Hi, I recently uncovered some very interesting information relating to the above families. I know the family of Peter COFFEE, Sr. and Sarah SMITH are tied to the HEARD, DANIEL, BRYAN and RANDALL families and the DANIEL family of Greene County, GA is also tied to the BURNEYS, also of Greene and later, Morgan County, GA. What I did not know until recently was the DANIEL family of Greene County, GA (Thomas DANIEL, Jr. married Sarah BURNEY, d/o Simon) was this DANIEL family was also a part of the Thomas DANIEL, Sr. and Elizabeth LANIER family of Tyrrell County, NC -- the ancestors of most of the GA DANIEL family. This DANIEL family also has links to the LANE family of Craven/Jones County, NC through the BRYANS -- a Penelope BRYAN (1733-1794) married a Levin LANE (ABt 1730-1790). As most also know this BRYAN family is also the same BRYAN family that migrated to Thomas County, GA - the Hardy BRYAN bunch. Also, this DANIEL family has links to Burke County, GA because more than one of the children of Thomas's brothers, Ens. Aaron DANIEL RS-SC of Cheraw District, SC and Capt. Robert Lanier DANIEL of Pitt County, NC, migrated through Burke County, GA on their way to other locations and one of these locations was Thomas County, GA. In my DANIEL bunch of Burke and later, Jefferson County, GA, I have links to three places -- North Carolina, Morgan County and Thomas County, GA. The VALLOTTON family of Burke County, GA has stated the ancestors of my DANIEL bunch from Burke County, GA were a Robert C. DANIEL (ABt 1765-AFT 1830) and a Penelope LANE (1773-1846). I have a copy of the 1846 obit of a Penelope DANIEL, as published in the SC edition of the Southern Christian Advocated, and it states she was the widow of Robert DANIEL of Burke County, GA and they had migrated to Burke County, GA in 1812 from NC. One of their sons, Robert W. DANIEL (1809-1865) married as his 4th wife, Mary Jane RENEAU (1830-1912) in 1852 in Jefferson County, GA. Her brother, Russell R. RENEAU (1832-1862) was in business with one of the BRYAN boys in Thomasville, where Russell was the owner and editor of the Thomasville paper (the Southern-Enterprise) before the CW. He died in the CW in 1862. However, his niece (the daughter of RWD and MJR) married John C. RICHTER, Sr. of Madison in 1872 and with this marriage this whole family has then gone full circle. Russell R. RENEAU also married a CHASTAIN girl in Thomasville in 1855 and she was the d/o of a John "Jack" CHASTAIN and a Mary CARLTON and I think her father, the Hon. John CARLTON of Thomas County, was part of the Henry and Thomas CARLTON families of Morgan County, GA. The key to developing this relationship came only after I figured out that the Thomas DANIEL, who married Sarah BURNEY, was a son of Thomas DANIEL, Sr. and Elizabeth LANIER of Tyrrell County, NC. Information from that family stated he married a BARNEY and one can see how the name BURNEY could be confused with the name, BARNEY. Then, and only then, the pieces of this puzzle started to fall into play. I still have not figured out, exactly, who was the parent of Robert C. DANIEL of Burke County, GA but I am now pretty certain he was out of this DANIEL family but his father could have been Thomas or one of his brothers, Aaron RS-SC or Capt. Robert Lanier DANIEL. So, the Alice Elizabeth DANIEL (1854-1924) who married John C. RICHTER, Sr. in 1872 was indeed a descendant of one of the founding families of Morgan County, GA - the BRYANS and the LANES and probably the WHITFIELDS, just like WT BACON (1869-1944), longtime publisher of the Madisonian, had stated in her 1924 obit. "Sorry WT" for ever doubting you. <grin> A UGA honor graduate, good journalist and close family friend, like you were, did know what you were talking about. John R. Clarke Feel free to visit my website at: www.outdoorwriter.com