lololololllll :) My great grandmother's name was Liddy/Lydia Looney.She was born abt 1800/1810. She married Levi London in Maury Co., Tn on 1/22/1829. I don't know where she came from or who her parents were. I think there is a Looney graveyard around Henry Co? (I need to recheck this.) In the early 1800 there were a lot of Looneys in middle Tn. I've found several in Marshall, Maury, Lincoln Counties. Where were the indian lands in early 1800? I find 10 Looney men in this intruders list. Maybe one of you, with more knowledge of these things than me, will better understand by reading the following document. There are a lot of names, I only copied the name I'm looking for at the present. If anyone knows what this means, would you splain it to me? 2nd Petition To the Hoourable the Secretary at War: Your petitioners viewing the calamaious situation in which many of our citizens are placed owing to an order recently published by the agent for Indian affairs of the Cherokee Nation ordering all intruders on their land to remove by the first day of July 1819. Yor petitioners believing the same indulgence would be extended to them, as has been the constant practice to others in similar circumstances, induced them to settle on the lands lately ceded to the United States by the Cherokees north of Tennessee River, nor did the order ever make its formal appearance until the 19th of June of the present year leaving a removal impracticable if not imposssible. Your petitioners are poor but industrious farmers to deprive them at this season of the year of their hard earnings in the wilderness and thus leave them destitute where will your petitioners apply for bread to support their starving families? Its notourious that all improvements made by your petitioners add real value to the land, this order enforced, will, involve at least ONE THOUSAND families in total ruin! Nor will the evil end here. Your petitioners must subsist somehwere, they will thus become unwelcome guests to the frontier counties to beg [for they cannot buy] something for their little children. This measure if carried into operation will produce alarming effectsd. The Indians on the North of Tennessee are not desirous of having the settlers driven off the land, those being few in number, most of which have taken reservations and are good neighbours. Your petitioners knowing the lenity of their government and believing they will take our case into consideration will ever pray: Looney, Absolum Looney, Allen Looney, Benjamin Looney, Benjamin Looney, Isaac Looney, Isam Looney, Jessee Looney, John Looney, John Looney, William G.