This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/704.1.1 Message Board Post: Heard County being formed in 1830 I guess is overlooked and they lived in what became Heard County. Funny, I never thought about it. If you would like information on the Cheek Family, I did and asked and also found the following site in which I am totally into checking the informatioin and trying to resolve the Franklin thing, Franklin County, Georgia/Franklin in Heard County and I think there is also a Franklin in at least one more state. It has my mind spinning. http://www.moonzstuff.com/Cheek/index.html Sarah Ann Cheek and Lucius J.M. Bell are included in the information but not much on them. The rest gets complicated. There is also a Cheek Book that is going to be published, limited to 500 copies. I wonder if it will have more on Sara and Lucius. There were people living in the Heard County area back when the Indians were there and before the government took their land and gave it to people in the Land Lotteries, at least two gave the land to white families. My Lancaster ancestors got land in the 1827 Land Lottery.