Hi Brenda......good to hear from you!!! We just returned from vacation up the west coast to Vancouver and back....glad to be home, but had a marvelous vacation. You've been busy and what a good job putting together the information you have found. Here's hoping someone with addition data will respond to some of your queries, etc. Wish I had the answer. I do have a BOOTH that married into an Overstreet line, which I have never done anything about. Perhaps both will be related. I'll have to get busy and see what I can learn about mine. When those "Indian" stories get passed down, there's usually some element of truth in them.... however, it's often difficult to determine. My nephew's been dreaming about his indian blood mixes and finding more and more intermixed relatives. They are extremely hard to trace since there were few records kept of them.....except in family lore and Bibles, land records and the like. They had no rights and those few records. I would be willing to bet that the Nancy Boothe in 1870 Tattnall is Hiram's wife. It's quite apparent that Hiram's age is hard to determine!! 33/1850; 50/1860; 40/1870; and 80/1880!!!! One would assume that he was born sometime 1800-18830....which is quite a span!!! One could forgive 10 yrs, but 30 yrs???? Of course, it all depends on "who" gave the information to the census taker.....if it were children....well, my own children sometimes have a hard time with our ages. Once one of our sons said: "You can't be that old, it's too old!" when he was too young to realize we were "old" compared to him!! Any luck going the "Cato" route? Am I to deduct that Warren BOOTH, 11/1850 was born in Ware Co? and in 1850 they are living in Telfair Co? Sounds a bit odd, don't you think? Not impossible, just odd. Then the baby girl Mary 2/1850 was born in Telfair Co. Perhaps land records might reveal something about this family. Have you checked deed records in Telfair and ?Ware (might not exist) to see when and where Hiram might have owned land? I have a Redden METTS from Telfair Co, for whom I am trying to identify a wife....some branch of the descendants say she was Indian!! I haven't a clue yet, but found some of his youngest children in FL after his death, with a mother named Eady or Edith. A descendant says she was a SAPP...but nothing to prove either as yet. Apparently there was more intermixing of Indians in that area for some reason. Those girls must have been beautiful.....OR....traded for???? Well, enough. Glad you're still at it. I'll let you know if I come across anything. Oh yeah, did you check the microfilmed census for 1860? I discovered missing children in a family once, and they were listed....but there was a blank page in the census, then the 2 children listed ....with no surname... at the beginning of the next page!!! Have a great day!! I'm off to a funeral and then to serve on staff at the small LDS Family History History Center here in Peoria. Keep looking, Nancy in AZ