Ever wanted to know who lived where and next to whom, kinda ??? Then check out the County Court Minutes (or Road Records in your local county). The 'local courts' were responsible for making and maintaining roads early on. The County Courts would appoint and "overseer" <generally the person who convinced the court that a road was necessary, and generally it was to his property and benefit"> who would be charged with rounding-up the local property owners <who benefitted from the road> and getting them to work on building or maintaining it at NO pay. The Court usually listed the property owners along the road in order. So if you can find a starting or ending point for a road in the records, such as below, you such be able to determine not only who but also in which order they lived on the road. Because I happen to know from other records where Gilbert McKenzie lived on the Point Mason Road, I can deduce that John Pierce & Rachel Ross lived nearly 4 miles out of Big Sandy on the Point Mason Road. Going toward Big Sandy then would be J.R. Thompson, Thomas Collier, Gilbert McKenzie, William Lee McKenzie, Robert Graham, Hiram Pierce & Kizziah Greer, William Glick, James Glick, Josiah Hobson and William Greer. Problem is you can't tell where the overseer, Henry Melton, lived unless you look at other road records where he was not the overseer, and that I will leave up to you to do. Wonder if the 'Mile Trees" along these roads still are standing ?? Any thoughts ??? Dave >From the Benton County, County Court Minutes, January Term 1849: "Issued Jan 8th: On Motion it is ordered by the Court that Henry MELTON be appointed overseer of the Point Mason road to work from Sandy Bridge to the 4 Mile Tree, hands as follows; W.J. Greer, Josiah Hobson, James Click, Wm. Click, Hyram Pearce, R.M. Graham, WM. L. McKenzie, Gilbert McKenzie, Thomas Collier, J.R. Campbell, John Pearce and all other hands in the bounds shall work under Henry Melton on said road which is established in the 2nd Class."