Diane, I agree, except now would be a good time for me to add that I am descended from Elijah Benson Dover b. 1817, and I don't think that he is the Benson named by Jesse Green. Yes, I know that he has been listed by DAR and SAR, but if you look very carefully at FJD census records, there is never anyone listed in his age group in the household of FJD. Same for Jarrett Nelson Dover who is listed and even younger than my EB. I believe, and may never be able to prove, that they are the sons of Johnson Dover/Hulda Cross. Both of them fit the census records of Johnson. My EB was even living next door to Johnson on the 1850 census, which of course, doesn't prove anything either :-( I am not disputing that Benson and Nelson may have been sons of FJD, just the ones that have been attached as sons, would seem more likely grandsons. In all my years of researching this, I have only run across one other researcher in my own line that had done an in depth study of FJD. She had already reached the same opinion that I was forming at the time. Why is there so much information on Anderson and Wm Simpson, but little or nothing is known about Johnson, who apparently never left Habersham Co? I've tried finding someone in Cross and Goodson, hoping that maybe some of them had some kind of record. That hasn't worked out either. It does look like Anna Goodson and Matilda Goodson were sisters. There is a probate on Jarrett Nelson Dover that lists kids, but absolutely nothing so far to suggest who Johnson's kids were. I have about run out of ideas. Anybody have any suggestions? Jesse never mentioned that these sons lived to be adults, either. Sure wish he'd filled in more blanks while he was at it!!!! Sharon S