HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld Folks, I've solved the mystery - most of it! Zachariah Duncan is the father of both Anderson and Mary Malinda who md James Duncan Hatcher. I found the deed of a land purchase for Zach with the Sec/Twp description. Then later, I found this same land being sold by Malinda, Anderson, Margaret, and another dau, Elizabeth. All the recs haven't been found but each is selling 1/7 of each parcel of land so we know 7 kids survived. Check out http://hatcherfamilyassn.com/getperson.php?personID=I215074&tree=UncHat for all the data collected for Zach and kids. Now that I know who this family is, tomorrow I will be transferring Zach et al, along with Robert L Hatcher, to the Quaker file. Don't yet know who Robert's daddy is but we've narrowed down the suspects! Linda - there's no Lewis Hatcher in the 1860 but there is a Lewis "Stadter" which if you try hard enough could be guessed as Hatcher. Nel