Hi Will, No, I haven't read Stott's article. I'm kinda binary in my research approach and haven't gotten to the newspapers yet. But,......... I have an unknown Alsup as the wife of Robert M. Graham and mother of Suzanna. Possibly his 3rd wife????? Any Graham researchers lend a hand here ???????? Dave ======================================= At 12:07 PM 7/18/99 -0400, you wrote: >Thanks, Dave, for the flurry of information. There are no McRaes in my line, >but my ancestor, Cooper Melton was the uncle of the Mathew Melton listed >below. Another Melton researcher, Sherry Arnold, has made a convincing case >that Mathew was Joseph Melton's son, not his brother and, like Joseph and >Cooper, Mathew was among the first to settle Benton County. What has >confused many of Mathew's descendants, is that Joseph and Cooper also had a >brother, Matthew (two "t's"), but it's proven that Matthew the brother lived >in Smith, later Warren County TN, and never lived in Benton. Mathew (one >"t"), son of Joseph, died young ( 36), and McRae became guardian to Mathew's >children, which included Chesterfield, Henry, Joseph C., and others. Joseph >C. married A. McRae's daughter Mary. After Joseph's death, she married >Robert Graham. I believe that when Mary died, Graham married Mary's sister, >Elizabeth Greer, and when Elizabeth died, took a third wife. Elizabeth must >have married a Greer; one of yours, Dallas? Much of this comes from a long >1982 letter from JKT Smith to Lillian Stott (the granddaughter of Joseph and >Mary McRae.) That year, Mrs. Stott published 10 articles of her family >memories in the Camden Chronicle. Have you seen any of that material? > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David L. Snow [SMTP:DLSNOW@worldnet.att.net] >> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 2:06 AM >> To: TNBENTON-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TNBENTON-L] Greer & Melton >> >> Hey Will & Dallas, >> >> Remeber A. McRae who lived next to Chesterfield Melton on the Point Mason >> Road ??? Check this out: >> >> County Court Minutes - July Term 1846: >> >> "Personally appeared in open Court Alexander McRae guardian of Minor heirs >> of Mathew Melton deceased and together with him W.J. Greer and Wm. D. Hyer >> his securities who appeared in open Court and acknowledged the due >> execution of their bond in the penal sum of seven hundred dollars >> conditioned as the law directs." >> >> You got McRae's in your line, Will??? >> >> Dave >