Trish Boehm, Saw your post to Ethel yesterday. I am tracing Gordons who settled into either Limestone or Madison county in 1816. What I know is that they described themselves as from "Huntsville, AL." Although the 1820 AL census is spotty at best, there is info about Limestone and Madison counties. It looks like my folks were probably in Madison, but it also looks like one of them may have been in Limestone. If I recall correctly, there was some shifting of borders between the counties back then. At any rate, my 3great-grandfather, Hugh Gordon, came to AL in 1816 from South Carolina. James Gordon, his son, and my great, great grandfather was born in 1818. These two and their families (at least) left AL in about 1842 or 1843 and settled in northern Mississippi, in Tippah county, for about 5 years before moving on to Arkansas for about 10 years and then into middle Illinois in Clinton and Bond counties. I am wondering if you would know if we might have northern Alabama ties. Could these Gordons in Limestone and Madison counties have been related? Bill Gordon