HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "If you can't stand the skeletons, stay out of the closet" - Val D Greenwood Folks, I am comfortable with the kids I've attached to Tom/Wilm with one exception - Edward of PendletonCo, SC. His attachment has always been weak on evidence but still made a certain amount of sense lacking better records. Putting my concentration on him in the past day or so, checking his records, and looking at the lifestyles of Ed and Tom's much different families, I am now convinced that there is more weight to him not being a son of Tom. We know that he was in PendletonCo in 1800 and may have died pre-1810. At that time this was "Indian country" and the last stronghold of the Cherokee, a bit wilder and less civilized country. We know he had at least 2 sons born before 1800 and one of those sons appear to be Russell, the other is likely Daniel (2 names quite unusual within the larger Hatcher family). Both of these men were found in the 1820 Pendleton census (but neither found in 1810). It is also possible he had a son, Ebenezer, who first pops up in the 1830 ElbertCo, GA census but with one caveat. Ebenezer's DNA results show he is not a blood Hatcher. IF Eben is Ed's son, it could indicate Ed also was not a Hatcher. But Eben could also be the son of one of Ed's 2 daus born pre-1790. Whether any of this thinking holds water may be forever impossible to prove, one way or the other. I will be detaching Ed from Tom/Wilm as soon as possible. Because of a certain entanglement of records between Ed and Wm/Pris, I know I will be left with some puzzlements in Wm/Pris's family based on very unclear Bible entries. But that's another problem...........! Nel