Hello Tanya, It is okay to be confused! For you and any else interested, I found the following which might help you in you GIST and maybe HART connection as well. From what you've posted you may be following the same Christopher GIST. David Moore Gist Family Home Page http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/i/s/David-M-Gist/index.html David Moore Gist [email protected] "I am researching particular lines of the GIST family originating with Christopher GIST who settled in Baltimore Co. MD about 1682. My branch of the family moved westward from Maryland to Virginia, then Kentucky, Tennessee and finally north Arkansas. I will be adding a chart to this page in the near future. Other families of interest are MOORE, MOSS and PINKSTON that settled in north Arkansas in ca 1850's." Now on some of your other questions. These ARE two separate Henry's in the information you have presented. Henry GIST and Henry CLAY. Henry CLAY did marry Nathaniel HARTs sister Lucretia HART. Since we last "talked" I have checked through some of my HART "stuff". The source you sited may have listed Henry "Clay" GIST (son of Nathaniel, brother to Anne who m. Nathaniel HART) with the incorrect middle name. I "think" that his name should be, Henry "Cary" GIST, not Clay. I don't have a copy of this source, but it is.... "Maryland Genealogies from the Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 2," Indexed by Thomas L. Hollowak, 1980, pgs. 504-512. MORE HART/GIST/CLAY, Etc. connections!! Now not to confuse you, but ... I believe that a grandson of Henry CLAY & Lucretia HART, Thomas Hart CLAY, (son of Thomas Hart CLAY & Maria R. MONTELLE) married Annie GRATZ, daughter of Benjamin GRATZ and Anna Maria BOSWELL. Now could ANNIE GRATZ, also a descendant from the GIST family? Sorry I don't have all these "connections" worked out, but the GIST descendants you listed, do seem to have some type of an association with the HART family and/or other famillies this HART family is associated with in Kentucky, to name a few.. BLACKBURN-BLEDSOE-BOSWELL-CLAY-GRATZ-CHURCHILL-SHELBY. I hope this helps some. Happy Holidays! Barb Johnson Seattle, WA. [email protected]