins mentioned above were : S.Laura Robertson born Nov 23, 1867 in Norene, TN (Wilson Co), died May 30, 1882, buried in Prichard-Robertson Cemetery in Norene, TN (Wilson Co) M.Flaura Robertson born Nov 23, 1867 in Norene, TN (Wilson Co), Died Aug 26, 1896, buried in Prichard-Robertson Cemetery in Norene, TN (Wilson Co. She married about 1891 to James Henry White (his information: 1869 Warren Co TN - 1964 Davidson Co TN) M. Flaura and James Henry White's children: 1) Valeira White: born 9/5/1892 at Henderson Crossroad / Norene TN, married to Hubert Mayo from Watertown, TN, lived most of adult life in Orlando, FL, died 9/27/1971 in Orlando FL and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery there. 2) Freddie White: Died May 9, 1894 Aged 9 days, buried in Prichard-Robertson Cemetery in Norene, TN (Wilson Co) 3) Flaura White: born 8/13/1896 at Henderson Crossroad / Norene TN, married to Joseph Samuel Green on 11/17/1918 at Faulkner Chapel in Warren Co TN, lived entire adult life on the farm owed originally by her paternal grandfather, Wm White, in the Faulkner Springs community in Warren Co. TN. She died in 1981 in Hamilton Co, Chattanooga TN where one of her daughter's lived. She is buried at Smartt Cemetery in Warren Co TN. Renee At 10:40 PM 2/27/01, Deanna Thomas wrote: >Hi, Renee - Would this bunch be any connection? Mrs Elizabeth Cooke Byers >took out a widow's pension in your Cooke Co., TN. Let me know - Deanna > >Moses (Bumgarner) BYERS & Elisabeth COOKE > Children: > > Osborne Washington BYERS, b. 1812 at Greenville, SC;m. Permila > FOSTER > Elias Harrison BYERS, b. 1815 ay Jackson Cty, TN;m. Elizabeth > KINNARD > Malinda BYERS, b.1818, TN;m.Samuel PATTON > Oliver Perry BYERS, b. 1820. TN;m. Nancy PIPPEN > Andrew Nelson BYERS, b. 1822,TN;m. Nancy FINN > Alexander Watson BYERS, b. 1825, TN;m. Elitha GRIMES > Amanda BYERS, b. 1827, TN;m.Thomas KINCHLOW > Emily BYERS, b.1829,TN;m. Marion GRIMES > Leonidas Cooke BYERS, TN;m. ? > Aljanon Sidney BYERS, b. 1835, TN;m. Nancy KINNARD > Richard Fielding BYERS, b. 1837, TN;m. Tabitha Rosina HARRIS & > William Jasper BYERS, b. 1840, TN;m. Seta Marlissa BRADFORD