I need some “geographical” help in Clarke Co., please. I’m trying to determine whether or not John TURNER, Sr., who bought 250 acres on Bear Creek in the county in 1829, might be related to my husband’s gt.gt.grandfather, John B. TURNER, who bought 204 acres on McNutt Creek in 1861. I have a map of Clarke Co. and have found McNutt Creek—a very long creek! The location of the TURNER place, as it was referred to in an 1896 deed in which John B.’s son, John E., was selling 200 acres to his brother-in-law, Samuel BAILEY, is described as being in Buncomb District near the town of Bogart and “lying in the Counties of Oconee and Clarke.” I’m not absolutely sure this is the same land as the 204 acres bought by his father, but John E.’s widowed mother was living on it in 1896. It sounds like the land John B. left in trust for his wife and children. Can anyone tell me where on the map to look for Bear Creek? If Bear Creek and McNutt Creek are on opposite sides of the county, I might decide there was probably no relation between the two TURNER families. Barbara Dooley Cullowhee, NC