Donna, thank you for your work desiminating the ELDRIDGE genealogy. Have you checked TENNESSEE COUSINS by Worth S. Ray? He is also author of LOST TRIBES OF NORTH CAROLINA. These books are old. I only have access to Tenn. Cousins but on page 373 he lists the 1830 census for Monroe county and one of the residents "THOMAS ELDRIDGE between 30 & 40 & he must have come down out of old Brunswick Co. Virginia to East Tenn." Could he have meant N. carolina instead? Page 453 lists "SIMEON ELDRIDGE from N. Carolina, revolutionary soldier living in Roane co. Tenn." Then on page 552, he writes about the ELDRIDGE family of Overton Co. Tenn. Three - Sampson, John and Zaachariah. Again he states that they came from Brunswick, Va "of old Prominent families" Further, the author mentionS JUSTINIAN COOPER. For anyone tracing these connections, I would suggest getting the book.