I have several lines that have major connections to Jackson County. The three listed above are the ones that I am working on right now, but the list will expand. For this posting, I will concentrate on the Butlers. My earliest confirmed location for my Butler line is in Jackson County in 1860. At that point, my ggg grandmother, Ann Butler (maiden name unknown) shows up on the census as 50 years old, with no husband present and with five sons still at home: John Butler b. 1841 in GA Job Butler b. 1844 in AL George A. b. abt 1845 in AL Henry, b. abt 1847 in GA Charles W. b. abt 1850 in GA On the 1860 census and on several censuses thereafter, John Butler (my great grandfather) reported that both Ann and his father were born in SC. I have unconfirmed information from a distant cousin that Ann's husband's name was William Butler, and that he was born in SC about 1810. He died, probably in GA sometime before 1860. He married Ann ??, also from SC, sometime before 1841. The family apparently lived in GA prior to 1841, moved to Alabama before 1844, and moved back to GA by 1850. John Butler, my great grandfather, married Mary Elizabeth Pippen in Calhoun County, FL at the end of the Civil War in May, 1865. They lived in Calhoun County for the next 20 years, but returned to Jackson County to Homestead a farm. He died there August 17, 1899. Mary and her children continued to prove the farm, and she received the Homestead Grant in 1905. I would very much appreciate hearing from anyone with information about his family. Jack Butler