Have you followed up on Hardaway Youngblood (aka Hardaway Dover)? "Index to Indian Wars Pension Files 1892-1926 Vol 1:A-K " page 419 transcribed by Virgil D. White shows: Dover, Hard alias Hardaway Youngblood SC - 2103 GA 27 Feb 1893 Cherokee War Service Has anyone in your group obtained a copy of this military record? Many times these records are full of gen. data and clues of places to look. Most had to be witnessed and often times the witnesses were relatives, in-laws, etc. Again, clues! Look at names around them. Like Samuel Zachary Dover on 1880 Izard Co, AR has his mother on one side of him and his father-in-law on the other side. By the way, his wife, Mary Ann Carpenter's parents were Lawson Carpenter/Sarah Causner. Look at each of Samuel's kids and who they married. Try to find names of parents for the spouses. Look at Sam's grandchildren and who they married. Compare the surnames and see if there is any connection. Sometimes they were marrying cousins, or people connected to relations. The early years, population was sometimes sparse, travel hard, so they md. neighbors or close to the same vacinity. I can see possibilities with the Carpenter name. There were Carpenters that md. into the early Col. Fred Hambright descendants - might be a possible connection to Mary Dover Hambright. Campbell is a name that I find extremely important in researching the early Dover. Elijah Dover b.ca 1770 and wife Mary were living with a Margaret Campbell on the 1850 York Co, SC census. Margaret was born ca 1800. Was she a daughter? Age would work. If Campbell is her md. name, who was she md. to? Does she have any kind of connection to Susan Campbell? Youngblood is another name I would explore. There might be someone in that line that has information on Hardaway and Susan the Youngblood widow. Sometimes taking a look at the allied families can find a wealth of info and clues! I have a great deal of data on some of the allied lines to Dover in the early Kings Creek area. I know Dennis does as well, and some of the others on the list. If you can gather some early names, like parents of Samuel's kids' spouses, there may be something that rings a bell, or might fit in with another line that would help make a connection of Samuel to an earlier line. Not a lot of concrete data has been formed on this Elijah Dover, but some of the names that are possibly connected are Robinson, Gordon, Kell, Allred, Lanier, Hartness and possibly some others like Wilson and Roman. Please keep us posted as you update. There may be something we can help you out with. Sharon S.