Who were your GGGrandmother Martha Jenkins' parents and where in Habersham & when did they live? Also, do the names Caradine, Whisenant, or Meek(s) tie into your family at all or were they neighbors or fellow church mates of your Martha Jenkins? The reason that I ask all of these questions is because I am trying to find the parents of my 2nd Great-grandfather Caradine T. ("Jerry") Jenkins who was born in 1827 in either northeast Ga. or the Carolinas. He was living on the Jenkins farm in Habersham County in the 1840s when a wagon train of Whisenants from North Carolina came through on their way to Mississippi to settle in the newly opened lands of Choctaw Co., Miss. The Whisenant wagon train stayed in Habersham Co. for a brief time before continuing their journey and during that time young Caradine (about 18-20 between 1846-1848) met and fell in love with Martha Caroline Whisenant, then a 15-18 year old girl on the wagon train. After the wagon train left, Caradine couldn't get this girl out of his mind and so he left the Jenkins farm a week later to try to find her and catch up with the wagon train. He traveled at nights by foot to avoid the hot sun, and slept in the fields and under fruit trees for brief periods during the days and ate what he could forage along the road. Caradine arrived in Miss. a day and a night after the Wagon Train where he later served in a Miss. Battalion in the Mexican War, married Martha, built a home next to her parents Lawson Hanson Whisenant and Sally (Sarah) Yarborough Whisenant, and together with a few other families chartered Salem Methodist Church in Choctaw Co., Miss. which is still in existence today. I know that you do not know me from "Adam," and I thank you and our fellow readers on the Habersham Co. website list for reading my story, but I have literally struck out in over 6 years of exhaustive research for Caradine's parents in Ga. To my knowledge Caradine never again visited or contacted his family in Ga. after he left for Miss. He was also apparently either illiterate or only partially literate so they probably did not send letters to each other. But, the Whisenant family were quite literate and people with means. I know that the Whisenants located in Habersham Co. were cousins of these Whisenants and I believe that Lawson's family were visiting his sister (Barbara Whisenant who married her cousin Thomas Whisenant) and cousins as the reason for their staying in Habersham Co. for a spell. Also, Caradine and Martha named one of their children "William Littleton Meek Jenkins" who was my Great Grandfather. I know that there was a popular Reverend Littleton Meeks who started several churches in Harbersham and neighboring counties between 1807-1830, including Mud Creek Baptist. I have found a David and Susan Jenkins who were members at Mud Creek Baptist in the 1840s and who were originally from North Carolina. I have also found evidence that Thomas and Barbara Whisenant and David & Susan Jenkins lived in the southern part of Habersham Co., below Mud Creek Baptist and near the old Wagon Road that led east-west from North Carolina toward Ellijay and below the Cherokee Nation and the mountainous part of north Ga. Rev. Meeks also had a son by the same name who stayed at Mud Creek and was a leader of that church. Thank you all again for reading my dissertation, but I believe now the only way that I will ever be able to connect Caradine to his parents in Ga. is for someone who hears this story to match up something from their family's past such as a family bible or a matching story about him or matching family names. Thanks again, and I will look forward to hearing from anyone with any clues, info. or ideas. Bob